Ovitz’s old office photos to be sold

A collection of about 90 photos that once adorned the walls of Michael Ovitz’s now-defunct Artists Management Group will be auctioned in New York this month at Phillips de Pury & Co.’s fall photography sale.

The collection includes a 1963 photograph of Bob Dylan by Richard Avedon; a series of photographs of Elvis Presley’s Graceland by William Eggleston, published in an edition of 31 copies in 1984; Irving Penn’s “Rock Groups, San Francisco” (1967); and Barry Winograd’s “Muhammad Ali -- Oscar Bonavena Press Conference, New York” (1970).

Ovitz, former president of Walt Disney Co. and a founding partner of leading talent firm Creative Artists Agency, founded AMG in 1999. In 2002, Ovitz severed all ties with the company and it merged with the Firm, one of the largest music management companies in Hollywood.

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Diane Haithman