October 18, 2012 5:29 pm

FT/GFC Photography Auction 2012

By Katie Litchfield

Auctioned by Sotheby’s Adrian Biddell with works kindly donated by Cecil Beaton Studio Archive, Jane Bown, Stuart Franklin, Chris Smith, David Burnett and many more.

Online Bidding:
Thursday 1– November 13 2012
Bidding is open for absentee bids . To register, please email photoauction@ft.com with your full name, mobile phone number, landline number, email address, lot title and your maximum bid .

Preview/Public Viewing:
Tuesday 13 – November 14 2012
10am - 4.30pm
Financial Times, 1 Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HL      

Seasonal Appeal Launch Event and Private Auction:
Thursday, November 15 2012
6.30pm – 9.00pm
Shakespeare’s Globe, Bankside, London SE1 9DT
Strictly invitation only. To request an invitation to attend the evening, please email GFClaunch@ft.com or call +44 (0)20 7873 4920

  • Lot 01 David Burnett/Contact Press Images Launch of Apollo XI, first manned exploration of the moon. Spectators gather along the beach across from the launch pad at The Kennedy Space Center to watch the lift off that morning. Titusville, Florida, USA, July 16,1969, signed, letter of authenticity, 16 x 20 inch archival glicee print, framed and mounted.
    Lot 01 David Burnett/Contact Press Images Launch of Apollo XI, first manned exploration of the moon. Spectators gather along the beach across from the launch pad at The Kennedy Space Center to watch the lift off that morning. Titusville, Florida, USA, July 16,1969, signed, letter of authenticity, 16 x 20 inch archival glicee print, framed and mounted.
  • Lot 02 Tom Stoddart courtesy Reportage by Getty Images ‘Girl in the Pigeons’ 2001, signed, digital c-type on Fuji crystal archive paper, 16 x 20 inch print, mounted and framed.
  • Lot 03 Jane Bown ‘Samuel Beckett’ 1976, signed, 16 x 20 inch silver gelatin print, mounted and framed.
  • Lot 04 Tom Jenkins 'Team Pursuit, World Cup, Manchester' 2011, signed, c-type 16 x 20 inch, print mounted and framed.
  • Lot 05 Jonathan Knowles ‘Arboretum’ 2012, limited edition 1 of 5, archival pigment on Hahnemühle Bamboo 38 x 18 inch print, signed with certificate, mounted and framed.
  • Lot 06 Stuart Franklin/Magnum ‘Tiananmen Square Tank Man’ 1989 signed, 20 x 16 inch silver gelatin print made at Picto in Paris, mounted and framed.
  • Lot 7 Charlie Bibby/Financial Times 'London Olympics Show Jumping' 2012, signed, 1 of 1 limited edition, 16 x 20 inch c-type print, mounted and framed.
  • Lot 08 Anthony Devlin/PA 'Jubilee Fireworks' 2012 limited edition 1 of 1, 24 x 17 inch resin, signed print, mounted and framed.
  • Lot 09 Niall McDiarmid ‘Cape Neddick Maine’ 1997, signed limited edition 2 of 10, c-type Lambda 24 x 20 inch print, mounted and framed.
  • Lot 10 Tom Hunter 'Jack shall have Jill; Nought shall go ill; The man shall have his mare again. And all shall be well' 2011 c-type print, special edition 1 of 1 from original series of 5, signed certificate, mounted and framed.
  • Lot 11 Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images ‘Penthouse Pool’ 1961, 19 x 19 inch colour lambda print, estate stamped, limited edition 5 of 150, mounted and framed.
  • Lot 12 Jon Super/AP 'Rooney in the Rain' 2007 silver halide 16 x 20 inch limited edition 1 of 1 signed print, mounted and framed.
  • Lot 13 James Nachtwey ‘Boy On Tank, Nicaragua’ 1984, exhibition fibre print, 12 x 18 inch signed print, mounted and framed.
  • Lot 14 Cecil Beaton/The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s ‘Lucian Freud, Clarissa Churchill (Lady Avon) Stanislas and Grace Radziwill, Wiltshire', 28 August 1948. Hand printed silver gelatin print from Cecil Beaton’s original negative, limited edition 1 of 20, studio stamped and dated July 2012 on reverse of print, 20 x 24 inch print, mounted and framed.
  • Lot 15 Mark Blinch/Reuters 'Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire from the U.S. side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.' 2012 digital C-type 19 x 13 inch print, mounted and framed.
  • Lot 16 Chris Smith ‘Ali versus the Beatles’ 1964, silver gelatin fibre based 20 x 16 inch print, limited edition 58/100, signed, mounted and framed.
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