Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Out of Town Gallery Shows (Volume 2)

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Earlier in the fall, we offered a list of out of town gallery shows that we would have enjoyed seeing, had we been in the right city at the ...

Auction: Photographs, November 22, 2008 @Phillips London

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Given the nature of the auction business, it is often the case that collections and groups of work are sold all at once, the result of death...

Short Note on Auction Results

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One quick clarification on our Auction Results posts. We tend to get our summary statistics on auctions out rather quickly, often just a day...
Monday, November 10, 2008

New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937-1940 @Met

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JTF (just the facts): 24 framed diptychs, consisting of 67 black and white images, 6 poems, and an excerpt from the New Yorker, mounted to...
Friday, November 7, 2008

Ralston Crawford @Zabriskie

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JTF (just the facts): A total of 25 works of art: 4 paintings, 4 drawings/watercolors, and 17 photographs, shown through the main gallery ...
Thursday, November 6, 2008

Paris Photo, November 13-16, 2008

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Paris Photo opens next week, but unfortunately, we won't be going this year. According to the show website ( here ), there will be 86 ga...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Auction: Photographs, November 18, 2008 @Sotheby's London

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The upcoming Photographs sale at Sotheby's New Bond Street is a perfectly respectable gathering of items, with a representative sample ...
Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Auction Results Fall 2008: Saturday @Phillips, Bonhams & Butterfields, and Yann Le Mouel

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It’s time for a results roundup from the auctions in the past few weeks. We’ll cover three sales: Saturday @Phillips (New York), Bonhams ...
Monday, November 3, 2008

Halsted Visit

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Wendy Halsted Beard from the Halsted Gallery (website here ) came by our house for a visit last week, and as always, we had a terrific tim...

Auction: Photographs, November 19, 2008 @Christie's King Street

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Whether gallery owners (or artists for that matter) feel comfortable with how auction houses have been expanding their scope of influence ov...
Friday, October 31, 2008

Photography in the New York Times

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Back in September, I was reading Holland Cotter's review of Catherine Opie's retrospective at the Guggenheim (which we will cover s...

Happy Halloween!

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If you are a collector focused mostly on "vintage" photography (like us), it is easy to lose sight of what it means to be a workin...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Photo Book Grab Bag

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One of the ways we approach the process of teaching ourselves about photography in its many forms is to always be on the lookout for photo b...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Auction: La Photographie IV: Collection Marie-Therese et Andre Jammes, November 15, 2008 @Sotheby's

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The catalogue for the final part of the Jammes sale arrived a week or so ago, and I must admit, it feels somewhat bittersweet. During our y...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

New Exhibits @JGS Forward Thinking Museum

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The JGS Forward Thinking Museum is brimming with photography exhibits worth checking out. If you haven't visited the museum before, it ...
Monday, October 27, 2008

Auction: Photographs, Featuring Works from the Estate of Dan Berley, November 21, 2008 @Rago

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It's easy to get lulled into thinking that the only photography auctions worth following are those of the top two (or four, or however m...
Friday, October 24, 2008

Jeff Curto's History of Photography Podcast

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For the past month or so, I've been listening to a History of Photography podcast when I have some time to fill on a train or airplane. ...
Thursday, October 23, 2008

In Search Of: Imogen Cunningham Tuberose

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Virtually every photography collector we have ever met has a short list of pictures that they are constantly searching for. Every time a new...

Auction: Photographies, October 29, 2008 @Yann Le Mouel, Paris

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With the New York season tailing off, we are now moving onward to the European fall season, with Yann Le Mouel (Paris) the first up. The m...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Weston Elbow Revisited

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A reader posted an insightful comment on the Edward Weston, Elbow , 1935, (poor image at right, taken from the catalog) from the recent Chr...

Auction Results Fall 2008: Bloomsbury and Swann

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Sales at Bloomsbury and Swann (last Friday and yesterday respectively) continued this year's New York auction season. Both sales had a ...