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April 27 Saturday 2024  11:01 AM (MDT)

DARIUS HIMES

CHRISTIES'S

AUTHOR

LECTURER

PODCASTER

PUBLISHER

Based in New York City and having joined Christie’s in 2014, Darius Himes (Instagram @dariushimes) oversees a global team producing auctions, exhibitions and catalogues as International Head of the Photographs department.

During his time at Christie’s, Himes interviewed Sir Elton John and David Mirvish in 2016 about their long love of photography and work with the Elton John AIDS Foundation. In August of 2017, Christie’s announced a major deaccession of photographs from The Museum of Modern Art (articles appeared here, here, and here).

The November, 2017 auction of the Thomas Koerfer Collection produced a World Auction Record for any classic photograph: Man Ray’s Noire et Blanche, 1926, sold for a whopping $3.1M USD.

 

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Darius Himes has always been guided and inspired by a life-long passion for photography.

Darius Himes is a public figure in the international arena of fine art photography. Based in New York City, Himes currently serves as International Head of the Photographs department at Christie’s.

 

Over the last 5 years Himes has filmed interviews Sir Elton John and David Mirvish about their love of photography, as well as artists Hiroshi Sugimoto, Bruce Davidson and Todd Hido. In August of 2017, Himes announced that The Museum of Modern Art, NY had chosen Christie’s for a major deaccession of photographs from their collection.

 

And in November of 2017, the Christie’s Photographs Department broke a 12-year-old record for most expensive historic photograph ever sold at public auction, selling a portrait of Kiki de Montparnasse by Man Ray for a whopping $3.1M USD.

 

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DARIUS HIMES

Based in New York City and having joined Christie’s in 2014, Darius Himes (Instagram @dariushimes) oversees a global team producing auctions, exhibitions and catalogues as International Head of the Photographs department. During his time at Christie’s, Himes interviewed Sir Elton John and David Mirvish in 2016 about their long love of photography and work with the Elton John AIDS Foundation. In August of 2017, Christie’s announced a major deaccession of photographs from The Museum of Modern Art (articles appeared here, here, and here). The November, 2017 auction of the Thomas Koerfer Collection produced a World Auction Record for any classic photograph: Man Ray’s Noire et Blanche, 1926, sold for a whopping $3.1M USD.

Prior to joining Christie’s, Himes was director of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco from 2011–2014, working closely with their roster of artists and publications. In 2007 he co-founded Radius Books, a non-profit publisher of books on photography and the visual arts, where he still serves on the Board. While working with artists such as John McCracken and Lee Friedlander, he is most proud of publishing first monographs for over a dozen emerging artists, including Colleen Plumb, Aaron Huey, Janelle Lynch, Michael Lundgren, Alison Rossiter, and Meghan Riepenhoff.

Himes was the founding editor of photo-eye Booklist, a quarterly journal devoted to photography books, which was published from 2002–2007. A lecturer and writer, he has contributed to Aperture, The Photobook Review, Blind Spot, Bookforum, FOAM and BOMB. His most recent title, Publish Your Photography Book, co-authored with Mary Virginia Swanson, was released by Princeton Architectural Press in the Spring of 2011, with an updated 2nd edition published in the Spring of 2014, and is still available here. Himes completed his Master of Arts in Liberal Arts at St. John’s College in 2000, and received a BFA in Photography from Arizona State University, having studied under William Jenkins and Bill Jay.