Whitehot Magazine
"The Best Art In The World"
By PAUL LASTER, Mar. 2017
The 37th edition of The Photography Show kicks off this week with more than 115 galleries from around the world offering contemporary, modern and 19th-century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video and new media. Presented at Pier 94 by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), from Thursday, March 30 through Sunday, April 2, the Show is the longest running and most respected exposition dedicated to the photographic medium.
The 2017 Show also features more than a dozen AIPAD Talks presenting prominent curators, collectors, artists and journalists—including Tate Modern Curator Simon Baker, art and photography collector Martin Margulies, artists Lee Friedlander and Awol Erizku, and Art in America Editor-in-Chief Lindsay Pollock— as well as special exhibitions of works from the collections of Margulies, Madeleine Plonsker and Artur Walther and some 30 photography book publishers and sellers.
New projects for 2017, which is the first year the fair has been presented in the expansive space of Pier 94, include Lucien Samaha making portraits of fairgoers with the world’s first digital camera (a 1991 prototype from Kodak labs); the AIPAD Screening Room, with films by and about James Agee, Mary Ellen Mark, Gordon Parks, Weegee and others; and a video by Colleen Plumb about keeping wild animals in captivity that is being projected on the façade of Pier 94 during the run of the Show.
Scroll through the images below to get a sneak peek of our picks of the remarkable works you’ll find at the fair. WM
Paul Laster is a writer, editor, curator, artist and lecturer. He’s a contributing editor at ArtAsiaPacific and Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art and writer for Time Out New York, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Galerie Magazine, Sculpture, Art & Object, Cultured, Architectural Digest, Garage, Surface, Ocula, Observer, ArtPulse, Conceptual Fine Arts and Glasstire. He was the founding editor of Artkrush, started The Daily Beast’s art section, and was art editor of Russell Simmons’ OneWorld Magazine, as well as a curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, now MoMA PS1.
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