FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
= Art produced or intended primarily for beauty rather than utility ?
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Andy Warhol
Current and upcoming events
Yearly – November : Paris Photo | “the world’s premier fair for still photography”, from 19-22 November 2009, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris. Guest of honour : Arab and Iranian Photography
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Telegraph | Financial crisis : contemporary art market hit
The Independent : Art’s too expensive, says Hirst (worth £200m)
I think it’s quite good [adjustment in art market prices] because it became unreal … You start to think you are touched by God. I have always thought that art is worth what the next guy is prepared to pay.
Der Spiegel | Damien Hirsts Erkenntnis : “Preise für Kunst sind zu hoch”
Der Papst predigt Homosexualität, Bush lädt Bin Laden zum Barbecue ein und Damien Hirst freut sich über sinkende Kunstpreise: Zumindest die dritte dieser unwahrscheinlich klingenden Aussagen hat sich nun bewahrheitet. Das zumindest gab der geschäftstüchtige Künstler jetzt zu Protokoll.
“Ich dachte immer, dass Kunst nur so viel wert ist, wie jemand dafür zahlen will”, sagte Hirst jetzt.
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TimesOnline | Martin Parr polarises the world of photography, 20 April 2008
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Auctions of photographs and photo books
November, London – Sotheby’s | photographs
2008 November, Paris | La Photographie IV: The Collection of Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes
SALE 2110, New York, 10 April 2008 | FINE PHOTOBOOKS FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
2008 April, N.Y. – collection Quillan : Gustave Le Gray, Louis de Clercq, Roger Fenton, Julia Margaret Cameron. Also Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Hans Bellmer, William Henry Fox Talbot, Imogen Cunningham, Richard Avedon and Diane Arbus
2007 October, N.Y. : Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham and
2007 October, N.Y. – collection Richardson : Herbert Bayer, Pierre Dubreuil, Aaron Siskind and
2007 April, N.Y. – collection Weston : Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Charleton Watkins and
2007 April, N.Y. online catalogue : Edward Weston, Irving Penn, Diane Arbus and
2007 March, Amsterdam : Jan Saudek
2006 October, N.Y. : Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Dora Maar, Robert Frank, Robert Mapplethorpe and
2006 October, N.Y. – collection Schieszler : Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Tina Modotti, Man Ray, Imogen Cunningham, Harry Callahan, Pierre Dubreuil and
2005 browse the 20th century photographs The Elfering Collection
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Art collections
“All artists represented in the Art Collection Deutsche Börse draw their motifs from the modern world: they show urbane life, people, nature, architecture. Their photographs are international and multicultural, inspiring and critical, bright and provocative”.
Fotomuseum (provincie antwerpen)
“Het FotoMuseum bezit een uitgebreide en bijzonder veelzijdige collectie die nagenoeg het hele domein van de fotografie bestrijkt, vanaf het meest prille begin tot en met vandaag. Deze verzameling documenteert ondermeer de technische condities waaronder fotografische beelden tot stand komen: de ontwikkeling van opname- en afdrukapparatuur, labo- en studio-uitrusting, belichtingstechnologie, lichtmeting, projectietechnieken, …”.
Twenty years of collecting photographs at the Getty
The Getty : Photo Study Collection Database
“The photography collection includes more than 400,000 photographs and negatives dating from the invention of photography to the present day. The collection embraces numerous landmark processes, objects of great rarity, and monuments of art history that trace the evolution of the medium as a technology, as a means of scientific and historical documentation, and as one of the most potent and accessible means of personal expression of the modern era”.
“Hasselblad Center har en växande fotografisk samling med verk av Hasselbladspristagare, som Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Wlliam Eggleston, Robert Frank, Sune Jonsson, Josef Koudelka, Lennart Nilsson, Christer Strömholm, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto och Boris Mikhailov”.
“Among the Museum’s treasures from the early years of the medium are an extremely rare album of photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot made just months after he presented his invention to the public; a large collection of portrait daguerreotypes by the Boston firm of Southworth and Hawes; landscape photographs of the American West by Timothy O’Sullivan and Carleton Watkins; and fine examples of French photography from the 1850s by Édouard Baldus, Eugéne Cuvelier, Gustave Le Gray, Henri Le Secq, Nadar, and others”.
