It was generally a flat outing at the Photographs sale at Christie’s last week. The top lot Robert Mapplethorpe print failed to sell, giving way to a Hiroshi Sugimoto seascape for the top lot honors. The overall Buy-In rate came in just under 28%, and with just a few positive surprises, the Total Sale Proceeds (of roughly $2.06M) struggled to reach the low end of the aggregate pre-sale estimate range.... Read on.