32nd edition. 75 of the world's leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work - including contemporary, modern and 19th-century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video and new media. Among the highlights, a solo exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, of new work by Philip-Lorca diCorcia, and a specially curated exhibition of early French photography at James Hyman Photography, London.
The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) will hold the 32 nd edition of
The AIPAD Photography Show New York, one of the world’s most important annual
photography events, March 29 – April 1, 2012, at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street in New
York City.
Seventy-five of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of
museum-quality work, including contemporary, modern, and 19th-century photographs, as well
as photo-based art, video, and new media. The AIPAD Photography Show New York is the
longest running and foremost exhibition of fine art photography. The Show will commence with
an opening night gala on March 28, 2012, to benefit inMotion, which provides free legal
services to low-income women.
AIPAD 2012 will present four new member exhibitors: David Zwirner, New York; Sasha Wolf
Gallery, New York; Paul Cava Fine Art Photographs, Bala Cynwyd, PA; and 798 Photo Gallery,
Beijing.
EXHIBITORS
A wide range of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will exhibit at The AIPAD
Photography Show New York. In addition to galleries from New York City and across the
country, a number of international galleries will be featured from France, Germany, Great
Britain, Argentina, Japan, and China. An exhibitor list is available at aipad.com/photoshow.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
Among the highlights at The AIPAD Photography Show New York will be a solo exhibition at
David Zwirner, New York, of new work by Philip-Lorca diCorcia, and a specially curated
exhibition of early French photography at James Hyman Photography, London.
A number of extraordinary portraits will be on view. Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, will
show Linda McCartney’s photographs of Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix. Bert Stern’s prints of
Marilyn Monroe from her last sitting in 1962, which she famously crossed off, will be on view at
Staley-Wise Gallery, New York. Hans P. Kraus Jr. Inc., New York, will exhibit portraits by the
19th-century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, including one of the American poet Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow.
Flip Schulke’s mural-sized silver gelatin print of Muhammad Ali jumping out of a hotel pool in
Miami Beach from1961 will be exhibited at Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York. The image was
first published that year in Life magazine. Portraits of pioneer photographers will be shown at
Charles Schwartz Ltd., New York, including a rare self-portrait by Herbert George Ponting from
1912 made during the ill-fated expedition of Robert Falcon Scott to Antarctica. Steven Kasher
Gallery, New York, will exhibit new portraits of Occupy Wall Street protestors by Accra Schepp,
along with work by Weegee and the posthumously discovered Vivian Maier.
Tam Tran is known for self-portraits with provocative titles such as My Call to Arms, Retro Bitch,
I Forgot Pants, Strip Tease, and When Are We Leaving? Her photographs were seen at the 2010
Whitney Biennial; at age 23 she was the youngest artist in the exhibition. Her work is currently
on view in the exhibition Portraiture Now, Asian American Portraits of Encounter, at the
Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Her image entitled Youniverse, 2010, will be shown by
Gary Edwards Gallery, Washington, DC.
Kelli Connell creates portraits that appear to document a relationship between two women
caught up in everyday moments of pleasure and reflection. Yet upon closer inspection, the
viewer will notice that the subjects appear to be twins: in fact, Connell has seamlessly created a
photograph with the same model portraying both roles. At the forefront of digital technologies
for the past decade, Connell addresses complex issues of identity and visual rhetoric. Her work
will be exhibited at Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago.
Unique portraits of dolls by Fausta Facciponte will be on view at Stephen Bulger Gallery,
Toronto. In her series Sleepy Eyes, 2011, Facciponte explores the human qualities of reclaimed
dolls from garage sales and online auctions.
Following a long-standing tradition in photography, photographers send original prints to one
another at holiday time. A collection of personal holiday cards by Lee Friedlander, Jerry
Uelsmann, and John Szarkowski, among others, will be on view at Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd.,
Santa Fe. The cards are from the collection of Beaumont and Nancy Newhall. Beaumont
Newhall became the first director of the photography department at The Museum of Modern
Art, New York, in 1940, and was the director of the George Eastman House, Rochester, from
1958 to 1971.
