NEW YORK, NY.- On December 9, Swann Galleries conducted an auction devoted to Important Photographs & Photobooks, and top prices were achieved for classic photos by well-known artists, early examples of the emerging art form, and cutting-edge contemporary works. The sale’s top lot was the Brett Weston portfolio Twenty Photographs 1970-1977, silver prints, 1970-77, printed 1978, one of an edition of 35, which sold for $33,600*. Also by Weston was the transcendent Mendenhall Glacier, silver print, 1973, $10,200, and a lot of three project prints by Edward and Brett Weston, which were featured in a 1960s television show called “The Art of Seeing,” $7,800. Other celebrated portfolios were Berenice Abbott’s New York II, with 12 silver prints that document the Big Apple from 1930 through 1950, from an edition of 65, printed 1979, $21,600; and The