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Galileo Galileiwww.rebeccaz.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02154326688691056538noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582846968288822711.post-440032324402509222011-11-01T20:02:00.000-04:002011-11-01T20:03:12.353-04:00Yours Truly.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv6AELpsTMIBPJMcmAnaiGOK48RVfr6Ljq3W0KG2-mXBvxLeqk7kAKPhCWVjFyp547llbcAJGAZHKcQAzFZhYFa_SJoTvhD__FlRdXqeT2nvi3In436TJgeduCLmtHb3FM0ZHSX0uozmhk/s1600/301560_10150335981490812_705715811_8796169_674332540_n.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv6AELpsTMIBPJMcmAnaiGOK48RVfr6Ljq3W0KG2-mXBvxLeqk7kAKPhCWVjFyp547llbcAJGAZHKcQAzFZhYFa_SJoTvhD__FlRdXqeT2nvi3In436TJgeduCLmtHb3FM0ZHSX0uozmhk/s320/301560_10150335981490812_705715811_8796169_674332540_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670182139189143010" /></a>www.rebeccaz.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02154326688691056538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582846968288822711.post-59427184423752156182011-11-01T20:00:00.003-04:002011-11-01T20:01:29.530-04:00Swim by www.rebeccaz.com<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZG7r-155pxUNfUrD4QTLmnjPSKTtnAYNB4Q9kyQjsz1dTouWuo1-pl_eiz8UfMaqkfmfdOzfCTXAlX4CwZr8_ZQa0Cbjmp873gjlz0w4Z1NmbNLwgAZZ0FrllAy-wNBPeN-ZlAA0YfLoh/s1600/315692_282581825101516_200287669997599_1222840_6407600_n.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZG7r-155pxUNfUrD4QTLmnjPSKTtnAYNB4Q9kyQjsz1dTouWuo1-pl_eiz8UfMaqkfmfdOzfCTXAlX4CwZr8_ZQa0Cbjmp873gjlz0w4Z1NmbNLwgAZZ0FrllAy-wNBPeN-ZlAA0YfLoh/s320/315692_282581825101516_200287669997599_1222840_6407600_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670181678456372914" /></a>www.rebeccaz.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02154326688691056538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582846968288822711.post-50216062841213911882011-10-31T18:00:00.000-04:002011-10-31T18:02:22.755-04:00Still Life with Smoke and MIrrors by Graham Young<object width="832" height="580"><param name="movie" value="http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="FlashVars" value="config_settings_skin=black&config=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk%2Ffilmnetwork%2Femp%2Fconfig%2Exml&playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk%2Fiplayer%2Fplaylist%2Fp00ghy0t&config_settings_showFooter=true&"></param><embed src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="832" height="580" FlashVars="config_settings_skin=black&config=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk%2Ffilmnetwork%2Femp%2Fconfig%2Exml&playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk%2Fiplayer%2Fplaylist%2Fp00ghy0t&config_settings_showFooter=true&"></embed></object>www.rebeccaz.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02154326688691056538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582846968288822711.post-5138021639546826762011-09-17T08:10:00.003-04:002011-09-17T08:15:30.606-04:00Rebecca Zilenziger | Art Takes Miami 2011<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUwr6tv9__vNqeYsEMimFxfOBW42yOZ7HNz4dbWXgD5DWFlZMMHOtYLI0_1MyqsKHXNB-RO0b2kM3B49PKhvvhLoHWcFiozyQw0iojmCdoBEiUrY-yfpHfGbxjd6yXN8LdnjNwbl6yMmVs/s1600/VicDanceSeries2010_2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUwr6tv9__vNqeYsEMimFxfOBW42yOZ7HNz4dbWXgD5DWFlZMMHOtYLI0_1MyqsKHXNB-RO0b2kM3B49PKhvvhLoHWcFiozyQw0iojmCdoBEiUrY-yfpHfGbxjd6yXN8LdnjNwbl6yMmVs/s320/VicDanceSeries2010_2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653300527138933826" /></a><br /><br />CLICK ON THIS LINK:<br /><br /><a href="http://rz9.see.me/atm2011#.TnSPEGZ-NT8.blogger">Rebecca Zilenziger | Art Takes Miami 2011</a>www.rebeccaz.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02154326688691056538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582846968288822711.post-6819603073964928062011-09-02T21:59:00.001-04:002011-09-02T22:00:58.302-04:00Duet by Sil van der Woerd<iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ocf11DfJ0GI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>www.rebeccaz.