MFAH | Manfred Heiting collection
The acquisition of the world-renowned Manfred Heiting Collection brings the MFAH photography holdings to an impressive total of nearly 20,000 prints. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, acquired The Manfred Heiting Collection, one of the finest photography collections in the world, in 2002. This encyclopedic collection provides an unparalleled visual record of the people, places, and events that defined the Western world, beginning with the invention of photography in 1839. (isbn 90-400-9556-6)
99 cent II Diptychon (1999) – Andreas Gursky + Moma 2001
National Portrait Gallery | Bern Schwartz : Portraits of the 1970s, press release 10 July 2008
A new display at the National Portrait Gallery will show a selection of one of the biggest-ever gifts to the Gallery, 140 of the most iconic photographs of famous 20th century British subjects. The photographs are by Bern Schwartz (1914-1978), a Californian who turned to photography in his early sixties after a successful career in business. Taken between 1975 and 1978 they include portraits of Margaret Thatcher, Rudolf Nureyev, John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Lord Denning, the Prince of Wales, A J Ayer, Tony Benn, Zandra Rhodes and Twiggy. In addition to dye transfer photographs, the gift includes archival items comprising negatives, slides and proof prints. The Bernard Lee Schwartz Foundation has also funded the cataloguing and digitisation of the collection, and established a series of ‘Masters of Photography’ lectures to occur biannually over a six-year period.
Nelson-atkins museum of art | The Hallmark Photographic Collection
Ordóñez-Falcón collection
Enrique Ordonez, collectionneur espagnol, acquit sa première photographie au milieu des années 1980. Depuis, sa collection n’ a jamais cessé de se développer avec comme thème la photographie dans toute son exhaustivité, de le Gray à Gursky, en passant par les surréalistes ou les avant-gardes. Dès ses premiers achats, Enrique Ordonez a imaginé que sa collection serait un jour à l’origine d’un musée. En moins de 20 ans, il a accumulé plus de 800 photographies, offant aujourd’hui un parcours jalonné de chefs-d’oeuvre et de découvertes. Construit en trois parties – le regard frontal, le regard fragmenté, le portrait d’un regard – , le livre se décline comme une histoire visuelle (et subjective) de la photographie, où sans cesse s’entremêlent ou s’entrechoquent 150 années de production photographique. Le regard libre du collectionneur permet des juxtapositions osées qui révèlent la pertinence du point de vue. On découvre alors la force et la constance de la frontalité au détour d’une photographie de Talbot (vers 1840), de Carthier-Bresson (vers 1930) ou des Becher (vers 1980).
Regard captif, la collection Ordonez / Falcon, Sam Stourdzé, Editions Léo Scheer
A Short History of Photograph Collecting
Passion and Practicalities In Collecting Photographs
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Passed events :
Photo Los Angeles : 9 – 11 January
Art LA – Santa Monica : 23 – 25 January
Paris Photo | “the world’s premier fair for still photography”, from 13th to 16th November 2008, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris. Japan guest of honour.
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum : 7 July – 14 September
Ordóñez-Falcón Collection. Pioneers of Photography (1845-1930)
One of the most important collections of photography in the world in private hands, the Ordóñez-Falcón collection comprises more than 1.500 works from different times, with a broad range of tendencies and techniques, by the leading authors in the history of photography.
ArtHamptons, International art fair, from 11 – 13 July 2008, N.Y.
Photo London : 15 – 18 May. With a focus exclusively on contemporary photography since 1970
Aipad photography show New York : 10 – 13 April 2008. Presentation of galleries
ExpoArte : 21 – 23 September 2007
Fine Art Zurich : 22 – 30 September 2007
2007 November 15 – 18 : Paris Photo – international fair and exhibition. Guests of honor Italian photographers of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s whose thematic focus is the landscape.Also on view the short-listed works for the BMW – Paris Photo Prize.
Photography at ARCO : 13 – 18 February, Madrid. Avant-garde, grand masters and rising young talents provide a panoramic view of photography today at ARCO8, the International Contemporary Art Fair.
A panel of international experts will pick the winner of this 12,000-euro prize from among living artists represented by Paris Photo 2007 participating galleries. The theme for 2007 is “Water, Origin of Life”.
2007 June 10 – November 21 : La Biennale di Venezia
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Inspirational artists and works of art plus passionate presentations: bbc tv | the power of art – now, since June 2008, showing on canvas tv.
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Photography-now : international online platform for Photography and Video Art
Artnet : Fine Art Galleries – Photography
“Online Gallery Network is the largest of its kind, with over 1,800 galleries in 250 international cities, more than 100,000 works by over 25,000 artists from around the globe. The Network serves dealers and art buyers alike by providing a survey of the market and its pricing trends, as well as the means to communicate instantly, inexpensively and globally”.
