The assembled photographs, spanning decades, clearly demonstrate how an ambitious and audacious artist shaped a public image.

How better to celebrate the event than with the present show of photographs spanning the period, which was assembled by Renata Rainer.

"Cecil Beaton: Portraits" has more than 150 photographs spanning five decades of fashion, art and celebrity.

At Drouot Montaigne on Monday and Tuesday, the French auction house Millon & Associés will offer 550 photographs spanning Brassaï's career, as well as 190 drawings and 12 small sculptures.

Swami Sundaranand is the author of the book Himalaya: Through the Lens of a Sadhu with over 425 photographs spanning 60 years of his work.

It is a huge show, with nearly 200 photographs spanning his 60-year career.

This African artist, who was born in Cameroon and lives and works in Central African Republic, makes an overdue Manhattan solo debut with 33 photographs spanning his career.

It opened in April 2009, with a collection of photographs spanning from the 1870s to the 1950s.

The exhibition, at the Museum for African Art, includes 70 photographs spanning 150 years.

It included some 160 black-and-white photographs spanning the period from 1979 to 2007.