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02154326688691056538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582846968288822711.post-20693567216634661652011-08-28T20:35:00.002-04:002011-08-28T20:38:32.087-04:00XX. Love this group.<iframe width="560" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PElhV8z7I60" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><blockquote></blockquote>www.rebeccaz.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02154326688691056538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582846968288822711.post-77565935300661220722011-08-28T20:18:00.009-04:002011-09-03T14:21:42.041-04:00Inspired + Dismantled.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWDWzSCutRoCxyBnc07wbT9nBf2lqZt42fUxu7ppxxlQUA6E-hlsnUBFSBS4EbzCQjErox8pNg4zaqQaudOgMSpVcPU-RqeJnqMjMUFnE4RV38sMOMWFGGBsSZdTwlFq87EBOF_ZB7xp2R/s1600/Thumbnail.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 292px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWDWzSCutRoCxyBnc07wbT9nBf2lqZt42fUxu7ppxxlQUA6E-hlsnUBFSBS4EbzCQjErox8pNg4zaqQaudOgMSpVcPU-RqeJnqMjMUFnE4RV38sMOMWFGGBsSZdTwlFq87EBOF_ZB7xp2R/s320/Thumbnail.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5646091901024245698" /></a>
<br />www.rebeccaz.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02154326688691056538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582846968288822711.post-51659685039456790322011-07-27T06:08:00.005-04:002011-07-28T14:28:27.879-04:00Stieglitz and O'Keeffe: Their Love and Life in Letters<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG1hyphenhyphen10v0Bnna2iknT9R_2Mh5pUFiIaFPUpcgaUT8Of0_hux06xhZLKof8z38GdNkeAWz015mwTOKliGeCdZ-r77yfGo_I7Dx2-1blu8PnxdUGSAaMy_hBV4vyHSf8RjEjTbSSAM14saHl/s1600/tumblr_kwvl0lKeNS1qaq59ao1_500.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 231px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG1hyphenhyphen10v0Bnna2iknT9R_2Mh5pUFiIaFPUpcgaUT8Of0_hux06xhZLKof8z38GdNkeAWz015mwTOKliGeCdZ-r77yfGo_I7Dx2-1blu8PnxdUGSAaMy_hBV4vyHSf8RjEjTbSSAM14saHl/s320/tumblr_kwvl0lKeNS1qaq59ao1_500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634471813867185266" /></a><br />July 21, 2011<br /><br />From 1915 until 1946, some 25,000 pieces of paper were exchanged between two major 20th-century artists. Painter Georgia O'Keeffe and photographer Alfred Stieglitz wrote each other letters — sometimes two and three a day, some of them 40 pages long. The correspondence tracks their relationship from acquaintances to admirers to lovers to man and wife to exasperated — but still together — long-marrieds.<br /><br />The first volume of those letters has just been published. My Faraway One, edited by Sarah Greenough, features 700-plus pages of the couple's correspondence, sent between 1915 and 1933.www.rebeccaz.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02154326688691056538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582846968288822711.post-40037122185141658442010-12-31T17:07:00.007-04:002011-01-22T22:03:42.509-04:00Bertha UrdangBertha Urdang was a dear and important friend of mine for a few years before I left New York City. In 1994 I flew to Israel to visit her. I had not seen Bertha for three years, already in her late 80's, Bertha maintained the same defining spark and vitality I had come to know when first we met. Bertha's keen eye shaped the clear and sharp visual vocabulary of her gallery. There was always time to speak of art, attend concerts and have tea. After all these years, I think of her often and the tremendous art she represented. Bertha generously gave me my first two solo shows.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Artist, Joshua Neustein tells the story well:<br /><br /><br />She was a ...mixture of the 'English lady, polite, defensive and the pioneer, always ready for a spat, like a cat with a permanently arched back... When a dinner invitation wasn't as forthcoming as she felt it should be Bertha exploded and abruptly became the lonely war widow who'd sacrificed everything for her nation, her people, ideals and who nobody cared about...She thought everyone should share her awe and dedication to art and had no patience with people who didn't quite measure up. Berated those who came to her gallery with what she perceived as the wrong attitude and informed them that "she wasn't selling vegetables" and they might lower their voices and open their eyes and minds.