With an expanded program of exhibitions and events,
The Photography Show will be held March 30 – April 2, 2017, in
its new location at Pier 94. More than 115 galleries from around the world will
offer contemporary, modern, and 19th-century photographs as well as photo-based
art, video, and new media. Presented by AIPAD (the Association of International
Photography Art Dealers), the 37th edition of the Show will commence
with a Vernissage on Wednesday, March 29. One of the world’s most highly-anticipated
annual art fairs, the Show is the longest-running and foremost exhibition
dedicated to the photographic medium.
Highlights of the 2017 Show will
include more than a dozen AIPAD Talks featuring prominent curators, collectors,
artists, and journalists. Special exhibitions on loan from the noted
collections of Artur Walther, Martin Z. Margulies, and Madeleine P. Plonsker
will be on view. New projects will include portrait-making with the world’s
first digital camera, the AIPAD Screening Room, and an outdoor video projection.
“This is the most exciting, innovative,
and comprehensive Photography Show we have ever produced,” said Catherine Edelman, President, AIPAD, and President,
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago. “The anticipation of AIPAD's transformation
has energized the photography community, and collectors are telling me they are
greatly looking forward to the expanded offerings.”
Exhibitors
The
Photography Show will feature more than 115 galleries from across the U.S. and
around the world, including Europe, Asia, Canada, Mexico, the Middle East, and
South America. Four new sections –
Salon,
Gallery, Positions, and
Discovery –
will offer work from established and new AIPAD members and first-time
exhibitors, as well as younger galleries. In addition, more than 30 book
sellers and publishers will also be represented at the Show. A list of
exhibitors is available at:
aipadshow.com/Exhibitors AIPAD Talks will be held during the entire run of the Show from
Thursday, March 30 – Sunday, April 2.
Thursday, March 30
12:00 p.m. | ARTIST TALK: Albert Watson
With Tim B. Wride, William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator of
Photography, Norton Museum of Art
1:30 p.m. | ICP
PRESENTS “PERPETUAL REVOLUTION: THE IMAGE AND SOCIAL CHANGE”
Erin Barnett, ICP Director of Exhibitions and Collections; Kalia
Brooks, ICP Adjunct Curator; Joanna Lehan, ICP Adjunct Curator; artists TBA
3:00 p.m. | WHAT HAPPENED TO LOOKING AT
THE WORLD? Documentary, Surveillance and Contemporary Photography
Sandra Phillips, Curator Emerita, San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art; with artists Lucas Blalock, Susan Meiselas, and Trevor Paglen
4:30 p.m. | WHAT IT’S WORTH? Navigating Value in the Photo Market
Edward Yee, Primary Appraiser, Penelope
Dixon & Associates; Vivian Ebersman, Director, Art Expertise, AXA Art
Americas Corporation; Bill Hunt, collector and dealer; Bruce Silverstein, Bruce
Silverstein Gallery; and Sarah Morthland, ACM Services
Friday, March 31
12:00 p.m. | CURATOR
TALK: Corey Keller, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art
With Jean Dykstra, Editor, Photograph magazine
1:30 p.m. | WOMEN
IN THE PHOTO WORLD NOW
Renee Cox, artist; Sarah Douglas,
Editor-in-Chief, ARTnews; Janaina
Tschäpe, artist; and Kathryn Wat, Chief
Curator, National Museum of Women in the Arts
3:00 p.m. | ARTIST
TALK: James Balog and Extreme Ice, Rare Trees, and Endangered Animals
With Anne Wilkes Tucker, Curator
Emerita, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
4:30 p.m. | CUBAN PHOTOGRAPHY THEN AND NOW
Ana Dopico, Associate Professor, New
York University; David Gonzalez, Co-Editor, The
New York Times Lens Blog; Madeleine Plonsker, collector
Saturday, April 1
12:00 p.m. | CURATOR
TALK: Jeff L. Rosenheim, Metropolitan
Museum of Art
1:30 p.m. | LEE
FRIEDLANDER: A Life in Books
Lee Friedlander, artist; Maria
Friedlander; and Giancarlo Roma, Haywire Press
3:00 p.m. | VISION
& JUSTICE
Sarah Lewis, Assistant Professor
Harvard University; Deana
Lawson, artist; with Michael Famighetti, Editor, Aperture magazine
4:30 p.m. | COLLECTOR
TALK: Martin Margulies
With Lindsay Pollock, Editor-in-Chief, Art in America
Sunday, April 2
12:00 p.m. | ARTIST
TALK: Shirin Neshat
With Amei Wallach, author, critic, and
filmmaker
1:30 p.m. | COLLECTOR
TALK: Artur Walther
With Simon Baker, Senior Curator, Tate
Modern
3:00 p.m. | WHEN
IS DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY ART?
