27 January 2012
Video of the Saatchi Gallery Talk: New Directions in Contemporary Photography Charlotte Cotton, Anne Hardy, Clarisse D’Arcimoles and Aaron Schuman in conversation 7.30pm, Monday 17 January 2011 One of the great paradigm shifts in contemporary art over the past 20 years has been the movement of photography into the realm of fine art. The critical [...]
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26 January 2012
Christie’s London is going to sell three very valuable photographs during their auction of post-war and contemporary art. The most valuable among those artworks according to estimates of the auction house is Bloody Life by Gilbert & George which consists of 16 panels and had been created in 1975. The owner is a european private collector who acquired [...]
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24 January 2012
Photographer Claudia Kunin is talking about her work at Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles. She launched her career in 1976 when she was first published in Rolling Stone magazine. She pursued commercial photography for the next 30 years with intermittent shows of her fine art, which is now her primary artistic pursuit. Her bodies [...]
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24 January 2012
Swann Galleries’ December 13 auction of Important Photobooks & Photographs established auction records for a number of early photographic albums and for scarce books and portfolios that seldom appear at auction. A Mongolian Expedition portfolio set a record for an album of vernacular photography.That album, a Record of Photographs Taken by Eric Sinclaire Purdon, 1936, contained [...]
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23 January 2012
The years of rising prices are over concerning photographs by Thomas Ruff. Since 2008 prices dropped despite more and more images have been sold. During the years before the price growth rate of auction results was 22 to 57 percent but the price index dropped by a third from 2008 to 2011 according to artprice.com. [...]
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23 January 2012
The 2011 Top 10 fashion photographers – from an auction revenue perspective – includes the classic trio Irving Penn, Richard Avedon and Peter Lindbergh … with Helmut Newton not far behind. With hindsight, 2004 was a pivotal year for photography with the death of Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton and, at the same time, an [...]
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22 January 2012
1. Andreas Gursky, Rhein II (1999), $4,338,500, November 8, 2011, Christie’s New York. 2. Cindy Sherman, Untitled #96 (1981), $3,890,500, May 2011, Christie’s New York. 3. Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent II Diptychon (2001), $3,346,456, February 2007, Sotheby’s London auction. A second print of 99 Cent II Diptychon sold for $2.48 million in November 2006 at [...]
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22 January 2012
The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) will hold the 32nd edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York,, March 29 – April 1, 2012, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. More than 70 photography galleries will present a wide range of artworks, including contemporary, modern, and 19th-century photographs, as well [...]
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22 January 2012
The german photographer Andreas Mueller-Pohle has produced a video (23 minutes) in 1996 featuring Japanese Nobuyoshi Araki during a shooting at a love hotel in Tokyo. The gallery photo edition berlin offers a limited edition (99 + 4 AP) of this film. Andreas Mueller-Pohle presents the exhibition flow flow with videos, photographs and sound installations until [...]
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21 January 2012
In this clip, Thomas Ruff speaks about his experience at the Düsseldorf Academy and the artists that have most inspired his work from August Sander, Walker Evans to Joel Meyerowitz. He presents his first important body of work of enlarged portraits of his friends so the viewer understands he is looking at a photograph of [...]
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