Black and white meets new technology at photo show
Traditional black and white is sharing the spotlight with colour and
new digital formats at a major international photography show that runs
through Sunday in New York.
"There are two different audiences, but they are certainly coming
together more than they have in previous years," said Stephen Bulger, a
Toronto gallery owner and president of the Association of International
Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), which organized the show.
"For the most part, people who were collecting black and whites in
the 1970s and 80s were not interested in colour at all. Then they were
worried about the longevity of it. But now the camps are coming
together." The show, which opened Thursday, features works from more
than 70 major photography galleries, including a wide range of
museum-quality work, modern and 19th century photographs, photo-based
art, video and new media.
The New York show is the longest running and among the most important
exhibitions of fine art photography.
The works range from those of digital media artist Shirley Shor,
whose alternating images of a man's and a woman's face is listed for
sale at 20,000 dollars, to the 1856 black and white still life of early
French photographer Adolphe Braun.
"It is only a bouquet of flowers, but the range of tones between
black and white is impressive for the period, and this photo remains
intact after 150 years," said Paris gallery owner Jonas Tebib, who lists
the print at 6,000 dollars.
The highest price tag of the show goes to a unique 1921 print by US
photographer Edward Weston, who died in 1958. This is the first time
Weston's photograph of a naked woman's bust is shown in public, and the
owner is asking for 650,000 dollars.
Andy Warhol's black and white photographs from 1976 to 1979 are
displayed by Steven Kasher Gallery, which is also showing the first ever
prints of autochrome prints, from the National Geographic collection
dated 1907-1925. AFP |