<br /><br />Bertha Urdang was born in England at an undisclosed date at the beginning of the 20th Century. She went to school at North London Collegiate and grew up as a Fabian socialist and a Zionist, which at that time was not contradictory. She studied at the University of Manchester and the Sorbonne. She came to Israel, married, and settled in Bet Hakerem, a peripheral neighborhood of Jerusalem.<br /><br />In 1948, her husband died, leaving her a widow, the mother of three daughters, Rina, Daphna, and Miri. She plunged into, the promotion of Israeli art. Bertha's art dealings, exploits and failures reached folklore proportions. "Rina" was the name of her first gallery on Shlom Zion Hamalka Street, near the Central Post Office in Jerusalem, which she managed with a partner, and took two months a year to go to America to spread the word and sell the work. In 1966 she separated from her partner over an ideological difference: "He loved money, I loved art," is how she summed it up.<br /><br />To read more:<br />http://www.joshuaneustein.com/texts/texts_bertha.php<br /><br /><br />*www.rebeccaz.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02154326688691056538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582846968288822711.post-73074741549991724002010-12-17T21:36:00.003-04:002010-12-17T22:02:00.317-04:00Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/U6JmeEdWhpQ?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/U6JmeEdWhpQ?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>www.rebeccaz.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02154326688691056538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582846968288822711.post-84353461315493947472010-12-11T22:13:00.001-04:002010-12-11T22:13:44.629-04:00One of my Heroes<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OpIZ_S38A_0?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OpIZ_S38A_0?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/X-y5H6uyRaA?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/X-y5H6uyRaA?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>www.rebeccaz.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02154326688691056538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582846968288822711.post-76269352990953338632010-12-11T20:20:00.016-04:002011-10-31T18:07:34.360-04:00Photography has Kick<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4FRlDJVwOg72b5yCN-ec-sWQq69MelSW5Mmhrx9UcuRoLA7ytAoLA6jQIk-0T3u0jqxsBB2byF0O5uApJwL6t216zRAz-u6yUKrgDOl76gdoQXeoacQZV7Q6AU02zd93qgKXKEmWDF6qE/s1600/Photo+on+2010-09-15+at+17.50+%25233.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4FRlDJVwOg72b5yCN-ec-sWQq69MelSW5Mmhrx9UcuRoLA7ytAoLA6jQIk-0T3u0jqxsBB2byF0O5uApJwL6t216zRAz-u6yUKrgDOl76gdoQXeoacQZV7Q6AU02zd93qgKXKEmWDF6qE/s320/Photo+on+2010-09-15+at+17.50+%25233.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549586630370451922" /></a><br /><br />CHRISTIE'S GIRAULT DE PRANGEY SALE<br />SELLS WELL AND NEARLY TOPS $3 MILLION<br /><br />By Stephen Perloff, Editor of The Photograph Collector Newsletter, and Alex<br />Novak, Editor of the E-Photo Newsletter<br /><br />Christie's sale of Important Daguerreotypes by Joseph-Philibert Girault de<br />Prangey on October 7 realized $2,873,375 with a 22% buy-in rate. Four phone<br />bidders, 1779, 1794, 1810, and 1841 took most of the top lots, with a French<br />bidder in the room, 626, taking numerous lower-priced, but good quality lots.<br />The number of buy-ins was higher than at the previous Girault de Prangey<br />sales--a result of a combination of the deterioration in the quality of the<br />material on offer and the more erratic estimates in this sale. Even much of the<br />material in this sale that sold probably shouldn't have, and I wonder how many<br />of the active bidders on the phone really viewed many of these poorer quality<br />lots.