NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s spring Photographs auction on 6 April in New York will offer a variety of exceptional works, from a recently-rediscovered Mathew Brady daguerreotype to Contemporary photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto, Richard Prince, and the multi-media master Peter Beard. Of special note are masterpieces of 20th-century photography by Man Ray, Jaromír Funke, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Richard Avedon, and Irving Penn, among many others. The pre-sale exhibition opens on 2 April. The catalogue’s front and back covers feature superb 1930s photographs by Man Ray, including a Photomontage with Nude and Studio Light (est. $100/150,000),* a rare Surrealist image that was included in the artist’s definitive early monograph Photographs by Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934; and a Solarized Male Torso (est. $70/100,000, above right), unusual in the photographer’s oeuvre. Jaromír Funke, the great Czech Mode