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8/4/2008

The AIPAD Photography Show

Park Avenue Armory, New York

Gala Preview on April 9 to Benefit John Szarkowski Fund, Endowment for Photography Acquisitions at MoMA One of the most important international photography events, The AIPAD Photography Show New York, will be presented by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) from April 10 through 13, 2008. More than 75 of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum quality work by contemporary, modern and 19th century masters at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street and Park Avenue in New York City. The 28th edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York will open with a Gala Preview on April 9 to benefit the John Szarkowski Fund, an endowment for photography acquisitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The AIPAD Photography Show New York is the longest running and foremost exhibition of fine art photography. "The AIPAD Photography Show is renowned among connoisseurs of fine art photography as the place to find the best work on the market,” said Robert Klein, President, AIPAD, and President, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston. “This year, expect to see more large-scale contemporary work in newly designed, spacious booths."

The AIPAD Photography Show New York is presenting The Legacy of John Szarkowski, a short talk, panel discussion and documentary film, on Saturday, April 12, 2008, from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. in the Veteran’s Room at the Park Avenue Armory. Peter Galassi, Chief Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, will deliver a short talk, Photography Until Now: John Szarkowski’s Materialist History of Photography and moderate a panel discussion with AIPAD dealers whose lives were impacted by this legendary curator and photographer. Richard Woodward will introduce his prize-winning short documentary film John Szarkowski: A Life in Photography (Checkerboard Films, 1998). The film will be repeated at 1:00 p.m. Admission is free. Seating is extremely limited and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Exhibition Highlights
Several one-person exhibitions will be the highlights of The AIPAD Photography Show New York. Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, will devote their space to the photographs of John Szarkowski with an exhibition that will also include a selection of work by other artists that were inspired by and supported by him. Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, will show the work of Helen Levitt spanning a period from the late 1930s to the 1990s. For over six decades, her quiet, poetic photographs -- taken on the streets of New York City where she has lived most of her 95 years -- have inspired generations. Most recently, Helen Levitt: Un Art de l'accident poetique was featured at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, garnering rave reviews and major press coverage. The exhibition at The AIPAD Photography Show New York will feature well-known classics as well as recently discovered or lesser-known gems. Landscape photography will be well represented at The AIPAD Photography Show New York. Michael Hoppen Gallery Ltd., London, will exhibit Ken Griffiths’s sweeping panoramic views of the Three Gorges Dam, China’s largest building project since the Great Wall. The photographs, taken in 2002 and 2004, depict a lost landscape and the emergence of a new one.

The urban landscapes of Hong Kong-based photographer Michael Wolf will be on view at Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco. The artist raises issues of voyeurism and the role of architecture as he depicts intimate views of multiple apartment interiors. In November, Aperture will publish a book of his new work, The Transparent City, which was shot in Chicago. Wolf’s Architecture of Density series and the installation The Real Toy Story will be exhibited in London from March 15 through June 1 as part of China Design Now organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum. Silverstein Photography, New York, will show an installation by Zoe Strauss, whose work was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. The installation will incorporate work from her decadelong project I-95, which features photographs of downtrodden city dwellers, abandoned structures and bemusing signage and remnants of urban decay – all adhered to support piers on a highway overpass in Philadelphia the first weekend of each May. Evoking both loss and remembrance, the still-lifes of Laura Letinsky depicting abandoned tables after a meal will be on view at Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.

A famous photographic mystery will be the focus at Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Inc., New York. Apple tree, from L’Album Simart, assembled 1856-1860, is the work of an unidentified photographer attributed to the circle of French sculptor Pierre Charles Simart. The salt print from an enlarged glass negative was shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1981 and 1989. The enigmatic photographs from L’Album Simart have both captivated and puzzled artists and scholars for decades, and although the mystery persists, so does their visual power. Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York, will show a group of French 19th century photographs that have not been exhibited publicly since the 19th century. The 14 albumen prints by Louis Lafon, circa 1880s, depict French industrial interiors and grand public works – including The Louvre Museum under construction.