<br /><br />Lots 2 and 3 both went to 1779, which was an English-speaking bidder on the<br />phone with Christie's Stuart Alexander: Girault de Prangey's self-portrait,<br />probably 1841, went for $194,500, more than three times the high estimate; and<br />the beautiful Atget-like "261. Paris. 1841. Etude de plantes" for $242,500,<br />almost double the high estimate and over the bid of New York dealer Hans P.<br />Kraus, Jr. These were the top two lots in the sale. Bidder 1779 was highly<br />active on many other lots in this sale. It makes me wonder if Qatar wasn't back<br />bidding, filling in some gaps.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWAZCa3N0HTDaD6lvuuW9j2IfMX3t0St70SpkJ9BfHSuSyKo-jmZ_z1NpXfrAf4kNmINudT3VEF2rq7H_G9KznUa415SGY-P37pgC_35HYwJgRX4AAiBKwRcvp2Q4Ah2O4g7PnJNHOyTyo/s1600/images-2.jpeg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 176px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWAZCa3N0HTDaD6lvuuW9j2IfMX3t0St70SpkJ9BfHSuSyKo-jmZ_z1NpXfrAf4kNmINudT3VEF2rq7H_G9KznUa415SGY-P37pgC_35HYwJgRX4AAiBKwRcvp2Q4Ah2O4g7PnJNHOyTyo/s320/images-2.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551846070428971842" /></a><br />Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (21 October 1804 – 7 December 1892) was a French photographer and draughtsman who was active in the Middle East. His daguerreotypes are the earliest surviving photographs of Greece, Palestine, Egypt, Syria and Turkey. Remarkably, his photographs were only discovered in the 1920s in a storeroom of his estate and then only became known eighty years later.<br /><br />A different phone bidder (1759) outlasted Boston dealer Robert Klein for lot 4,<br />"15 Rome 1842 T[emple] de la Concorde Ent[rée] Intér[ieure]", at $128,500. This<br />might have gone higher in previous Girault de Prangey sales. And yet another<br />phone bidder (1719) captured lot 7, "28 Rome 1842 Prise de la Colonne Trajane",<br />at $56,250.<br /><br />Phone bidder 1779 closed the window on lot 8, "82 Fenêtre, clocher, Cornéto,<br />[1842]", at $80,500. Bidder 626 took his most expensive lot (#9), "27 Rome 1842<br />Jardins, Villa Médici" for $68,500. Collector Bruce Lundberg won lot 11, 35<br />Environs de Rome vue prise du R[io] del dio Redicolo [1842], for $43,750.<br />Robert Klein was lucky on lot 13 and paid the same price for 61 Athènes<br />Anc[ienne] Cathédrale Côté S[ud] [1842].<br /><br />Phone bidder 1794 went to $56,250 for lot 22, "132 Constantinople, rue sous le<br />petit champ des morts [probably 1843]". A bidder in the room, 611, took lots 24<br />and 25, "75 Aphrodisias Entablement et Chap[iteau] [1843]" at $52,500; and<br />"Euromus Temple antique [probably 1843]" at $80,500.<br /><br />1794 scooped up lot 27, "150 Constantinople 1843 Fontaine pris du T[emple] du<br />Galat" for $80,500. Then 1779 was back for lots 29 and 30, the latter, "230.<br />Zouk. Syrie. 1844. Tombeau" at $134,500 (the third highest price of the sale);<br />and lot 32, "249 Liban 1844 Les Cèdres. Suite" for $50,000.<br /><br />A new phone, 1810, bought lot 41, "130 Kaire G S Gânem Dét[ail] [1842-1844]" at<br />$98,500. After picking up lots 43, 45 and 46, phone bidder 1779 bid $62,500 for<br />lot 47, "145 Rosette. 1842. Fabriques et Palmiers". And a new phone bidder<br />(1746) took lot 48, "204 Denderah 1844" at $98,500.<br /><br />1794 paid $60,000 for lot 57, "219 Jérusalem 1844 G[ran]d tombeau Vue de<br />Josaphat", and $122,500 for lot 60, "[Jérusalem--Tombeaux de Zachariah et Bnei<br />Hezir, Vallée Kidron, 1844]", which became a battle of phones in the end.