Phillips de Pury & Company’s Photographs Department is a leader in the field of classic and contemporary photography. Sales in New York and London show strong results across all genres of the medium, including works by 20th-century masters such as Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Horst P. Horst and Peter Beard, and works by contemporary stars such as Thomas Struth, Florian Maier-Aichen, Desiree Dolron, John Baldessari, Robert Polidori and Edward Burtynsky.