# Carl Mydans - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T22:16:09.212Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 46
- Lots with prices: 27
- First auction date: 2005-02-15
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-15
- Median realised price: $500
- Price range: $100 to $9,375

## Market Takeaway
Carl Mydans has 46 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($250 to $2,500\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 66.7% (18 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 33.3% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $220
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-15
- Days since latest sale: 225
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Swann Auction Galleries: 8 lots
- Guernsey's: 5 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 4 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 3 lots
- Phillips: 3 lots
- STAIR: 3 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- Jackson's International: 2 lots
- Skinner: 2 lots
- Waddington's: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-15 | Carl Mydans \(American 1907 \- 2004\). Sandhog working on the Queens Midtown Tunnel under the East River, New York, 1939. | Adams Amsterdam Auctions | N/A
2. 2025-03-02 | CARL MYDANS, "Resistance Fighter", 1944 Photograph | Rivich Auction | $500
3. 2025-01-30 | CARL MYDANS \(1907 \- 2004\) Interior of mountain farmhouse, Appalachian Mts., near Marshall, NC \* School scene at Cumberland Mountain Far | Swann Auction Galleries | $500
4. 2024-08-25 | CARL MYDANS \(NY, 1906\-2004\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $150
5. 2024-06-06 | Carl Mydans \(1907\-2004\) | Chiswick Auctions | £220
6. 2024-04-20 | Carl Mydans \(2\) Boy Sitting on a Bed & Daughter of Migrant Workers | Larsen Art Auction | $350
7. 2023-11-30 | Carl Mydans \(1907\-2004\) | Chiswick Auctions | £180
8. 2022-12-13 | CARL MYDANS SIGNED PHOTO GENERAL MACARTHUR | Jackson's International | $650
9. 2022-12-13 | CARL MYDANS SIGNED PHOTO GENERAL MACARTHUR | Jackson's International | $750
10. 2022-10-20 | CARL MYDANS \(1907\-2004\) On the 6:25 from Grand Central to Stamford, November 22, 1963. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,375
11. 2022-01-27 | CARL MYDANS \(1907\-2004\) Manhattan From Brooklyn Heights. | Swann Auction Galleries | $9,375
12. 2022-01-27 | CARL MYDANS \(1907\-2004\) Cotton patch in stony soil which is characteristic of a good part of the Crabtree Creek recreational demonstrat | Swann Auction Galleries | $500
13. 2021-09-09 | Carl Mydans \(1907\-2004\): Potato Planting, Limburg, Germany | STAIR | $500
14. 2021-06-17 | Carl Mydans \(American, 1907\-2004\) A group of four photographs \(Ministers Meeting, Rome,  1940;  Preparing the Land to Plant Rice, 1949;  Unloading Rice at Kobe, 1949;  Bricks for Building, Greenbelt, MD,  c. 1939\) | Hindman | $750
15. 2021-03-11 | CARL MYDANS \(1907\-2004\) Wooden Paddled Water Wheel on Family Farm, China. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
16. 2020-11-14 | Carl MYDANS \(1907\-2004\) Banlieusards apprenant la nouvelle de l’assassinat | Cornette de Saint\-Cyr | €4,500
17. 2020-03-30 | Carl Mydans \(1907\-2004\) | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
18. 2019-10-17 | CARL MYDANS \(1907\-2004\) Gen. Douglas MacArthur landing in Luzon, Philippines. | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,750
19. 2019-04-18 | CARL MYDANS \(1907\-2004\) On the 6:25 from Grand Central to Stamford, November 22, 1963 \(Kennedy assassination\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $6,250
20. 2018-10-18 | CARL MYDANS \(1907\-2004\) Gen. Douglas MacArthur landing in Luzon, Philippines. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,500
21. 2018-04-09 | CARL MYDANS \- Gen. Douglas MacArthur with Gen. Richard Sutherland and Col. Lloyd Lehrbas walks through the surf to the beach at Lingayen, Luzon, the Philippines, 1945 | Phillips | N/A
22. 2018-04-09 | CARL MYDANS \- The newly created 'Japanese Police Force' moves out of camp for winter training, Hokkaido, Japan, 1951 | Phillips | N/A
23. 2018-04-09 | CARL MYDANS \- On the 6:25 from Grand Central to Stamford, November 22, 1963 | Phillips | $3,500
24. 2017-12-13 | CARL MYDANS \(AMERICAN, 1907\-2007\) UNLOADING RICE AT KOBE, JAPAN, 1949 GELATIN SI | Heritage Auctions | N/A

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