<br /><br />Then 1810 went on a tear, picking up five of the next six lots, but then ran<br />into 1841 on lot 67. Phone bidder 1841 had waited until the end of the sale,<br />but then was the winning bidder on five straight lots: lot 67, "[Jerusalem, Al<br />Wad, rue dans la vieille ville, 1844]" at $98,500 over 1810's underbid; lot 68,<br />"196 Jérusalem Porta aurea [1844]" at $116,500 and also over bidder 1810; lot<br />69, "[Jérusalem, fortifications Porta Aurea, 1844]" at $60,000; lot 70,<br />"[Jérusalem, Porta Aurea, 1844]" at $104,500; and, lot 71, "220 Jérusalem 1844<br />G[ran]de Mosquée prise de la Porte S[ud] M..." at $56,250.<br /><br />And 1810 took the last two lots of the sale, lot 73 for $25,000 and lot 74, "210<br />Jérusalem Dét[ail] Porte Egl[ise] du S[aint] Sép[ulcre] [1844]" for $80,500,<br />over the bid of dealer Robert Klein.<br /><br />Despite the buy-ins (usually on problematic plates), this was a strong sale with<br />all the top lots but one (those hammering for $80,000 and up) selling above<br />their high estimates, and that one sold within the estimates. There was strong<br />and competitive bidding, despite the sale being dominated by six bidders.<br />Bidder 611 captured three lots for $143,000 total; bidder 626, Joseph Delarue, a<br />Paris dealer on a cell phone reportedly to fellow Paris dealer Serge Plantureux,<br />bought nine lots for $171,125; 1794 took five lots for $325,500; 1810 10 lots<br />for $365,250; 1841 five lots for $437,750; and 1779 11 lots for $890,125. That<br />is 43 of the 58 lots sold and $2,332,750--or 81.2% by dollar.<br /><br /><br />(Copyright ©2010 by The Photo Review. My thanks to Steve Perloff and The<br />Photograph Collector Newsletter for giving me permission to use this<br />information. The Photograph Collector, which is a wonderful newsletter that I<br />can heartily recommend, is published monthly and is available by subscription<br />for $149.95 (overseas airmail is $169.95). You can phone 1-215-891-0214 and<br />charge your subscription or send a check or money order to: The Photograph<br />Collector, 140 East Richardson Ave, Langhorne, PA 19047.)<br /><br /><br />PHILLIPS DE PURY'S BEST SALE IN SEVERAL<br />YEARS NEARLY NETS $4 MILLION AND SELLS 78%<br /><br />By Stephen Perloff<br />Editor of The Photograph Collector Newsletter<br /><br />Phillips de Pury & Company's auction on October 8 totaled $3,987,800 selling 78%<br />by value, with many of the sale's top lots surpassing their pre-sale estimates.<br />The sale total is Phillips's highest in nearly three years, and half-a-million<br />dollars above their April totals, further highlighting the market's increasing<br />momentum, although again, the buy-in rate was 38%, reflecting the selectivity of<br />bidders. Perhaps some in the room were distracted by the stunning view across<br />the Hudson from the large picture windows lining Phillips's long, narrow,<br />third-floor salesroom.<br /><br />The day started with 15 sales associates manning the phones and 32 people in the<br />room. That number eventually grew to over 50, but waxed and waned throughout<br />the two sessions, hitting a low of 22 until the crowd dwindled even further at<br />the end of the sale.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIedTkargbHJ2gz-5d8OVa9TjfOwfTYge4cGx8aNzqhN0HpOMk-0afMd6VbGmqLAHXt4T4wrn8kSVQA8VU3TMjyOrm_Kd4MGlCLUTtxTmQRMUWW0Xn8DgIA8zQvNKYq71hZMiOF1dyTVIm/s1600/images-1.jpeg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 225px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIedTkargbHJ2gz-5d8OVa9TjfOwfTYge4cGx8aNzqhN0HpOMk-0afMd6VbGmqLAHXt4T4wrn8kSVQA8VU3TMjyOrm_Kd4MGlCLUTtxTmQRMUWW0Xn8DgIA8zQvNKYq71hZMiOF1dyTVIm/s320/images-1.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551842604100736450" /></a><br />Irving Penn's Pablo Picasso<br /><br />The highest selling lot in the sale was Irving Penn's Pablo Picasso at La<br />Californie, Cannes ($80,000–$120,000), which sold for $182,500 to Peter MacGill.<br />Another work by Penn, Chef, New York, sold for $134,500 to the phone, almost<br />tripling the high estimate and marking a new world record for the photographer's<br />Small Trades series. It took fourth place.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVV5A-iHyWSjWSVqP9SCodQ5i8TJVRhFbFYsJxaEdS-Ejpo1M7C95vmS3lPeAglDIgMx734sJAgKnT2ZQxrOTj-WkxKsR4Ztbxvo8xd5LddtQa-XM4_6GXEBYPa5HpdL8f9w_y1RPIBxVu/s1600/Brigitte-Bardot.