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Collector: Sir Elton John Photography Collection. Avedon, Richard / Appelt, Dieter / Bourke-White, Margaret / Callahan, Harry / Dijkstra, Rineke / Goicolea, Anthony / Gonzalez Palma, Luis / Huan, Zhang / Kertesz, André / Lange, Dorothea / Levitt, Helen / McGinley, Ryan / Muniz, Vik / Neshat, Shirin / Penn, Irving / Ray, Man / Sherman, Cindy / Taylor Wood, Sam / Empel, Ruud van / Wearing, Gillian / Weston, Edward / Yamamoto, Masao.

Auction Houses (II) A selection of photographs that have achieved record-breaking prices at Christie’s, Phillips de Pury & Company and Sotheby’s. Girault de Prangey, Joseph / Philibert / Gursky, Andreas / Le Gray, Gustave / Prince, Richard / Ray, Man / S. Curtis, Edward / Sherman, Cindy / Steichen, Edward / Stieglitz, Alfred / Strand, Paul / Sugimoto, Hiroshi.

Archive: Allen Ginsberg. Throughout his life, the poet and activist built this personal photographic archive, which contains emblematic images and portraits of members of the Beat Generation.

Scope / Portfolio: Al-Shaik, Anas / Angel Rios, Miguel/ Bartos, Adam / Bhadra, Achinto / Bendiksen, Jonas / Fischer, Ernst / Gursky, Andreas / Johan, Simen / Lachapelle, David / Lainé, Daniel / Ma, Maleonn / McConnell, Gareth / Mosse, Richard / Olaf, Erwin / Parke, Trent / Ramette, Phillippe / Roberts, Simon / Skoglund, Sandy / Tien Chang, Wu / Xiaochun, Miao / Yee, I-Lann.

C Action: the grants awarded to Julia Peirone, the Swedish photographer, and Loan Nguyen, born in Switzerland but with Vietnamese roots.

Vintage: Lang Jingshan is considered the master of traditional Chinese photography, a reputation borne out in this selection of handcrafted photomontages, strongly influenced by oriental pictorialism.

Guest: Marina Abramovic has created a calendar for this section that recalls a popular American icon