Karen Knorr’s series India Song, 2008-2010, depicts tigers and other wild animals lounging in
exotic palaces, mansions, and mausoleums. The stunning images reinvent the Panchatantra, an
ancient Indian collection of animal fables, for the 21st century, blurring the boundaries between
reality and illusion. Knorr was nominated for the 2012 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, one
of Europe’s most prestigious awards. Prints from India Song will be on view at Danziger Gallery,
New York, along with work by Andy Warhol, Evelyn Hofer, and Hendrik Kerstens. Robert
Burge/20th Century Photos, Ltd, New York, will show John Woolf’s new color panoramas of
classical theater interiors. Work from Laura Letinsky’s new series Ill Form and Void Full,
currently on view in a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, will be the
highlight at Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
Compelling landscape photography will be on view at AIPAD. Mariana Cook, the last protégé of
Ansel Adams, was at her home on Martha’s Vineyard on the day before Thanksgiving in 2002
when 56 cows strayed through a crumbling section of the stone wall she shares with her
neighbor. Struck by the beauty of the wall, Cook spent eight years traveling to Peru, Great
Britain, Ireland, the Mediterranean, New England, and Kentucky in pursuit of photographing dry
stone walls. Her acclaimed book Stone Walls: Personal Boundaries was published last fall, and
Lee Marks Fine Art, Shelbyville, IN, will exhibit a number Cook’s gelatin silver prints, including
Modern Wall in Spring, Froggatt, Derbyshire, England, 2004.
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, will show striking seascapes from Alejandro Chaskielberg’s series
The High Tide, 2010. The images were made at night in a small river delta community in
Argentina using moonlight, flashlights, lanterns, and strobes to illuminate the staged scenes.
The first picture ever made of the earth from lunar orbit in 1966 will be on view at Charles
Isaacs Photographs, New York. Galerie f5,6, Munich, will exhibit cityscapes by Max Regenberg
from his series Come to Where, which documents advertising for Marlboro in the U.S. and
Canada in the 1970s. 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing, will show work by artists Song Chao, Wang
Shilong, Xiao Zhuang, and Yang Yankang.
Julie Saul Gallery, New York, will show the panorama Flatiron Building, Manhattan, 2011, by
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, whose work is currently in an exhibition at the South Street Seaport
Museum in New York. Sherril Schell’s Skylights, Penn Station, a silver print from 1929, will be on
view at Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco, CA. Fifteen photographs by this pioneering but
long-overlooked modern master were exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York in
2006.
A study of trees, c. 1910-1920, by Maxfield Parrish will be on view at Paul Cava Fine Art
Photographs, Bala Cynwyd, PA. Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, will offer the diaristic
photography of Elinor Carucci, whose work can be found at The Museum of Modern Art and the
International Center for Photography, New York. Gitterman Gallery, New York, will show the
landscapes of Adam Bartos, whose interest in 19th-century travel photography has taken him to
Egypt, Kenya, and Mexico with a large-format camera. Robert Mann Gallery, New York, will
exhibit landscapes and interiors ranging from 1940s work by Ansel Adams and Fred Stein to
new work from Julie Blackmon and Jeff Brouws.
In late June of 1964, three civil rights workers in Mississippi went missing, kidnapped by Ku Klux
Klansmen. Their names were James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. Bill
Eppridge arrived shortly after their bodies were pulled from the muck of an earthen dam in
Neshoba County on August 4, 1964. His touching portrait Mrs. Chaney and young Ben, James
Chaney Funeral, Mississippi, 1964 will be on view at Monroe Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe.
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Rue Mouffetard, 1948/1956, which depicts a young schoolboy
triumphantly carrying two bottles of wine, will be on view at John Cleary Gallery, Houston. Paul
Strand’s Central Park, New York, a platinum print from 1915-1916, will be shown at Weston
Gallery, Carmel, CA. A lantern slide of the image is in the Paul Strand Collection at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
André Kertész’s silver print, Distortion #40, from 1933/1940s will be exhibited by Contemporary
Works/Vintage Works, Chalfont, PA. Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, will show Robert
Heinecken’s Recto/Verso #2, 1988. Heinecken worked with experimental photomontages,
exploiting random combinations, and appropriated imagery to excavate cultural meaning.
Hyperion Press Ltd., New York, will show several celebrated photographs by Man Ray.
