Christie's closed its online-only Photographs sale in New York on October 10 with a $3.6 million total, clearing 83 percent of lots and reaching 115 percent of the combined low estimate. Nearly one in four bidders and buyers were transacting with the auction house for the first time, a sign the category continues to draw fresh collectors rather than relying on repeat clients. The sale's top price went to Ansel Adams: his 1958 print "Aspens, Northern New Mexico" realized $330,200, followed by Edward Weston's 1936 "Wind Erosion, Dunes at Oceano" at $190,500. Both are canonical images of American landscape photography, and their results anchored a sale spanning the medium's full history, from vintage gelatin-silver prints to fashion and documentary work. The sharpest bidding of the night centered on Gordon Parks's 1942 portrait "American Gothic, Washington D.C.", which sold for $38,100 against a $7,000 low estimate - more than five times its floor - setting a world auction record for the work. Parks made the portrait during his wartime documentation of Black life in America, and the result suggests sustained demand for socially charged vintage prints with strong cultural weight. Other standouts included Helmut Newton's "Fifteen Photographs" from 1980, which nearly doubled its low estimate at $120,650, and Irving Penn's 1948 Vogue fashion image "Cafe in Lima", which pushed past its high estimate to $95,250. Staged entirely online, the sale deepened a shift that has made digital bidding the default for photographs, with depth of bidding across eras reinforcing the category's health heading into the winter season.