On March 31, The Photography Show presented by theiPad (The Association of International Photography Art Dealers) returns to New York for its 42nd edition, making it one of the oldest and most important fairs dedicated to the photographic medium.
Highly targeted and members-only, this fair brings together a roster of 45 leading galleries at Center415 in New York through April 2, 2023. Exhibitors will showcase newly released, museum-quality works. On display will be contemporary, modern and 19th century photography, photographic art, video, new media and, for the very first time, NFT.
Among the many highlights of this year’s edition is a special exhibition titled « Highlights from the Archive » : Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of MUUS Collection, which features works by André de Dienes, Fred W. McDarrah, Deborah Turbeville, Rosalind Fox Solomon and Alfred Wertheimer. The exhibition explores each artist’s personal approach to portraiture, and offers a brief overview of emblematic or little-known works.
When life imitates art
In his 1889 essay titled The decadence of liesOscar Wilde observed: “Life imitates Art much more than Art imitates life” – a maxim that resonates with the current state of the world, where the proliferation of visual culture has transformed our gaze.
This photography fair highlights artists whose work has shaped notions of identity, community and culture across generations. Yancey Richardsonin New York, presents for example works from the flagship series of the American photographer Larry Sultan (1946-2009), Pictures From Homewhich coincides with the show of the same name at Broadway.
The Gitterman Gallery New York will exhibit the work of Roger Mayne (1929-2014), whose photographs of teenage life on the streets of West London in the 1950s and 1960s have entered cultural history as ” image” of British adolescence.
Benjamin Ogilvy Projects in Arlington, MA, brings together works from the groundbreaking “Gay Semiotics” series by Hal Fischer. Exhibited for the first time in 1977 in San Francisco, this humorous, sometimes subversive reading of the life of homosexuals in the Californian city, has become a reference work.
Through the looking glass
“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible”writes the British author Lewis Carroll in Through the looking glass, a lesson in the power of creativity, commitment and willpower. At the forefront, artists foresee what awaits us and guide us to new spaces where the boundaries between imagination and reality blur.
At the gallery Clamp in New York, presents an exhibition devoted to queer portraiture over the past century, including works by George Platt Lynes, Nan Goldin, Meryl Meisler and James Bidgood (1933-2022), a revolutionary photographer and filmmaker who produced shows about the beauty of male desire at a time when homosexuality was still considered a crime.
At the gallery Catherine Couturier of Houston presents the works of Patty Carroll, from the ongoing series “Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise”. In this delirious collection of rogue luxury objects, Carroll stages scenes of death that occur during the search for the “perfect house”. It’s a timely reminder that creation demands that we find the balance between our vision, our ambitions, and what it takes to succeed, lest we lose control of our passions and end up being destroyed by those same dreams. .
The photography fair is presented by AIPAD from March 31 to April 2, 2023, at Center415, 415 Fifth Avenue, New York.
