Every Booth at the 2013 AIPAD Photography Show, Part 3 of 6

Start here for Part 1 of this series. It provides some background and explanation for what's going on in these lists.

Alan Klotz Gallery (here): Josef Sudek, $14000. Not every Sudek table top still life is as active as this one with its shuddering multiplied egg reflection.

Michael Shapiro Photographs (here): Lewis Baltz, $28000. Prices for vintage Baltz prints have sure come up quite a bit in recent years, but this image is the kind I appreciate most. I love the circles on the left as an addition to the rectangular geometries, all executed in middle grey with a dash to dark black at the bottom.

Photo Gallery International (here): Yasuhiro Ishimoto, $7400. This fiery Ishimoto abstraction reminded me of a Morris Louis Color Field painting.

Galerie f5,6 (here): Anne Schwalbe, $2500. Each of the Schwalbe images on display was dominated by a single subtle color hue. This pink wall was quietly refined.

Peter Fetterman Gallery (here): Sebastiao Salgado, $50000. This huge print was shown on the exterior wall, the river at the bottom of the mountain valley shining like a white line.

James Hyman Gallery (here): Gustave Le Gray, $35000. I didn't realize Le Gray had made images in Egypt, so this stone gate was an unexpected surprise.

Robert Klein Gallery (here): Francesca Woodman, $55000. This elegant image is actually a video still from one of Woodman's film projects. I like the mix of torn paper and revealed body.

Bonni Benrubi Gallery (here): Stephane Couturier, 11000€. The immediately identifiable architecture of Brasilia, reconsidered via interlocked image fragment puzzle pieces.

Barry Singer Gallery (here): Lotte Jacobi, $6500. A hallmark of high contrast, unbalanced composition, the big black circle offsetting the oval face and its defined lips.

Hyperion Press Limited (here): Man Ray, NFS. A tiny print, but still impressive.

Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd. (here): Walter Chappell, $3000. Carrot tops that seem to glow with internal light.

Steven Kasher Gallery (here): Irving Penn, $75000. There were plenty of Penns at AIPAD, but this one was my favorite. I like the twisted silhouettes passing through the glass and wine bottle.

Robert Burge/20th Century Photographs (here): D.W. Mellor, $3500 each. A theme and variation sonata of ovals and waved forms in this grid of abstractions.

Continue to Part 4 here.

Snapshots from Paris Photo, Part 3

Another exhibition on view during the fair was Primitifs de la photographie. Le calotype en France (1843 - 1860) at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (here). A selection of snapshots can be found below, with artist information underneath. Apparently, the Adalbert Cuvelier prints were particularly outstanding.

Adalbert Cuvelier

Adalbert Cuvelier

Adalbert Cuvelier

Adalbert Cuvelier

Édouard Baldus

Édouard Baldus

Henri Courmont

Eugene Cuvelier

JB Greene

Gustave Le Gray

FE Le Dien

Henri Le Secq

Henri Victor Regnault

Henri Victor Regnault

Louis Vignes

As an aside, while our dedicated correspondent was also eager to take pictures at the Kertész show at the Jeu de Paume (here), the "No Photography" police unfortunately cramped his style.

Auction: Photographs, May 21, 2010 @Christie's South Kensington

The upcoming Christie's Photographs sale takes place at the South Kensington office in London later this week, and this particular location (in contrast to the King Street space) is often a signal of lower end material. 44 of the lots in this sale come from the collection of picture editor Norman Hall, and there are quite a few Brandt nudes mixed in across the action. Overall, there are a total of 111 lots on offer, with a Total High Estimate of £797500. (Catalog cover at right, via Christie's.)

Here's the statistical breakdown:

Total Low Lots (high estimate up to and including £5000): 67

Total Low Estimate (sum of high estimates of Low lots): £173500

Total Mid Lots (high estimate between £5000 and £25000): 37

Total Mid Estimate: £404000

Total High Lots (high estimate above £25000): 7

Total High Estimate: £220000

The top lot by High estimate is lot 47, Gustave Le Gray, View across the Nile, 1867, at £30000-40000. (Image at right, via Christie's.)

Here is the list of the photographers who are represented by three or more lots in the sale (with the number of lots in parentheses):

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Henri Cartier-Bresson (9)

Helmut Newton (8)
Bill Brandt (7)

Irving Penn (7)

Mario Giacomelli (5)

Robert Mapplethorpe (5)

Brett Weston (5)

Cecil Beaton (3)
Robert Doisneau (3)
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The complete lot by lot catalog can be found here. The eCatalogue is located here.

Photographs

May 21st

Christie's

85 Old Brompton Road

London SW7 3LD