It was a Whos Who among American photographers in the Classic and Contemporary Photographs sale at Swann Galleries on Feb. 25. The auction grossed $1,074,058 and saw competitive bidding. Edward Steichen led the sale with the dye transfer print White Lotus, 1939, printed 1940. The scarce color work brought a record for the image at $81,250. Also by Steichen was a 1922 silver contact print, a portrait of the artist Constantine Brancusi, which sold for $17,500. Margaret Bourke-Whites 1933 warm-toned silver print, The George Washington Bridge, came across the block from the collection of Robert Edward Kiehl, by descent, and earned $81,250. The Weston family provided a strong showing, with Edward Westons 1930 silver print titled Eroded Rock earning $12,500, and Brett Westons Dunes, Oceano, silver print, 1934, bringing $10,000. Additional works from American stalwarts included Charles Sheelers sepia-toned silver print, Buggy in a Barn, Doylestown, Pa. (Christmas card), 1915-17, printed 1928, which brought $12,500, as well as Minor Whites silver prints Beginnings, Rochester, N.Y. (Frosted Window), 1952, and Moon and Wall Encrustations, Puttneyville, N.Y., 1965, which sold for $11,250 each. Farm Security Administration photographers proved successful, with River Rouge Plant (Ford Motor Company), Number 1 Coke Quencher, silver print, 1947, by Walker Evans, won by an institution for $10,000. Dorothea Lange was also present with Family Walking on Highway, Five Children, silver print, 1938, printed ca. 1960, selling for $9,375. Humanist photography featured a run of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare St. Lazare, silver print, 1932, printed 1980s, and Hyres, France, silver print, 1932, printed 1980s, realizing $11,875 each. Nineteenth-century works included mammoth-plate albumen prints by Francis Firth, The Pyramids of Sakkarah, from the North East, 1858 ($12,500), and The Second Pyramid from the Southeast, 1858 ($10,625). For further information, visit www.swanngalleries.com.