THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY
AIPAD’s Photography Show returns to the historic Park Avenue Armory April 25-28, with 77 galleries from around the world showing photography from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. The show’s VIP Preview is Thursday, April 25, 12 - 8 pm, and the AIPAD Award will be presented to critic, curator, and collector Vince Aletti at 5:30 pm.
The following evening, Friday, April 26, 5 - 8 pm, is the Night of Photography. Presented in collaboration with the International Center of Photography to celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Night of Photography welcomes new collectors and connoisseurs for an evening of programming, including in-booth artist talks and presentations, book signings, and an AIPAD Talk featuring a panel of photography experts and collectors. Join us for this festive evening as we celebrate collecting photography with light music and complimentary refreshments.
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The Photobook + Partners Sector this year includes 23 publishers and organizations, from Aperture to Minor Matters, the Penumbra Foundation, and the American Photography Archives Group. AIPAD is also welcoming a number of non-member guest exhibitors to the fair this year, including Candela Gallery, from Richmond, VA; ELLEPHANT, from Montreal; Magnum Gallery, from New York City; Photo Discovery, from Paris; and The Third Gallery Aya, from Osaka, Japan, among others.
AIPAD members and guest exhibitors will be bringing a range of top-quality photographs by emerging artists and established masters.
MONUMENTAL: Selections of large-scale works from The Photography Show’s 2024 Exhibitors, featured on path through the fair and showcasing the possibilities of scale in fine art photography.
Pieter Henket, La Mujer from the series Birds of Mexico, 2021.
Courtesy of The Hulett Collection
A HANDFUL OF HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE FAIR
Deborah Bell is showing a mix of American and European artists, including two vivid, punchy color photographs taken in the last two years of the outdoor dining sheds that popped up during the pandemic by Dutch artist Wijnanda Deroo, which point to both the haphazard and the playful nature of the structures, located in this case in the East Village. In contrast, Bell is also showing a soft, light-dappled tree-lined footpath in black and white by August Sander from the 1930s and a spare, minimal landscape of Hotspur, Kansas, that is, in fact, mostly sky, by Marcia Resnick. Also on view, one of Deborah Turbeville’s iconic, languorous black-and-white images of models posing in a bathhouse.
Wijnanda Deroo, East 7th St. & Avenue A, New York, 2023.
Courtesy Deborah Bell Photographs
Deborah Turbeville, Asser Levy Bathhouse (New York), 1975 for VOGUE.
Courtesy Deborah Bell Photographs
Marcia Resnick, Landscape #2 (Hotspur, Kansas), 1975.
Courtesy Deborah Bell Photographs
August Sander,Footpath in the Drachefels, Siebengebirge [Germany], ca. 1930s.
Courtesy Deborah Bell Photographs
Wijnanda Deroo,First Avenue & 1st Street, New York, 2024.
Courtesy Deborah Bell Photographs
Sanjay Suchak, Robert E. Lee Monument Overhead, Richmond, Virginia, July 2, 2020.
Courtesy Monroe Gallery of Photography
Santa Fe’s Monroe Gallery will be showing a selection of contemporary photojournalism, with a central focus on Sanjay Suchak's Take Them Down project documenting the deinstallation and repurposing of monumental Confederate statues. The gallery, which recently began representing Mark Peterson, will also show photographs Peterson made at the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia, in 2020 as well as other works by the photographer. Other photographs on view at the Monroe Gallery’s booth will focus on climate change, women’s rights, and the 2016 Standing Rock protest to stop the Dakota Access pipeline. The gallery will also have a special selection of fashion, WWII, and portrait photographs by Tony Vaccaro, who passed away in December 2022 at the age of 100 and who was a longtime gallery artist and a frequent presence in the Monroe Gallery booth during previous AIPAD Shows.
Sanjay Suchak, Foundry workers prepare to melt down the face of the Robert E. Lee statue for repurposing, October, 2023.
Courtesy Monroe Gallery of Photography
Mark Peterson, Portrait of George Floyd projected on General Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, VA, June 8, 2020, by lighting designer Dustin Klein.
Courtesy Monroe Gallery of Photography
Ryan Vizzions, A church flooded by Hurricane Florence stands silently in its reflection in Burgaw, North Carolina, 2018.
Courtesy Monroe Gallery of Photography
Tony Vaccaro, The Guggenheim Hat, New York, 1960.
Courtesy Monroe Gallery of Photography
René Groebli, Entkleiden #516, Paris, 1952, from Auge der Liebe. ©René Groebli.
