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NEW YORK — A historic sale of photographs including works by Ansel Adams, Lucas Samaras and Andy Warhol has set records at a New York City auction.Sotheby's auction house says its two-day sale of about 1,000 photographs from the Polaroid corporate collection concluded Tuesday, fetching more than $12 million. Its presale estimate was up to $10.7 million.Adams' "Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park" sold for $722,500. That shattered his 2006 auction record of $609,600 for "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico."A Samaras work called "Ultra-Large (Hands)" went for $194,500. The previous record for the artist was $132,000 for "Transformation: Eyeglasses" in 1989. Auction records for a photograph by Warhol were broken twice. "Self-Portrait (Eyes Closed)" sold for $254,500, surpassing an earlier record of $146,500 for "Self-Portrait (Grimace)."