• Estimate $10,000-15,000

Francesca Woodman primarily used medium format cameras and her unique vision to create intimate black and white tableaux. Providence, Rhode Island strikingly juxtaposes a woman’s exposed back with exposed brick on an old, painted wall.

Featured in Bonhams’ Photographs, April 5

• Estimate $8,000-12,000

American avant-garde artist Man Ray spent most of his career in Paris. Inextricably linked to Surrealism and Dadaism, Man Ray was famous for his dream-like photography and had an indelible impact on the art world. Nusch Eluard and Mask offers the phantasmagorical juxtaposition of a smiling woman’s face and a grape-vine adorned smiling mask.

Featured in Bonhams’ Photographs, April 5

• Estimate $300,000-500,000

Tina Modotti was an Italian photographer, model, actress, and revolutionary political activist. Following in the footsteps of her lover and mentor, Edward Weston, the two moved to Mexico in 1922, where they explored modernism, the photographic still-life, and political activism through photography.

Featured in Phillips’ Passion & Humanity: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection, April 4

• Estimate $25,000-35,000

The award-winning conceptual photography of American multi-media artist Carrie Mae Weems explores issues of racism, sexism and personal identity. High Yella Girl, with its yellow tinted print and mugshot style profile, examines colorism and prejudiced expectations.

Featured in Phillips’ Photographs, April 4

• Estimate $80,000-100,000

American photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange’s iconic image of a migrant mother humanized the suffering of the Dust Bowl. Her visually striking, socially conscious photography forced Americans to look at uncomfortable truths. Famous for her Depression-era photography, Lange was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2003.

Featured in Phillips’ Photographs, April 4

• Estimate $30,000 - $50,000

Luxembourgish American Edward Steichen came to the US in 1881 and would shape the trajectory of modern photography, through his work as a photographer and curator. Steichen photographed celebrities, fashionistas, artists and intellectuals, and was the first modern fashion photographer. From 1923 to 1938, his compelling compositions made him the highest paid photographer in the world. In 1945, he directed the U.S. Naval Photographic Institute, later becoming director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art.

Featured in Christie’s April 2nd auction, Daydreaming: Photographs from the Goldstein Collection

• Estimate $300,000 - $500,000

American Edward Weston is considered one of the masters of 20th-century photography. Over his 40 year career, Weston brilliantly captured a wide range of subjects, from landscapes and still lives to nudes and portraits. Shells 6S, 1927, is an impressive example of his modernistic still lives. In 1937, he was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Featured in Christie’s April 2nd auction, The Face of the Century: Photographs from a Private Collection