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AIPAD 2012
Michael H.Berkowitz

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1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought?
My parents would bring me to MOMA when I was a kid and I would always head straight to the photography collection. I would get lost in the images by Arbus, Eggleston, Penn and Avedon...

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AIPAD 2012
Vince Aletti

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1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought?
Casually, compulsively, and mostly at flea markets, where I bought cartes de visite portraits, real-photo postcards, and stereo views, starting in the late 1960s. The first photographs I sp...

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Houston 2012: Suzanne Paul by Elizabeth Avedon

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"There is a belief in many cultures that the camera is capable of stealing the human soul or spirit. Suzanne Paul's camera may not steal the soul, but it certainly captures it and the spirit within." – Clint Willour, Director of the Galveston Arts Center

02.04.2012[ read full story ]

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AIPAD 2012, Yancey Richardson Gallery

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The Yancey Richardson Gallery invites this year’s viewers to be enthralled by flowers, vibrant and faded, blooming and decayed, always in their vase except for those that decided to escape. This contemporary, conceptual series by the photographer Sharon Core was inspired the trad...

28.03.2012[ read full story ]

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AIPAD 2012, Steven Kasher Gallery

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As if often the case with the Kasher Gallery, the human is the center of attention. Accra Shepp’s visual journal, containing black-and-white portraits of the indignant protesters of Occupy Wall Street, is being sold for a modest price. Vivian Maier also photographed the human, but in...

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AIPAD 2012
Scott Nichols Gallery

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Vintage black-and-white photographs have pride of place at the Scott Nichols Gallery of San Francisco: Ansel Adams’ famous birch trees, a beautiful portrait of Truman Capote by Irving Penn, a glistening nude by Ruth Bernhard, a kiss by Mona Kuhn and a moonlit beach by Wynn Bullock. ...

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AIPAD 2012, Hans P. Kraus Fine Photographs

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For this Park Avenue gallery who has only a few steps to take to get to the AIPAD, photography began in the middle of the 19th century. The gallery reminds us of these beginnings with pictures by Charles Simart, William Henry Fow Talbot, Henri Courmont or Rufus Anson. Often...

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AIPAD 2012, Bruce SIlverstein Gallery

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The Bruce Silverstein Gallery of New York loves eclecticism. The stand offers pictures from all photography styles. The photographers include André Kertész, Aaron Siskind, Michael Wolf, Robert Frank, Edward Steichen or Lisette Model. From still lifes, curious lighting, reflectio...

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Art Dubaï now opens to Photography

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When it comes to art, Dubai is the Mecca of the Middle East, with the Madinat Jumeirah taking place of the Kaaba. For the past few years, the world’s art buyers have been coming to take in the sumptuous exoticism of the city’s art fair, ArtDubai. The region’s hottest of its kind, A...

27.03.2012[ read full story ]

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AIPAD 2012
Staley Wise Gallery

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A variety of renowned fashion photographers can be purchased on New York Gallery Staley Wise’s stand. From the jet-set photographer Slim Aarons to the late Lilian Bassman; from Deborah Turbeville to the provocative Helmut Newton: a collection of some of the best pictures in this cate...

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