Etherton Gallery, Tucson, is bringing an exquisite print of Ansel Adams’s Monolith, The Face of
Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, c. 1926. As Adams said, "This photograph
represents my first conscious visualization; in my mind's eye I saw (with reasonable
completeness) the final image as made with the red filter... The red filter did what I expected it
to do."
AIPAD 2012 PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Five panel discussions featuring leading curators, artists, dealers, and collectors will be held on
Saturday, March 31, 2012. Due to increased demand, the panels will be held for the first time at
a spacious auditorium at Hunter College in the Hunter West Building, Room HW615. (The
entrance to the Hunter West Building is located on the corner of East 68th Street and Lexington
Avenue, just one block from the Park Avenue Armory.) The panels are as follows:
10 a.m. | A Conversation with Rineke Dijkstra
Contemporary women photographers are being feted in a number of solo exhibitions at top
museums across the country this year. This interview with the internationally recognized Dutch
artist Rineke Dijkstra will offer a rare opportunity to hear about her inspirations and thoughts
before her upcoming retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in June 2012. The
interview will be conducted by Jennifer Blessing, curator, photography, Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York.
12 noon | Curator’s Choice: Emerging Artists in Photography
Two major exhibitions in New York City during the run of The AIPAD Photography Show New
York are of note – the Whitney Biennial 2012 at the Whitney Museum and Perspectives 2012 at
the International Center for Photography. This panel, moderated by Lindsay Pollock, editor in
chief, Art in America, will feature top curators discussing trends in photography and video.
Panelists will include: Sarah Meister, curator, department of photography, The Museum of
Modern Art; Christopher Phillips, curator, International Center for Photography, New York; and
Joshua Chuang, assistant curator, photography, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.
2 p.m. | How to Collect Photographs: What Collectors Need to Know Now
What important artists are being talked about right now? What do collectors need to know?
What art fairs should be on your calendar? How has the photography market changed in recent
years? Seasoned collectors will offer tips for both first- time and experienced buyers. Speakers
will include: Kenneth Montague, director, Wedge Curatorial Projects, Toronto; and Joseph Baio,
collector, New York. The moderator will be Steven Kasher, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York.
4 p.m. | A Celebration of Francesca Woodman
To commemorate the traveling retrospective of Francesca Woodman (organized by the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art) experts will talk about the importance of this
groundbreaking artist and her enduring legacy. Panelists will include: Julia Bryan-Wilson,
associate professor, art history, University of California, Berkeley; Sloan Keck, a designer and
friend of Francesca Woodman; and artist Elisabeth Subrin, assistant professor, department of
film and media arts, Temple University. The moderator will be Robert Klein, Robert Klein
Gallery, Boston.
6 p.m. | Italian Contemporary Photography
During the run of The AIPAD Photography Show New York, an important exhibition will be on
view at Hunter Art Gallery, New York. Peripheral Visions: Italian Photography, 1950s - Present
will showcase the work of major Italian photographers who have explored unconventional
images of Italy. The moderator will be Sandra Phillips, senior curator of photography at San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Speakers will include: Maria Antonella Pelizzari, exhibition
curator and professor in the history of photography, Hunter College and the Graduate Center,
CUNY; Yancey Richardson, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York; Julie Saul, Julie Saul Gallery,
New York; and Olivo Barbieri, artist.
Tickets are $10 per person per panel discussion. Tickets are sold separately and are available for
purchase at the Show during Show hours (Thursday - Saturday, as available). Tickets will not be
sold on-site at Hunter College.
Please note: AIPAD Panel Discussions are not sponsored by or affiliated with Hunter College or
any Entities of CUNY.
For further press information
Nicole Straus Public Relations
Nicole Straus, 631-369-2188, 917-744-1040 (cell), pr@aipad.com
Margery Newman, 212-475-0252,917-608-6306 (cell), pr@aipad.com
Image: Matthew Pillsbury, Tribute of Light, 2011. Pigment ink print, 30 x 40 inches.
Courtesy Bonni Benrubi Gallery
Park Avenue Armory
Park Avenue 643 at 67th Street - New York
Hours:
Thursday, March 29, 11am–7pm
Friday, March 30, 11am–7pm
Saturday, March 31, 11am–7pm
Sunday, April 1, 11am–6pm
Admission is $25 for one day and $40 for a four-day pass. Student admission is $10 with a valid
student ID. No advance purchase is required.
Tickets will be available at the door.