Courtesy Galerie Bildhalle
Among the works on view at Zurich’s Galerie Bildhalle’s booth will be a pair of romantic, black-and-white photographs by René Groebli from the series The Eye of Love. He took the photographs of his wife, Rita, over four days on their honeymoon in Paris: both show Rita turned away from the camera, one taking off a blouse, the other lying in bed. Edward Steichen discovered the series in the 1960s and bought one of them for the Museum of Modern Art. Also at the gallery’s booth will be a photograph by Ilona Langbroek, a deep blue-hued image of a woman gazing out of a window, holding a parasol, from her series Silent Loss, about her family’s history in the former Dutch East Indies. The melancholy of these images is countered by a photograph by Willy Spiller of a group of schoolgirls, in Catholic-school uniforms, sprawled on the seats of an A train headed to Brooklyn’s Far Rockaway. It being 1978, the girls’ hair is feathered, and the subway car is filled with graffiti.
Ilona Langbroek, Longing for Insulinde, #7, 2021. ©Ilona Langbroek.
Courtesy Galerie Bildhalle
Willy Spiller, Schoolgirls on the A Train to Far Rockaway, New York, 1978. ©Willy Spiller.
Courtesy Galerie Bildhalle
René Groebli, Liegender Akt #532, Paris, 1952, from Auge der Liebe. ©René Groebli.
Courtesy Galerie Bildhalle
Danziger Gallery is bringing, among other things, a selection of images based in California: one of Matthew Porter’s flying cars (North Beach, 2024), in which a car seems to hang suspended over a street, while a woman crosses below, seemingly unaware. Also on view, a unique, brightly colored print by Matthew Brandt (Joshua Tree, VC2H, 2023) made with dyed sand on paper with varnish showing one of the trees for which the park was named. In a 1982 black-and-white photograph by Bill Dane, a nude dancer poses on a Hollywood bar, a few patrons – including Garry Winogrand – just visible beyond (Ivar Theater, Hollywood, 1982). Also on view at the gallery’s booth, one of Susan Derges’s luminous, vertical photograms of the River Taw Hawthorn (2020) from a series she’s been working on for 20 years in which she captures the movement of water by submerging photographic paper into the river and exposing the paper using moonlight or a flashlight.
Bill Dane, Ivar Theater Hollywood, 1982.
Courtesy Danziger Gallery
Susan Derges, River Taw Hawthorn, 2020.
Courtesy Danziger Gallery
Matthew Brandt, Joshua Tree VC2H, 2023.
Courtesy Danziger Gallery
TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE FOR OUR VIP PREVIEW
Tickets are available for the evening of Thursday, April 25th from 5 - 8 pm during our VIP Opening Preview. Get an early start on collecting photography before the fair opens to the public the following day.
AIPAD TALKS LIVE AT THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW
A slate of exciting talks and programs throughout the fair includes the following:
On Friday, March 26, at 1 pm, AIPAD Award winner Vince Aletti will be on a panel along with Jeff Rosenheim, photography curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a previous winner of the AIPAD Award.
At 2:30 pm, a panel discussion focusing on Deborah Turbeville’s Polaroids will be led by Richard Grosbard, the MUUS Collection’s Consulting Director of the Deborah Turbeville Archive, and include curators Nathalie Herschdorfer, Joel Smith, and William Ewing.
Night of Photography at 4:30 pm, presented with ICP, will feature a panel on collecting photography, with a conversation moderated by photograph’s editor Jean Dykstra and featuring Cathy Kaplan, curator and partner at SIDLEY Austin, collector David Mahoney, and art advisor Todd Levin.
On Saturday, April 27, 1 pm, curators Gregory Harris and Sarah Kennel and artists Carolyn Drake and RaMell Ross will discuss the exhibition A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845, which opened at the High Museum in September of 2023 and travels to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts this coming October.
At 2:30 pm, Whitney Museum photography curator Drew Sawyer will be in discussion with photographer Vera Lutter and Heji Shin to discuss their work in the exhibition In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection, on view through July 7 at the Brooklyn Museum.
At 4:30 pm, Ivan Shaw, Conde Nast’s Corporate Photography Director and Acting Visuals Editor at The World of Interiors, will be in conversation with photographer Ngoc Minh Ngo. Ngo's landscapes, interiors and still lifes have graced the pages of World of Interiors, AD, Vogue and numerous other publications. Ngo has also published five books, with a new book due out later this year from Rizzoli.
On Sunday, April 28, at noon, photographer Dawoud Bey will be speaking with curator Valerie Cassel Oliver about the exhibition Dawoud Bey: Elegy, organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Dawoud Bey: Elegy showcases three photographic series, each mesmerizing and evocative. This exhibition contemplates the harrowing journeys and human realities of the Virginia slave trail, Louisiana plantations, and Ohio's Underground Railroad.
Limited seating for walk-ins will be available for AIPAD Talks Live Programming at the fair.