Daile Kaplan

Photographs

Updated: 7.17.09

Daile Kaplan began her career in the field of fine-art photography when she cracked the cataloguing code to a cache of Lewis Hine's photographs, which had been lost in the Library of Congress for more than 50 years. She subsequently authored two books about America's preeminent social documentary photographer, and has been on the History Channel, Discovery Channel, and Bravo talking about his child labor, immigrant, and Empire State Building images.

A collector and curator, Ms. Kaplan is the author of Pop Photographica, Photography's Objects in Everyday Life, which explores the value of familiar decorative and functional objects adorned with photographic images jewelry, clothing, souvenirs, and housewares. Her recent book Premiere Nudes, Albert Arthur Allen highlights the fascinating story of this Roaring '20s photographer, who was imprisoned for mailing his studies of female nudes.

Ms. Kaplan is an auctioneer and appraiser who is a regional representative of the Appraisers Association of America. She is vice president and director of Photographs at Swann Auction Galleries, New York City's oldest specialty auction house.

She is on the board of directors of two not-for-profit organizations dedicated to promoting photojournalism, the Fifty Crows Foundation and the Alexia Foundation; she is also on the editorial board of ANTIQUES ROADSHOW Insider. She is a member of the Authors Guild, Appraisers Association of America, and ArtTable. Her references include Who's Who of American Women, International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women, and The Photography Encyclopedia.