A sale of photographs from the collection of the Polaroid Corporation brought in $12.5 million, setting an auction record for iconic photographer Ansel Adams and new marks for the medium by artists including Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, and David Hockney. There were also works by Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lucas Samaras and William Wegman. Nearly 90 percent of the lots offered found buyers, with the total easily beating the high pre-sale estimate. Some photographs by Warhol and Close soared to 10 or even 20 times pre-sale estimates as records tumbled.
