Phillips will hold its fall Photographs auction in New York on Thursday, October 8, offering 240 lots across two sessions at its 432 Park Avenue headquarters. The sale brings together 20th- and 21st-century fashion, contemporary and classic photography, with estimates ranging from tens of thousands to the low hundreds of thousands of dollars. Public viewing ran from October 2 to 7. Among the leading lots are two works by Helmut Newton: Elsa Peretti as a Bunny, with costume by Halston, estimated at $200,000-300,000, and Sie Kommen, Paris (Dressed and Naked), estimated at $200,000-250,000. Irving Penn's Bee on Lips, New York is estimated at $120,000-180,000, as is Richard Avedon's Dovima with elephants, an evening dress by Dior photographed at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris. William Eggleston's Troubled Waters, a group of 15 prints, carries a $100,000-150,000 estimate, while Peter Hujar's Candy Darling is estimated at $60,000-80,000. The sale is structured around three curated sections. A Focused Life draws on the collection of noted dealer Peter Fetterman; Spotlight presents a private London collection of enduring cultural icons; and ULTIMATE includes an exclusive group of 14 unique Polaroids by fashion and art photographer Ellen von Unwerth. Works by Masahisa Fukase, Gerhard Richter, Elaine Sturtevant and Thomas Ruff round out the contemporary offering. The auction house describes its October sale as reflecting photography's ability to shape culture and capture history, gathering works of artistic excellence and cultural significance across every category of the market. The two-session format — lots 1-122 in the morning and lots 123-240 in the afternoon — makes this one of the largest single-day photography sales on the fall calendar.