Lady Clementina Hawarden (1 June 1822 – 19 January 1865) was prominent portrait photographer of the 1860s and pioneering female 19th century photographer. Hawarden first began to experiment with photography in 1857, taking stereoscopic landscape photographs before moving to large-format, stand-alone portraits of her daughters. She would often shoot her daughters in romantic and sensual [...]
16 June 2012 
Largest and Most Wanted Book of Photographs for Sale at Bonhams
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All art lovers can find a wide selection of photographs at at Bonhams Book, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs sale in London on 12 June. The highlight of the sale will definitely be a copy of one of the largest and most sought after books of photographs ever published, which is estimated at £50,000-£70,000 ($78,000-$109,000). [...]
12 September 2011 
Aviatrix Amelia Earhart’s Goggles Fetch $17,775
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1920s Luxor aviator goggles with a cracked left lens, worn by Amelia Earhart during her first plane crash in July 1921 in her Airster while learning to fly with instructor Neta Snook, have fetched $17,775 at an auction in Oakland, California. The goggles previously were owned by Barbara Englehardt, a Contra Costa County resident who got them [...]
15 March 2011 
Modernist Cuisine – Inside the New $625 Cookbook
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Food has a new language, and its dictionary, Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, has arrived in a $625 (on sale for $461.62) six-volume set of 2,438 pages. If you’re among the band of chefs, foodies, and casual eaters who think that the scientific approach to cooking is snobby, fussy, and unsatisfying, Ryan Matthew Smith’s [...]
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