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| Going to Miami in December? Well your favorite gallery is, that’s for sure. As it has for the last five years, Art Basel Miami Beach, held this year December 6–9, continues to attract concurrent fairs, and photography grows increasingly prominent. Almost 50 galleries will take part in the first AIPAD Photography Show Miami, which will be held in the burgeoning Wynwood Art District. The decision to fly south, fueled in part by growing success since the annual New York show moved from the Hilton to the Park Avenue Armory two years ago, was apparently a no-brainer. “Our collectors kept asking why we weren’t there. Finally, it was just dumb not to do it,” says AIPAD’s president, Robert Klein. The Photography Show Miami is not be confused with Photo Miami, which will return to Wynwood for its second year. Organized by Artfairs, Inc., this show includes nearly 60 galleries and skews toward more contemporary, and slightly more international, work. Then there’s Art Miami, which will include such photography galleries as Yancey Richardson, Yossi Milo and RoseGallery, and will join the Wynwood scene, too. At this point it’s possible to spend one’s entire art-fair jaunt in that funky neighborhood, and not venture to Miami Beach at all. (But don’t do that.) The Miami pilgrimage follows hot on the heels of the 11th annual Paris Photo, November 15–18. The most anticipated international photo fair, it’s also the one with the most intense competition for booths. This year 83 galleries were chosen from 300 applicants. Italy is the “guest country,” and there will be a special focus on contemporary Italian work. Back in New York: the collection of Dr. Stanley Burns first came to our attention with his 1990 book, Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America, a runaway hit. Now, the ophthalmologist, writer, and intrepid photo collector will also deal in pictures, from his 38th Street townhouse. “I decided to do it recently, after acquiring the archive of [under-recognized photographer] Wallace Litwin, which includes 1,400 exhibition prints,” says Burns. He will deal in these, as well as his mammoth collection of medical and historical photographs. Meanwhile, longtime photo gallerist John Stevenson has closed his 23rd Street gallery and is now a private dealer with offices in New York City and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Independent curator Debra Klomp Ching, and husband, Darren Ching, creative director of PDN, have opened a contemporary photo gallery in Dumbo, Brooklyn, called, memorably, Klompching, at 111 Front Street. And in Chelsea, Lisa Newlin Galeano, who until July was New York head of photographs at Phillips de Pury & Company, has joined the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery as director of photography. “While several of the gallery’s artists also work in photographic media, we look forward to expanding the roster of artists to include photographers,” says Galeano. In museum news, Florida’s Southeast Museum of Photography is re-opening early November in a 22,000-square-foot space in the new Mori Hosseini Center on the campus of Daytona Beach Community College. And Sean Corcoran, former assistant curator at the George Eastman House, was named curator of prints and photographs at the Museum of the City of New York. MCNY’s goal is to celebrate the City’s diversity and perpetual transformation, but Corcoran has a special role to play: “My personal directive is to achieve that goal while making the public more aware of the amazing photographic collection [approximately 375,000 photographs] here.” Copyright ©2008 photograph. All rights reserved. No reproduction or republication without written permission. |
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