For Immediate Release
UPDATED INFORMATION
THE AIPAD PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW NEW YORK
APRIL 16-19, 2015
PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Luis González Palma, Mobius (untitled), 2014
Photograph on canvas with acrylic paint, 12 x 12 inches
Courtesy Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix
New York – Celebrating its 35th edition, The AIPAD Photography Show New York, one of the
world’s most highly anticipated annual photography events, will be held April 16-19, 2015, at the
Park Avenue Armory. Presented by The Association of International Photography Art Dealers
(AIPAD), the fair is the longest-running and foremost exhibition dedicated to the photographic
medium.
Eighty-nine of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of
museum-quality work, including contemporary, modern, and 19th-century photographs as well as
photo-based art, video, and new media. The Show will commence with an opening night preview
on April 15 and for the first time will benefit the 92nd Street Y.
“Since 1980, collectors have depended on the expertise of AIPAD galleries,” said Catherine
Edelman, president of AIPAD and director of the Catherine Edelman Gallery. “We are honored to
present the 35th edition of the Show, which has evolved to become the go-to art fair for
photography collectors at all levels.”
The AIPAD Photography Show New York will feature galleries from across the U.S. and around the
world, including Canada, Europe, Asia, and South America. New exhibitors this year include Les
Filles Du Calvaire, Paris, and See+ Gallery, Beijing.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
A number of noteworthy portraits will be on view at AIPAD. Fred McDarrah’s 1966 print of Andy
Warhol will be at Steven Kasher Gallery, New York. McDarrah was the Village Voice’s only staff
photographer for decades. Burt Stern’s iconic images of Marilyn Monroe will be a highlight at
Staley-Wise Gallery, New York. Alfred Stieglitz’s 1930 palladium print of Georgia O’Keeffe can be
seen at Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York and Zurich. Man Ray’s 1930 photograph of Andre Breton
will be shown at Hyperion Press Ltd., New York. A portrait of the young James Baldwin, made in
1955, the year Notes of a Native Son was published, will be exhibited at Alan Klotz Gallery, New
York. One of the few female jazz photographers working in New York in the 1950s, Carol Reiff,
made portraits of Chet Baker and Miles Davis, among other jazz greats. Her work will be shown at
Michael Dawson Gallery, Los Angeles.
Two San Francisco galleries will show work by Ansel Adams. Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San
Francisco, will have a rare 1935 print Burned Stump and New Grass, Sierra Nevada by Adams. In
addition, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, will show a group of 12 prints of Ansel Adams’s
legendary 1941 photograph Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, which were defaced with a Wells
Fargo check-canceling machine in the late 1960s or early 1970s. It wasn’t the work of a vandal.
Adams had noticed that the paper was defective and sent the prints to the Illford paper company
so they could see the imperfections. While the images are no longer fine exhibition prints, they do
have a unique place in Adams’s body of work.
For the last three years, Alec Soth has been traveling the country, making large-format works for a
series called Songbook, dealing with community life in the U.S. His new photographs will be
exhibited at Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis.
Berlin-based photographer Michael Najjar may well become the first artist planning to visit outer
space. To prepare for the trip of a lifetime, Najjar is actively training at aerospace centers in
Germany, Russia, and the U.S. His new photographs can be seen at Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New
York.
In 1900, the sculptor Auguste Rodin had a falling out with his photographer while preparing an
exhibition for the Pavillon de l’Alma in Paris. An amateur photographer named Jean Francois
Limet, who was in charge of the patinas on Rodin’s sculptures, was assigned to the job. His
remarkable results (which include using nearly the same products as those he employed for his
patinas) are on view at Contemporary Works/Vintage Works, Chalfont, PA.
In the early days of photography, Captain Linnaeus Tripe took among the first images of India and
Burma in the 1850s. His work can be seen in an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
through May 25 and in the booths of Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York, Hans P. Kraus Jr.
Fine Photographs, New York, and Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco.
Recently discovered contact prints of burlesque dancers backstage at a New York theater, shot in
1936 by Margaret Bourke-White, will be the focus at Daniel Blau, Munich. The photographs have
not been seen by the public since then.
