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ON PHOTOGRAPHY
VANESSA HALLETT Worldwide head of photographs and deputy chairman, Americas, Phillips
The most important sale you have done? This past year we presented The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation (JGS), which was assembled by JGS’s founder, Howard Stein. The sale featured rare and unique pieces by true masters of the medium, such as Eugène Atget, Edward Steichen, Imogen Cunningham and Robert Frank among many others, spanning from the beginning of photography to contemporary works. We set many records and to date it is one of the most impressive collections of photography to ever come to auction.
The most interesting piece you’ve sold? A triptych by famed photographer Helmut Newton called Walking Women, Paris, 1981, which sold for $905,000 in 2015, setting…
