19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop (here): Joshua H. Beal’s 1876 five-part panorama of New York City, as seen from the far stanchion of the Brooklyn Bridge (which was still under construction at the time) is a marvel of precision and detail. The edge to edge alignment of the frames is near perfect (and with little distortion), creating a continuous sweep of piers, boats, and sprawling warehouses and buildings. It’s a wonder, both as a historical document and a piece of intrepid 19th century photo making. Priced at $150000.

Michael Shapiro Photographs (no website): Clara Sipprell studied with Clarence White and was part of Alfred Stieglitz’ circle, but is perhaps less well known than others from that period. This image of a snow covered barn in Vermont (from the 1920s) has both a subtle textural richness and an elemental eye for planar geometries. Priced at $5000.

Throckmorton Fine Art (here): By isolating the hands of the puppeteer in this c1926 image, Tina Modotti effectively turns them into a sculptural study. The curves of the hands, the angle of the forearms, the lines of the string, and the resulting shadows all contribute to the subtle complexity of the composition. Priced at $15000, in a 1970s print made by Manuel Álvarez Bravo.

Gitterman Gallery (here): Man Ray’s “Enigma II” from 1935 is aptly titled, its wrapped and rope-tied exterior obscuring whatever is inside. The mystery is just as compelling as the sculptural form, leaving us insistently wondering about what we’re missing. Priced at $68000.

Michael Shapiro Photographs (no website): Will Connell’s 1935 portrait of “The Optician” creates a nested set of optical distortions, with three layers of glass between the man’s eye and the viewer. The bold intrusion of the dark geometries at the bottom adds to the elegantly modern confusion. Priced at $15000.

Bruce Silverstein Gallery (here): It’s a bit hard to put ourselves back in time to understand how wildly radical and innovative this 1943 all-over image of the Arizona desert by Frederick Sommer was at the time it was made. Cropped down to rocky flatness, the desert landscape dotted with cacti is transformed into enveloping abstract texture. To my eye, it’s still astonishing. Priced at $25000 (as a later print.)

Staley-Wise Gallery (here): While Horst P. Horst is deservedly well known as a cornerstone fashion and glamour photographer, his eye for still lifes also drew him back toward elemental Modernism, as seen here in a 1945 image of a halved artichoke. Of course, plenty of other Modernist photographers were closely observing fruits and vegetables as subjects at that artistic moment, but Horst’s lushly tactile curves (in platinum) can certainly compete. Priced at $11000 (as a later print.)

Duncan Miller Gallery (here): Prior to his better known forays into filmmaking, Stanley Kubrick was a staff photographer at LOOK magazine, and this image comes from a 1945 picture story called “Life and Love on the New York City Subways”. Between the expressions of the parents and the sacked out children, it’s a poignant slice of urban life. Priced at $125000 as a set of 18 prints and already sold.

Stephen Daiter Gallery (here): This c1948 print on masonite by Aaron Siskind is a worthy example of Abstract Expressionist photography. Cropped down to the essence of gestural paint swirls on a wall in Hoboken, it uses found observation to look inward toward new modes of artistic expression. Priced at $15000.

Throckmorton Fine Art (here): This perplexing 1952 image by Hector Garcia offers us a boy tightly folded up within a box of surrounding concrete. What the exact circumstances might have been are hard to imagine, but the vulnerability of that protective crouch is palpable. Priced at $9500.

Scheinbaum & Russek (here): This small Minor White print from 1967 captures the subtle psychology often found in his work. The snow drifts across the wooden carcass of a boat, reveling in nuanced texture and tonality, and lingering in a hollow sense of loss. Priced at $22000.

Stephen Daiter Gallery (here): Barbara Blondeau is a 20th century photographer who belongs on the under appreciated list. Her experimental photographic works from the 1960s and early 1970s remain consistently bold and unexpected, like this cut-and-layered body study from 1967. By nesting repeated images on top of each other, she distorts the usual scale and proportions of the figure, bringing surreal composite mystery to the human form. Priced at $6000.

Gitterman Gallery (here): This is the largest of the film transparency works by Jaroslav Rössler that I have seen. Made between 1967 and 1977, it layers smears of color into elongated echoes and reverberations, twisting from soft blue green to searing psychedelic pink, long before scanner-based images expanded this kind of visual vocabulary. Priced at $15000.

