Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Florian Böhm, Wait for Walk @Cohen Amador

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JTF (just the facts): A total of 13 pigment prints, 3 in the panorama 22x65 format (in an edition of 5), the rest in standard rectangular ...
Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Phillips De Pury & Company Sold to Russian Luxury Retailer

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According to news reports, Phillips has sold a majority stake to the Moscow-based Mercury Group, a luxury retailer and owner of the TSUM de...

Auction: Important 19th & 20th Century Photographs, October 21, 2008 @Swann

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Over the years, Swann Galleries has carved out its own special niche in the photography auction market. In contrast to Sotheby's and C...
Monday, October 6, 2008

Chen Jiagang, The Great Third Front @Houk

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JTF (just the facts): 11 large scale Lambda prints, shown in two sizes, in the main gallery and the small adjoining room. 3 of the prints...
Friday, October 3, 2008

Auction: Inaugural Photographs Sale, October 17, 2008 @Bloomsbury New York

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As collectors, we see the the entry of Bloomsbury into the New York auction market as nothing but good news. The Gang of Four ( Sotheby...

Auction: Photographs, October 16, 2008 @Phillips

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Given the changes in the line up of specialists at Phillips over the years, it's not surprising that the character of its Photographs s...
Thursday, October 2, 2008

Auction: Photographs, October 14 and 15, 2008 @Sotheby's

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In the past few years, Sotheby's has solidified its place at the top of the Photographs heap by consistently unearthing a higher percen...
Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Books on Private Collections (Part 2)

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A few weeks ago, we began a two part series covering great books on private photography collections (the first post can be found here .) Tod...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

New Photography 2008: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky @MoMA

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JTF (just the facts): On one side of the gallery, 21 chromogenic prints, each approximately 40x50, negatives from 2006-2008. On the other...
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Monday, September 29, 2008

Auction: Photographs, October 14, 2008 @Christie's

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The last of the photography sales at Christie's New York this season is the various owner sale on October 14 th . This is the catch all...
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Friday, September 26, 2008

Auction: Contemporary Photography, October 13, 2008 @Christie's

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In previous posts about the Contemporary Art sales several weeks ago ( here and here ), we touched on the idea that the market would likely...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

Eye, Mind, Spirit: The Enduring Legacy of Minor White @Greenberg

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JTF (just the facts): 51 black and white images, displayed in the main gallery and the book alcove. (See installation photo at right.) Most...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Michel Szulc-Kryzanowski, The Early Sequences, 1977-1982 @Mann

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JTF (just the facts): 20 works, each comprising between 2 and 7 images in a series, together mounted on a 20x28 sheet and framed. Negative...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Auction: Photographs by William Eggleston from the Collection of Bruce and Nancy Berman, October 13, 2008 @Christie's

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Following up on the white glove sale of Diane Arbus prints from the Berman collection last spring, a second single artist sale from the sa...
Monday, September 22, 2008

Masao Yamamoto, Kawa = Flow @Yancey Richardson

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JTF (just the facts): 12 black and white images, approximately 9x7 or reverse, in editions of 20, framed in the main gallery (see installa...

Hiroh Kikai, Tokyo Labyrinth @Yancey Richardson

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JTF (just the facts): 7 prints, displayed in the Project Room. All later prints, from negatives in the 1970s/1980s, printed 16x20 in editio...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Out of Town Gallery Shows (Volume 1)

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With the new fall season upon us and the auction catalogues showing up on our doorstep on a daily basis, the posts in the next few weeks wil...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

Auction: Blanc et Demilly, October 13, 2008 @Millon et Associes, Paris

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My first interaction with the Millon auction house in Paris was a few years ago during the big Brassai sale. Getting comfortable with an u...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Vik Muniz, Verso @Sikkema Jenkins

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JTF (just the facts): A total of 23 works, 9 "backs of paintings" in the main room, and 14 "backs of photographs" in t...