Images of the events that ended World War II – the 1945 dropping of the atom bomb in Hiroshima
and Nagasaki – will be exhibited by Gary Edwards Gallery, Washington. Howard Greenberg
Gallery, New York, will show images from the Zapruder film of President Kennedy’s assassination,
among the most studied 26 seconds in film history. Whitney Curtis covered the protests last year
in Ferguson, Missouri. His photographs will be exhibited by Monroe Gallery of Photography, Santa
Fe.
Work by contemporary Cuban artists, many never seen before in the U.S., will be on view at
Robert Mann Gallery, New York. The gallery is showing the photographs at AIPAD in conjunction
with their spring show, The Light in Cuban Eyes. A book of the same name is being published this
spring by Lake Forest Press. The Cuban-born artist Mario Algaze is known for his observant and
witty street photography. Several of his striking urban landscapes from Cuba and Peru made
between 1999 and 2002 will be exhibited at Throckmorton Fine Art, New York.
Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, will present a one-person exhibition of the work of Luis González
Palma, who portrays the soul of a people in his portraits of individuals of Mayan descent and
others of mixed heritage in his native Guatemala. Using a range of exotic photographic techniques,
collage elements, and painted surfaces, he seeks to find a balance between magical realism and
concretism, which uses mathematical, graphic, and spatial elements. The work has recently been
published in a new book by La Fabrica, Madrid.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Katsumi Watanabe photographed bar hostesses, drag queens,
and gangsters in Shinjuku, a section of Tokyo which lays claim to the busiest train station in the
world. Watanabe worked as a “drifting portrait photographer” who would ask his subjects if they
would like to buy portraits of themselves and would then return with the photographs the next
day. When the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art first showed his work in 1974, he began to
travel around the world, but he always returned to Shinjuku. His portraits will be shown at Taka
Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Paris, and New York.
Contemporary one-of-a-kind and process-oriented images will be on view at Von Lintel Gallery,
Los Angeles, which will present work by Klea McKenna, Floris Neusüss, and Wendy Small, and
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, which will be showing pieces by Matthew Brandt, John Chiara, Chris
McCaw, and Alison Rossiter.
EXHIBITORS
798 Photo Gallery, Bejing | Alan Klotz Gallery, New York | Barry Singer, Petaluma, CA | Baudoin
Lebon, Paris | Benrubi Gallery, New York | Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London | Bruce Silverstein,
New York | Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York | Catherine Couturier, Houston | Catherine
Edelman Gallery, Chicago | Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, OR | Charles Isaacs
Photographs, Inc., New York | Charles Schwartz Ltd., New York | ClampArt, New York |
Contemporary Works/Vintage Works, Chalfont, PA | Daniel Blau, London | Danziger Gallery,
New York | Deborah Bell Photographs, New York | Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York and Zurich |
Eric Franck Fine Art, London | Etherton Gallery, Tucson | Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles |
Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris | Galerie f5,6, Munich | Gallery 19/21, Guilford, CT | Gallery
Fifty One, Antwerp | Gary Edwards Gallery, Washington | Gitterman Gallery, New York |
Grimaldi Gavin, London | Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Stockholm and Berlin | HackelBury Fine
Art, London | Halsted Gallery, Franklin, MI | Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Inc., New York | Henry Feldstein,
Forest Hills, NY | Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York | Hyperion Press Limited, New York |
Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta | James Hyman, London | Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco | Joel
Soroka Gallery, Aspen, CO | Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA | Julie Saul Gallery, New York |
Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York | Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY | Kopeikin Gallery, Los
Angeles | L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, New York | Laurence Miller Gallery, New York | Lee
Gallery, Winchester, MA | Lee Marks Fine Art, Shelbyville, IN | Les Filles Du Calvaire, Paris | Lisa
Sette Gallery, Phoenix, | M97 Gallery, Shanghai | Michael Dawson Gallery, Los Angeles | Michael
Hoppen Gallery, London | Michael Shapiro Photographs, Westport, CT | Monroe Gallery of
