The AIPAD Photography Show returns to New York's Park Avenue Armory

The AIPAD Photography Show returns to New York's Park Avenue Armory Posted: 28 Mar 2012 02:09 AM PDT New York City.- The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) will hold the 32nd edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York, one of the world’s most important annual photography events, March 29th through April 1st, at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street in New York City. Seventy-five 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 AIPAD Photography Show New York is the longest running and foremost exhibition of fine art photography. The Show will commence with an opening night gala on March 28th, to benefit inMotion, which provides free legal services to low-income women. AIPAD 2012 will present four new member exhibitors: David Zwirner, New York; Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York; Paul Cava Fine Art Photographs, Bala Cynwyd, PA; and 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing. A wide range of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will exhibit at The AIPAD Photography Show New York. In addition to galleries from New York City and across the country, a number of international galleries will be featured from France, Germany, Great Britain, Argentina, Japan, and China. Among the highlights at The AIPAD Photography Show New York will be a solo exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, of new work by Philip-Lorca diCorcia, and a specially curated exhibition of early French photography at James Hyman Photography, London. A number of extraordinary portraits will be on view. Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, will show Linda McCartney’s photographs of Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix. Bert Stern’s prints of Marilyn Monroe from her last sitting in 1962, which she famously crossed off, will be on view at Staley-Wise Gallery, New York. Hans P. Kraus Jr. Inc., New York, will exhibit portraits by the 19th century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. Flip Schulke’s mural-sized silver gelatin print of Muhammad Ali jumping out of a hotel pool in Miami Beach from1961 will be exhibited at Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York. Portraits of pioneer photographers will be shown at Charles Schwartz Ltd., New York. Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, will exhibit new portraits of Occupy Wall Street protestors by Accra Schepp, along with work by Weegee and the posthumously discovered Vivian Maier. Tam Tran is known for self-portraits with provocative titles such as My Call to Arms, Retro Bitch, I Forgot Pants, Strip Tease, and When Are We Leaving? Her image entitled Youniverse, 2010, will be shown by Gary Edwards Gallery, Washington, DC. At the forefront of digital technologies for the past decade, Kelli Connell addresses complex issues of identity and visual rhetoric. Her work will be exhibited at Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago. Unique portraits of dolls by Fausta Facciponte will be on view at Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto. A collection of personal holiday cards by Lee Friedlander, Jerry Uelsmann, and John Szarkowski, among others, will be on view at Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd., Santa Fe. Karen Knorr’s series India Song, 2008-2010, depicts tigers and other wild animals lounging in exotic palaces, mansions, and mausoleums. Prints from India Song will be on view at Danziger Gallery, New York, along with work by Andy Warhol, Evelyn Hofer, and Hendrik Kerstens. Robert Burge/20th Century Photos, Ltd, New York, will show John Woolf’s new color panoramas of classical theater interiors. Work from Laura Letinsky’s new series Ill Form and Void Full, will be the highlight at Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York. Compelling landscape photography will be on view at AIPAD. Mariana Cook spent eight years traveling to Peru, Great Britain, Ireland, the Mediterranean, New England, and Kentucky in pursuit of photographing dry stone walls. Her acclaimed book Stone Walls: Personal Boundaries was published last fall, and Lee Marks Fine Art, Shelbyville, IN, will exhibit a number Cook’s gelatin silver prints. Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, will show striking seascapes from Alejandro Chaskielberg’s series The High Tide, 2010. The first picture ever made of the earth from lunar orbit in 1966 will be on view at Charles Isaacs Photographs, New York. Galerie f5,6, Munich, will exhibit cityscapes by Max Regenberg from his series Come to Where, which documents advertising for Marlboro in the U.S. and Canada in the 1970s. 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing, will show work by artists Song Chao, Wang Shilong, Xiao Zhuang, and Yang Yankang. Julie Saul Gallery, New York, will show the panorama Flatiron Building, Manhattan, 2011, by Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao. Sherril Schell’s Skylights, Penn Station, a silver print from 1929, will be on view at Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco, CA. A study of trees, c. 1910-1920, by Maxfield Parrish will be on view at Paul Cava Fine Art Photographs, Bala Cynwyd, PA. Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, will offer the diaristic photography of Elinor Carucci. Gitterman Gallery, New York, will show the landscapes of Adam Bartos, whose interest in 19th century travel photography has taken him to Egypt, Kenya, and Mexico with a large-format camera. Robert Mann Gallery, New York, will exhibit landscapes and interiors ranging from 1940s work by Ansel Adams and Fred Stein to new work from Julie Blackmon and Jeff Brouws. Bill Eppridge's touching portrait Mrs. Chaney and young Ben, James Chaney Funeral, Mississippi, 1964 will be on view at Monroe Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe. Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Rue Mouffetard, 1948/1956, which depicts a young schoolboy triumphantly carrying two bottles of wine, will be on view at John Cleary Gallery, Houston. Paul Strand’s Central Park, New York, a platinum print from 1915-1916, will be shown at Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA. André Kertész’s silver print, Distortion #40, from 1933/1940s will be exhibited by Contemporary Works/Vintage Works, Chalfont, PA. Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, will show Robert Heinecken’s Recto/Verso #2, 1988. Hyperion Press Ltd., New York, will show several celebrated photographs by Man Ray. Etherton Gallery, Tucson, is bringing an exquisite print of Ansel Adams’s Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, c. 1926. As Adams said, "This photograph represents my first conscious visualization; in my mind's eye I saw (with reasonable completeness) the final image as made with the red filter… The red filter did what I expected it to do." In addition to the gallery's exhibiting at the fair, a series of five panel discussions featuring leading curators, artists, dealers, and collectors will be held on Saturday at a spacious auditorium at Hunter College in the Hunter West Building. Founded in 1979, The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) represents more than 120 of the world’s leading galleries in fine art photography. The organization is dedicated to creating and maintaining the highest standards of scholarship and ethical practice in the business of exhibiting, buying, and selling fine art photography. Visit the fair's website at ... http://www.aipad.com