Andrew Moore, "Contact," Times Square, NYC. Estimate $5,000–7,000.
"I love how Andrew Moore’s photographs capture old New York."
Matthew Barney, Cremaster 3: The Song of the Vertical Field. Estimate $30,000–50,000.
"I like everything Matthew Barney has ever done."
Nan Goldin, Joana's Back in the Doorway Looking at Aurele, Chateauneuf de Gadagne, Avignon. Estimate $6,000–9,000. Nan Goldin, Joey in My Bathtub, Sag Harbor. Estimate $6,000–9,000.
"There’s a Richard Kern sort of vibe to these photographs. There’s a story, but they don’t seem overly posed, which I appreciate."
Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, Winter (Bed of Roses). Estimate $15,000–25,000.
"Gregory Crewdson is a huge inspiration to me. I’d love to be photographed by him."
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #415. Estimate $180,000–250,000
"Cindy Sherman is another photographer I really admire."
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Golden Eagle. Estimate $8,000–12,000.
"I really like this Sugimoto photograph of an eagle. He photographed it in such a romantic way."
Robert Mapplethorpe, Calendar Guy. Estimate $40,000–60,000.
"Mapplethorpe, of course. Being in New York, he is the man, you know?"
Dash Snow, Selected Images (Polaroid Enlargements). Estimate $20,000–30,000.
"I remember hearing about Dash Snow before I met him. We had some mutual friends and weird encounters. There was something about him that was really fucking special, that guy."
Even before Norman Reedus became known as an actor, starring in The Walking Dead and Boondock Saints, he found a means of expressing himself: photography. What began in junior high and high school photography classes soon developed into a more serious occupation when Reedus moved to Los Angeles in his early twenties and put on art shows with friends from Otis College of Art and Design. Now, photography is a passion Reedus pursues as he travels the world. Many of his fascinating images – at once intriguing, unsettling and playful – can be seen in his debut book The Sun's Coming Up… Like A Big Bald Head (Authorscape Inc.), and two of Reedus’s works will be offered in Sotheby’s 28 September Postwar and Contemporary Photographs auction. We spoke with Reedus about his favorite works in the sale. –ALEXANDRA OWENS
Postwar and Contemporary Photographs
28 September | New York
PHOTO: STUART S. SHAPIRO