Photography, Santa Fe, NM | Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York | Paci Contemporary, Brescia
and Porto Cerrvo, Italy | Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco | PDNB Gallery, Dallas | Peter
Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | Photo Gallery International, Tokyo | Picture Photo Space,
Osaka, Japan | Richard Moore Photographs, Oakland, CA | Rick Wester Fine Art, New York |
Robert Burge/20th Century Photographs, Ltd., New York | Robert Klein Gallery, Boston | Robert
Koch Gallery, San Francisco | Robert Mann Gallery, New York | RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA |
Sasha Wolf, New York | Scheinbaum & Russek, Santa Fe, NM | Scott Nichols Gallery, San
Francisco | See+ Gallery, Beijing | Staley-Wise Gallery, New York | Stephen Bulger Gallery,
Toronto | Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL | Steven Kasher Gallery, New York | Taka Ishii
Gallery, Tokyo, Paris, and New York | The Weston Gallery, Inc., Carmel, CA | Throckmorton Fine
Art, New York | Vasari, Buenos Aires | VERVE Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, NM | Von Lintel
Gallery, Los Angeles | Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis | William L. Schaeffer, Chester, CT |
Winter Works on Paper, Inc., Brooklyn | Yancey Richardson, New York | Yossi Milo Gallery, New
York
SHOW INFORMATION
The AIPAD Photography Show New York will run from Thursday, April 16, through Sunday, April
19, 2015, at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street in New York City. Show hours are as follows:
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
April 16
April 17
April 18
April 19
11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Admission is $30. Student admission is $20 with a valid student ID. No advance purchase is
required. Tickets will be available at the door. The AIPAD Membership Directory and Illustrated
Catalogue is $20. For more information, the public can contact AIPAD at 202-367-1158 or
[email protected] or visit aipad.com.
MEDIA PREVIEW
A Media Preview will be held for The AIPAD Photography Show New York from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00
p.m. on Wednesday, April 15, 2015. To RSVP, please contact Margery Newman at [email protected].
OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW
An opening night preview for The AIPAD Photography Show New York will be held on Wednesday,
April 15, 2015, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Park Avenue Armory to benefit the 92nd Street Y.
Tickets for 5 p.m., which include two single-day tickets and one copy of the AIPAD Membership
Directory and Illustrated Catalogue, are $250 each. Tickets for 7 p.m., which include a one-day
Show pass, are $150 each. To order tickets, please go to aipad.com/tickets.
AIPAD 2015 PUBLIC PROGRAMS
SATURDAY, APRIL 18
A full day of programming – including short films, a talk, and a panel discussion – will feature
prominent leaders in the world of fine art photography. The schedule is as follows:
10 – 11 a.m.
ART21 Short Films, Part 1
ART21 presents a selection of short films featuring artists working with photography today,
including Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Martha Colburn, Liz Magic Laser, Shana Moulton, Jacolby
Satterwhite, Mika Rottenberg, Mika Tajima, and Bryan Zanisnik.
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
A Talk with Artist Mary Mattingly
The noted photographer will be interviewed by ART21 associate curator Wesley Miller.
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
ART21 Short Films, Part 2
ART21 presents a selection of short films featuring artists working with photography today,
including Lucas Blalock, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Daniel Gordon, Rashid Johnson, Mary Mattingly,
Mariah Robertson, and Erin Shirreff.
1:45 – 2:45 p.m.
From Darkroom to Daylight
This short documentary by Harvey Wang explores how the dramatic change from film to digital has
affected photographers and their work and includes interviews with Sally Mann, Jerome Liebling,
George Tice, and Ruud van Empel.
3 – 4 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Photography and Its Reproductions
The digital globalization of photography has had a number of both positive and negative effects on
the medium: heightening awareness of it, making it inescapably ubiquitous, inspiring new
visualization techniques, and more. Panelists include Carol Squires, curator, International Center of
Photography; Lev Manovick, professor, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and
director, Software Studies Initiative; and Kate Steciw, artist.
More information is available at aipad.com/2015public.
BOOK SIGNINGS
A schedule of book signings during AIPAD is available at aipad.com/2015signings.
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