Hasselblad Cameras & Photo Equipment
News about Hasselblad Cameras & Photo Equipment

BOSTON – The first Hasselblad camera body and Zeiss lens carried into space during the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission in 1962 and again on the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission the following year sold for $275,000 on Thursday, according to Massachusetts-based RR Auction. Wally Schirra reportedly purchased the Hasselblad 500c camera at a Houston photo supply shop in […]

CHICAGO – Marking the 50th anniversary of the last human voyage to the moon, Wright and LAMA present One Giant Leap for Mankind: Vintage Photographs from the Victor Martin-Malburet Collection, Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Project Apollo (1961–1972), an auction to take place in Chicago on Friday, October 28. This stunning collection comprises more than 300 original […]

LOS ANGELES – As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Abell Auction Co. will continue its move to a live online-only auction format with a sale of luxury goods on Tuesday, April 28, starting at 10 a.m. Pacific time. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.

NEW YORK – The 20th century produced many great photographers – Ansel Adams, Helmut Newton, Annie Liebovitz and Richard Avedon come instantly to mind – but few were as provocative and notorious as Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989), whose work fueled a national debate over the public funding of controversial artwork. Armed initially with an unassuming Polaroid […]