The Maillet Daguerreotype Collection

Darius Himes is Deputy Chairman, International Head of Photographs, based in New York City, where he oversees a global team holding auctions in Paris, London, and NYC. He is focused on private sales and business development, with a keen emphasis on bringing singular collections and individual masterpieces to market in innovative ways. In recent years, his strategic approach has yielded outstanding auction records for Man Ray, Edward Steichen, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, and William Eggleston among others. In 2022 alone, the department achieved three of the four top prices for any photograph sold at auction.

Since joining the company in 2014, Himes has had the privilege of speaking with Sir Paul McCartney, Richard Gere, and Sir Elton John about their love of photography and has interviewed on stage numerous artists including Hiroshi Sugimoto, Mona Kuhn, Todd Hido, and Bruce Davidson about their work. He was instrumental in bringing the personal collection of DJ Kool Herc, the founding father of Hip-Hop, to Christie’s for a landmark sale in the summer of 2022.

Prior to joining Christie’s, Himes was director of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco from 2011–2014. In 2007 he co-founded Radius Books, a non-profit publisher of books on photography and the visual arts. A lecturer and writer, his 3rd edition of Publish Your Photography Book, co-authored with Mary Virginia Swanson, was released in the spring of 2023.

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. His love of the full breadth of the medium is evident in his work both within and outside the auction world.