As always, outstanding modern and 20th century work will be on view at The AIPAD Photography Show New York: Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Switzerland, will exhibit Man Ray’s Film Still; Starfish, Foot, Book, 1928, a silver gelatin contact print from a film negative. Commerce Graphics Ltd., Inc., New York, will focus on iconic portraits: Berenice Abbott’s James Joyce, Paris, 1928 and Arnold Newman’s Igor Stravinsky, New York, 1946. Deborah Bell Photographs, New York, will offer Erwin Blumenfeld’s Matisse, Paris, 1937, a gelatin silver print. Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco, will exhibit Edward Weston’s Shells, a silver print from 1927. This rare example from Weston's monumental series of photographs of shells was chosen as the frontispiece for the book Edward Weston: Forms of Passion (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995). Wach Gallery, Avon Lake, OH, will show Ansel Adams’s gelatin silver print, Cliff Palace Ruin, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, circa 1942.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, Alec Soth has emerged as one of the premier photographers nationally and internationally. His photographs resonate with the paradoxical expressions of beauty, poverty, anonymity and familiarity. Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, will show images are from his recent book, Fashion Magazine: Paris Minnesota, published by Magnum in 2007. Alec Soth: The Space Between Us will open at the Jeu de Paume from April 15 though June 15. Also in Paris this spring, photographs by Patti Smith, the musician, poet and fine artist, can be seen at The Cartier Foundation, which is exhibiting an extensive exhibition of the artist’s work from March 28 through June 22, 2008. A gelatin silver print will be on view at Robert Miller Gallery, New York. Travelers Cloth With Pope Benedict XV Slippers, 2006, taken with a Polaroid Land camera, embodies the themes found in the “Pythagorean Traveler” an ongoing poem written by Smith.

Colby Caldwell’s vibrant photograph, how to survive your own death (3), 2007, an archival pigment print mounted on wood and waxed, will be exhibited by HEMPHILL, Washington, D.C. Photology, Milan, will contrast Andres Serrano’s The Morgue, Pneumonia Death, 1992, with several unique Polaroids by Andy Warhol, including Sex Parts, 1977. An iconic image by Burt Glinn, Andy Warhol with Edie Sedgwick and Chuck Wein, New York, 1965, a silver gelatin print, will be on view at Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica. Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA, will offer photographs by Stephen Salmieri, who grew up in Brooklyn and photographed Coney Island from 1966-1972. One portrait, a gelatin silver print from 1969, depicts a young boy at the beach wearing a towel like a superhero’s cape. Portraits by Edith Maybin that merge images of herself and her daughter will be on view at Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta. Work by the young Toronto-based artist can be found in the National Portrait Gallery in London and will be on view in New York for the first time at The AIPAD Photography Show New York. Recent work by Matthew Pillsbury will be on view at Bonni Benrubi Gallery, Inc., New York. An exhibition of Pillsbury’s work entitled Elapsed at the gallery will run concurrently with The AIPAD Photography Show New York. The artist, who lives in New York but was born and raised in Paris, won the HSBC prize for photography in 2007. His work is in major museums in the United States and London.

Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, will exhibit new landscapes of the Deep South which are manipulated with oil paint by John Folsom. The gallery will also bring work by Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, William Eggleston, Arno Minkkinen and Tina Barney. David Gallery, Culver City, CA, will show work by Stephen Wilkes including: Boy in Beijing, China 2007. In the China series, the artist manipulates the images by draining color from certain areas of his compositions so that they stand out significantly in relation to the rest. The images offer ravishing views of a society in a state of dramatic flux. Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris, will bring new work by the Dutch photographer Carla van de Puttelaar as well as recent work by the French photographer Laurence Demaison. Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, will show large-scale photographs of China by Wang Wusheng, who is inspired by the legacy of Chinese landscape painting. Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, will show Binh Danh’s Found Buddha 3, 2008, a chlorophyll print on grass in resin. The artist and his family escaped Vietnam by boat in 1979 ending up in a refugee camp in Malaysia. After Danh emigrated to the United States with his family, he was raised in a traditional Vietnamese household, where many of the family's Buddhist rituals were focused on the worship of ancestors. The themes of mortality, memory, and spirituality are an inspiration for Danh. His interest in science and different photographic techniques led him to invent a unique process which he termed chlorophyll prints, whereby the photographic image is transferred onto the surface of leaves via photosynthesis.

For more information or to purchase tickets, please contact The Museum of Modern Art, 212/708-9680 or specialevents@moma.org.

For further press information or visual materials, please contact:
Nicole Straus Public Relations
Nicole Straus, 631/369-2188 (tel), 917/744-1040 (cell), pr@aipad.com

Show Information
The AIPAD Photography Show New York will run from Thursday, April 10 through Sunday, April 13, 2008 at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street in New York City. Show hours will be:
Thursday, April 10 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Friday, April 11 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 12 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 13 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The admission is $25 daily and $35 for the run-of-show, and includes a show catalogue. No advance purchase is required. Tickets will be available at the door. For more information, the public can call AIPAD at 202/367-1158.

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