Denis Darzacq, “Hyper no. 10,” chromogenic print, 2008 (courtesy Laurence Miller Gallery)
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Ave. at 67th St.
March 17-20, $25 per day, $40 run of show
www.aipad.com
The thirty-first annual Association of International Photography Art Dealers Photography Show New York will feature more than eighty galleries from around the world in the Park Avenue Armory, running March 17-20. (A gala benefit preview is being held in conjunction with MoMA on March 16, with tickets ranging from $100 to $5,000.) Comprising early, contemporary, and modern photography, the event will highlight work by such artists as Mark Seliger at Steven Kasher, Abelardo Morell at Bonni Benrubi, Naomi Leshem at Andrea Meislin, Alec Soth at Weinstein, John Baldessari at Barry Singer, Alex Prager at Yancey Richardson, Denis Darzacq at Laurence Miller, Arkady Shaikhet at Nailya Alexander, and Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, Eugene Atget, and Thomas Eakins at Alan Klotz. Among the other participating galleries are New Orleans’s a Gallery for Fine Photography, La Jolla’s Joseph Bellows, Toronto’s Stephen Bulger, Munich’s Galerie f5,6, London’s Eric Franck Fine Art, Beijing’s Jade Jar Fine Art, Cologne’s Galerie Priska Pasquer, and such New York favorites as Howard Greenberg, Edwynn Houk, Robert Mann, Yossi Milo, Julie Saul, Bruce Silverstein, and Bryce Wolkowitz. AIPAD will also host a series of panel discussions ($10 each) with a bevy of prestigious guests on Saturday, including “Photography Now: How Artists Are Thinking Today,” with Larry Fink, Shirin Neshat, and Alec Soth, moderated by Julie Saul (10:00 am), “Pictures into Pages: Photography Book Publishing Now,” with Abrams’s Eric Himmel, Aperture’s Lesley Martin, Rizzoli’s Anthony Petrilose, and Steidl’s Gerhard Steidl, moderated by Steven Kasher (12 noon), “New Curators / New Directions,” with the Tate’s Simon Baker, MoMA’s Roxana Marcoci, LACMA’s Britt Salvesen, ICP’s Brian Wallis, and the Art Institute of Chicago’s Matthew S. Witkovsky, moderated by Rick Wester (2:00), “The Voice of Experience: Behind the Scenes at AIPAD Galleries, with Howard Greenberg, Peter MacGill, Yancey Richardson, and Martin Weinstein, moderated by Jill Arnold (4:00), and “AIPAD and the iPad: New Technology and Photography,” with Jen Bekman, Bill Charles, and Scott Dadich, moderated by Barbara Pollack (6:00).