James Estrin, Co-Editor, The New York Times Lens Blog; Kristen Lubben, Executive Director, Magnum Foundation;
Sam Barzilay, Creative Director, United Photo Industries and Photoville; and
artists Diana Markosian and Joshua Rashaad McFadden
4:30 p.m. | IN
CONVERSATION: VINCE ALETTI AND DAWOUD BEY: Starting Out in New York City With Steven
Kasher, Steven Kasher Gallery
Space for AIPAD
Talks is limited, and seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Tickets are $10 per session. More information is at aipadshow.com/talks AIPAD Screening Room
Presented by Mary Engel, the AIPAD Screening Room will feature
films by and about James Agee, Martin Bell, Morris Engel, Susan Griak, William
Klein, Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, Mary Ellen Mark, Gordon Parks, and Weegee.
Portraits by Lucien Samaha
Photographer Lucien Samaha will make portraits of fairgoers with the
world’s first digital camera, a prototype from Kodak labs, at the Show.
Subjects, who can sign up online (a link will be announced shortly), will be
able to pick up 8 x 10 inch prints at the end of the day. The cost will be
$100. Samaha (b. 1958, Beirut) began photographing in the early 1970s. He has
traveled the world, capturing flight attendants, drag queens, and clubbers as
well as the streets of war torn Lebanon. While working at Kodak in 1991, he was
assigned to the team that launched the world’s first digital camera, and
consequently, as the only photographer on the team, was the first person to
photograph with it. Samaha’s work has been exhibited nationally and
internationally. He lives and works in New York.
Colleen Plumb: Path Infinitum will explore the complexities of keeping
wild animals in captivity and raises questions about what it means to
participate as a spectator of animals. Path Infinitum (2017, 26 min., color video, looped) has grown out of Plumb's
ongoing project, Thirty Times a Minute, a video project exploring
elephants in captivity. Path Infinitum
will be projected on the façade of Pier 94 during the run of the Show. Work by Collen
Plumb (b. 1970, Chicago) is held in several permanent collections and has
been widely exhibited, including the Portland Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum,
and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, among others. Radius
Books published her first monograph, The
Animals are Outside Today, in 2011. She lives and works in Chicago.
Awards and Honors
The Arnold Newman Prize
for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture is awarded annually as a
tribute to Arnold Newman’s lasting contributions to the fields of portraiture
and teaching. Generously funded by the Arnold and Augusta Newman foundation in
Arnold’s honor, the $20,000 prize is the second largest photo prize in the U.S.
It is designed to launch the career of a winner whose work demonstrates a new
vision in portraiture and allow them to pursue a groundbreaking project. Maine
Media Workshops + College administers the prize, as the Newmans were an
integral part of the summer workshop community for over 30 years. This year,
the winner will be announced March 29 at 7 p.m., and booth 610 will feature
work by the winner and three finalists.
The AIPAD Award honors visionaries who
have contributed to the field of photography including artists, curators,
publishers, and others. The first recipients of the newly inaugurated annual
award are Sandra Phillips, longtime curator of photography at the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, and Anne Wilkes Tucker, founding curator of photography
at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Both curators will be honored in a public
celebration during The Photography Show.
Show Information
The Photography Show
presented by AIPAD will run from Thursday, March 30 – Sunday, April 2, 2017, at
Pier 94 at 12th Avenue and 55th Street in New York City. Show
hours are as follows:
Thursday, March 30, 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Friday, March 31, 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 1, 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 2, 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Admission is $30. Student admission is
$20 with a valid student ID. Tickets may be purchased online at
aipadshow.com/tickets and onsite
throughout the duration of the Show. For more information, the public can
contact AIPAD at +1-202-367-1158 or
[email protected] or
visit
aipadshow.com.
Opening Night Preview
Wednesday, March 29
A vernissage for
The Photography Show will be held on Wednesday, March 29, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
at Pier 94. Tickets are $75 and ($250 for early access from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00
p.m.) and may be purchased
online at
aipadshow.com/tickets.
For more information, visit
aipadshow.com.
Media Preview
Wednesday,
March 29, 2 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
A
Media Preview will be held for The Photography Show on Wednesday,
March 29, 2017, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. To RSVP, please contact Margery Newman
at
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Online Catalogue on Artsy
This year, Artsy will host the official online catalogue of The
Photography Show Presented by AIPAD on Artsy.net and the Artsy app for iPhone
& iPad. Visitors to The Photography Show on Artsy can access the fair
program and inquire on artworks for sale starting on March 23, 2017.
AIPAD Background
Founded in 1979,
The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) represents
more than 120 of the world’s leading galleries in fine art photography. AIPAD
is dedicated to creating and maintaining the highest standards of scholarship
and ethical practice in the business of exhibiting, buying, and selling fine
art photography. More information is available at
www.aipad.com.