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Issue #195  12/4/2012
 
Bassenge Photography 452-Lot Auction to Be Held On Wednesday, Dec 5th

Bassenge Photography Auctions is holding its final sale for the year on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 in Berlin at 2 pm (photo books) and 3:30 pm (photographs) local time. The auction will offer 452 photography and photography book lots in one of its largest sales ever. Bassenge's Fall photography auction this season offers some very unusual 19th-century rarities, as well as beautiful vintage prints from later periods up to contemporary photo works, including a section of NASA photos.

Photographers represented in the auction:

Berenice Abbott, Leopold Ahrendts, Alinari, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Edouard-Denis Baldus, Roger Ballen, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Boris Becker, Bauhaus Photographie, Max Baur, Vanessa Beecroft, Sibylle Bergemann, "Berlin im Licht", Pierre Boucher, Samuel Bourne, Brassaï, Adolphe Braun, Hugo Brehme, Josef Breitenbach, Harry Callahan, William Carrick, Hans Casparius, Jewgeni Chaldej, Lucien Clergue, Charles Clifford, Louis de Clercq, Imogen Cunningham, Thomas Demand, André de Dienes, Robert Doisneau, Mario Dondero, Frantisek Drtikol, William Eggleston, Alfred Eisenstaedt, John Engstead, Hugo Erfurth, Elger Esser, Louis Faurer, Andreas Feininger, Nat Finkelstein, Hans Finsler, Arno Fischer, Trude Fleischmann, Marc Foucault, Klaus Frahm, Lee Friedlander, Francis Frith, Robert Doisneau, Sylvester Dutton, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Hugo Erfurth, Dimitri Ermakov, Frank Eugene, Hans Finsler, Arno Fischer, Robert Gerstmann, Ralph Gibson, Wilhelm von Gloeden, Frank Mason Good, René Groebli, Tony Grylla, Vincenzo Guarnera, Arvid Gutschow, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Ernst Haas, Robert Häusser, Philippe Halsman, Wilhelm Hammerschmidt, Robert Häusser, Raoul Hausmann, Konrad Helbig, Oiliver Herrmann, Jacob Hilsdorf, Candida Höfer, Rebecca Horn, George Hoyningen-Huene, Axel Hütte, Peter Hujar, Walde Huth, Dan Kane, Peter Keetman, Edmund Kesting, Heinrich Koch, Alberto Korda, Wolfgang Krolow, Germaine Krull, Erich Kukies, David Lachapelle, Lehnert & Landrock, Robert Lebeck, Herbert List, Manassé, Robert MacPherson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Charles Marville, Gordon Matta-Clark, Duane Michals, Max Missmann, Lucia Moholy, Albert Monier, Eckart Muthesius, Eadweard Muybridge, James Nachtwey, NASA Photographien, Nelly, Floris M. Neusüss, Richard Pare, Heniz von Perckhammer, A.W.A. Platé, Guglielmo Plüschow, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Bettina Rheims, Gerhard Riebicke, André Rival, James Robertson, Karin Rocholl, Varvara Rodchenko, Werner Rohde, Arthur Rothstein, Eva Rubenstein, Michael Ruetz, Thomas Ruff, August Sander, Jan Saudek, Charles Roscoe Savage, Karl Hugo Schmölz, Stefanie Schneider, Adolf Schneeberger, Toni Schneiders, Wilhelm Schürmann, Charles Scowen, J.Pascal Sebah, Friedrich Seidenstücker, Vittorio Sella, Stephen Shore, Julius Shulman, Anton Stankowski, Edward Steichen, Albert Steiner, Bert Stern, Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Ratenicz, Alex Stöcker, Sasha Stone, Jock Sturges, Kishio Suga, Wolf Suschitzky, Karin Székessy, Peter Thomann, Miroslav Tichy, Herbert Tobias, James Turrell, Josef Vetrovsky, Andre Villers, Ernst Volland, Albert Watson, Leni Werres, Weegee, Brett Weston, Klaus Wittkugel, Woodbury & Page, wowe, Yva, Walter Zadek und Willy Zielke.

Photo books by:

Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Lewis Baltz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Hans Bellmer, Aenne Biermann, Karl Blossfeldt, Pierre Bost, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, René Burri, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Larry Clark, Bruce Davidson, Roy Decarva, Frantisek Drtikol, William Eggleston, Sergei Eisenstein, Ed van der Elsken, Walker Evans, Oskar Federer, Peter Fischli und David Weiss, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, André Gelpke, Nan Goldin, John Gossage, Emmet Gowin, Werner Gräff, Paul Graham, Philip Jones Griffiths, Sam Haskins, David Heath, Candida Höfer, Horst P. Horst, Eikoh Hosoe, George Hoyningen-Huene, Bohumil Hrabal, André Kertész, William Klein, Germaine Krull, Helmut Lerski, Helen Levitt, Winston O. Link, Man Ray, Sally Mann, Mary Ellen Mark, Daniel Masclet, Ralph Eugene Meatyeard, Helen van Meene, Susan Meiselas, Eric Mendelsohn, Duane Michals, Richard Misrach, Ryuji Miyamoto, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Moi Ver, Sarah Moon, Daido Moriyama, William Mortensen, Takuma Nakahira, Ikko Narahara, Itsuro Naraki, Helmut Newton, Paul Outerbridge, Martin Parr, Irving Penn, Heniz von Perckhammer, Miroslav Peterka, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Sylivio Ray, Hans Richter, Leni Riefenstahl, Franz Roh, Willy Ronis, Paolo Roversi, Ed Ruscha, Lucas Samaras, August Sander, Michale Schmidt, Daniel Seymour, Tomatsu Shomei, Stephen Shore, Eugene Smith, Emanuel Sougez, Otto Steinert, Joel Sternfeld, Sasha Stone, Christer Strömholm, Issei Suda, Josef Sudek, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Larry Sultan, Rolf Tietgens, Umbo, Andy Warhol and Francesca Woodman.

Previewing for the auction is: Monday, Dec. 3, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. (CET), Tuesday, Dec.4, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., as well as by appointment. Auctions: Bassenge Photography and Photobook Auction 100, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, 2 p.m. (CET) for photobooks and 3:30 p.m. for the photography section. Previewing is at: Bassenge Modern Art Dept., Rankestr. 24, 1st floor, 10789 Berlin, Germany. And the auctions are at: Bassenge, Erdener Str. 5a, 14193 Berlin, Tel. +49 30 893 80 29 0.

On photography, contact: Jennifer Augustyniak at jennifer@bassenge.com ; on the photo books, contact Dr. Suzanne Royal at s.royal@bassenge.com . Both can be reach by phone at: + 49 30 219 97 277; fax: +49 30 219 97 105. Or the department can be generally reached at art@bassenge.com .

The catalogue can be ordered from the department, or can be seen online at: http://194.25.171.19/bassenge/en/lose.asp?lot=4067&c=O&hp=1 . Bassenge's home page can be found at: http://www.bassenge.com .