Sam Haskins’s personal print collection comes to auction on 24 September

The personal collection of Sam Haskins — one of the photographers who helped define the look of the Swinging Sixties — comes to auction at Sloane Street Auctions on 24 September. Consigned by his son Ludwig, it comprises 78 original prints from the three photobooks that made Haskins’s name, and for anyone with an interest in figure photography or the history of the medium it is a rare chance to own work that shaped a decade. Live online bidding is available via Sloane Street Auctions. Who Sam Haskins was Haskins (1926-2009) was a British photographer, born in South Africa, who made his name in the 1960s with a trilogy of figure photography books: Five Girls (1962), Cowboy Kate & Other Stories (1964) and November Girl (1967). What makes his story unusual is that he did it far from the fashion capitals, working out of a commercial studio in Johannesburg, and...