Ansel Adams photo, $720,000, Sotheby’s

A photograph by Ansel Adams titled Aspens, Northern New Mexico (Vertical) sold for $720,000 at an auction titled Ansel Adams: A Legacy / Photographs from the Meredith Collection held October 16th by Sotheby’s in New York. Also, a series of five images called Surf Sequence rose to $576,000; Rose and Driftwood, San Francisco knocked down for $132,000, a record for the image; and The Snake River & the Tetons, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming brought $96,000.