Augusta Edwards Fine Art (here): The rediscovery of NYC photographer Ernest Stone continues with images from his “New York A-Z” alphabet series, as seen here in the letter K. Not only does Stone isolate the letter form out of the nearby signage, he cleverly frames a woman between two phone booths as she passes by, making the most of the available light and dark contrasts. Priced at $1000 (as a posthumous estate print.)

Charles Isaacs Photographs (here)/Grégory Leroy (no website): Kati Horna’s 1978 series “Muros de Mexico” flattens painted walls into geometric abstractions. Here the colors create an elemental balance, with the scuffed whiteness interrupting the strict proportions like a drifting cloud. Priced at $16000.

Janet Borden (here): This intricate kitchen still life comes from Jan Groover’s 1978 series “Tybee Forks and Starts”. The criss-crossed utensils create multiple reflections and echoes, turning the everyday into an elegantly complex visual puzzle. Priced at $8000.

HackelBury Fine Art (here): This floating (or falling) figure comes from Bill Armstrong’s series “Renaissance”, where out-of-focus forms emerge from master drawings. Armstrong’s blurred approach pares the details down to an essential human gesture or movement, flying through an enveloping pink haze. Priced at $3700.

Yancey Richardson (here): A symphony of blue permeates this 2016 image by Tania Franco Klein, which later became part of her 2019 photobook Positive Disintegration (reviewed here). Between the pillow, the phone, the carpet, and the chair, blue hues fill the frame, with the pop of white from the overstuffed ashtray giving us a sense of lonely extended time. Priced at $8000.

Janet Borden (here): This Christoph Niemann work comes from his series “Sunday Sketches”, and cleverly re-imagines a still life image of pliers into an open-mouthed man writing a letter. This image wasn’t included in his 2024 gallery show (reviewed here), but certainly highlights his ability to transform a photograph into the visual raw material for a larger drawing. Priced at $950 (as an editioned offset print.)

Polka Galerie (here): The visual mythologies of the classic American road trip simmer though Eloïse Labarbe-Lafon’s project “American Album”. Here a silhouetted cowboy faces a gas pump, the overpainted tones amplifying the mood of the moment and making the flat desert in the distance look even more empty. Priced at $3000 framed.

Danziger Gallery (here): A pair of braids animates this back-view portrait by Hoda Ashfar, from her 2023 series “In Turn”. Made in response to the feminist uprisings in Iran in 2022, the series captures Iranian Australian women coming together to braid their hair, as sympathetic stand-ins for those still fighting for freedoms. Priced at $20000.

Catherine Couturier Gallery (here): Surreal shadows permeate the work of Sander Vos, as seen in this sinuously layered still life. The forms and textures smartly intermingle, creating repetitions and inversions that coalesce into deliberate alignment and uncertainty. Priced at $1250.

Scheinbaum & Russek (here): This 2025 portrait by Cara Romero falls into the category of “Indigenous Futurism”, where traditional cultural knowledge is blended with science fiction and other speculative artistic approaches. Here Apsáalooke story teller Robert Gress wears a hand made headdress and regalia, but is bathed in eerie colored light, creating an energetic tension between past and future. Priced at $17000.

SoMad (here): Mixing projection, performance, and sculptural intervention, this 2025 self-portrait work by Yi Hsuan Lai mixes textures and surfaces to aggregate an identity. Skin and rubber become interchangeable, creating blended curves. Priced at $5500.

Robert Mann Gallery (here): Red is the dominating color in this frontally-interrupted portrait by Cig Harvey. The blossoms and branches partially block our view of the red-dressed model, leading to a lushly exuberant sense of romance. From 2025, and priced at $9000.

Bildhalle (here): Henrik Kerstens has been making portraits of his daughter Paula for more than three decades now, and this new image finds the two continuing to collaborate to playfully unravel the aesthetic traditions of Dutch portrait painting. A gold-painted egg carton acts as a replacement for a magnificent hat or headpiece, set at the confidently jaunty angle of knowing privilege. Priced at $35000.

Marshall Gallery (here): This 2026 work from Angel Albarrán and Anna Cabrera extends recent experiments the artistic duo have been making with polarized sheets of plastic. Known for their expertise in interpreting the rich textures of Japanese paper and gold leaf, Albarrán Cabrera extend those ideas here, the clear ribbon twisting back on itself, creating a warmly tactile spectrum effect. Priced at $5500.