28 OCTOBER 1989, page 49

Photography

Still a Cinderella Francis Hodgson reflects on photography's 150th anniversary E ighteen thirty-nine is an entirely arbitrary date for the birth of photography. In that year the......

Sale-rooms

Book values Peter Watson I t used to be said of the two main auction houses that Christie's were gentlemen trying to be auctioneers, while Sotheby's were auctioneers trying to......