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 278px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVV5A-iHyWSjWSVqP9SCodQ5i8TJVRhFbFYsJxaEdS-Ejpo1M7C95vmS3lPeAglDIgMx734sJAgKnT2ZQxrOTj-WkxKsR4Ztbxvo8xd5LddtQa-XM4_6GXEBYPa5HpdL8f9w_y1RPIBxVu/s320/Brigitte-Bardot.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551847191513918450" /></a><br />Richard Avedon's "Brigit Bardot"<br /><br />Iconic works by master photographers were likewise successful, as exemplified by<br />Robert Frank's Trolley--New Orleans, which sold for $158,500 (third place) to<br />Peter MacGill again; Richard Avedon's Brigitte Bardot, which sold for $170,500<br />(second place) to a phone bidder who bested Kevin Moore; and Robert<br />Mapplethorpe's Calla Lily, which sold for $74,500 (ninth place) to an order<br />bidder.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh33xjLBe-XDpPJstLHFvAy8SSpCWRBjBaZYcA06HPrZxFqXNvqDigB2gGg8cJ2MEGPMF53dbk1rBofwSYyh_mzNlskQmj4iENO0HAbnhjgCj1oxAw9ctE_J1XtJuSAOyAHydeuYFOTQjzF/s1600/images.jpeg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 133px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh33xjLBe-XDpPJstLHFvAy8SSpCWRBjBaZYcA06HPrZxFqXNvqDigB2gGg8cJ2MEGPMF53dbk1rBofwSYyh_mzNlskQmj4iENO0HAbnhjgCj1oxAw9ctE_J1XtJuSAOyAHydeuYFOTQjzF/s320/images.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551838778742177202" /></a><br />John Baldessari's "Life's Balance (with Brushes)<br /><br />Contemporary photography also generated some strong results, as represented by<br />John Baldessari's Life's Balance (With Brushes), which sold for $97,300 (fifth<br />place) to Kevin Moore; Thomas Struth's Paradise 23, São Francisco de Xavier,<br />Brasil, which sold for $86,500 (seventh place); Christian Boltanski's Fête du<br />Pourim, and Hiroshi Sugimoto's, Ionian Sea, Santa Cesarea ($35,000–$45,000)<br />which both brought $68,500 (tied for tenth place).<br /><br />Ansel Adams's Portfolio Three: Yosemite Valley eked out $47,500, just under low<br />estimate. And Dorothea Lange's The General Strike, Policeman, San Francisco,<br />1934 just reached its low estimate at $43,750. They went to a phone bidder and<br />order, respectively. Edward Steichen's Foxgloves, France, 1926, also went to a<br />phone just under low estimate at $47,500. This same print had sold at<br />Christie's in October 1999 for $29,900, a compound rate of under 4% with fees.<br /><br />An internet bidder snared André Kertész's Distortion #6, Paris, 1933, at<br />$42,500. And a phone bidder went beyond the high estimate to $45,000 for Irving<br />Penn's striking Gaultier Eye Earrings, New York, 1998 (in a small edition of<br />six). Andres Serrano's Madonna of the Rock, from his Immersion series, 1987,<br />just hit its high estimate at $37,500. And lastly, Barry Frydlender's Smoking,<br />Sinai, 2004, also hit its high estimate at $52,500.<br /><br />Frydlender was among those photographers offered for the first time at Phillips<br />de Pury who performed well. Also Shinichi Maruyama's Kusho # 1, sold for<br />$18,750, and He Yunchang's Earthly Possession, sold for $13,750; all mark new<br />world auction records for the photographers.<br /><br />Vanessa Kramer, Director of New York Photographs department, averred, "We are<br />extremely pleased with the results. The competitive bidding on the higher value<br />classic and contemporary works reflects the gradually increasing confidence in<br />the market by sellers and buyers alike."<br /><br /><br />(Copyright ©2010 by The Photo Review. My thanks to Steve Perloff and The<br />Photograph Collector Newsletter for giving me permission to use this<br />information. The Photograph Collector, which is a wonderful newsletter that I<br />can heartily recommend, is published monthly and is available by subscription<br />for $149.95 (overseas airmail is $169.95). You can phone 1-215-891-0214 and<br />charge your subscription or send a check or money order to: The Photograph<br />Collector, 140 East Richardson Ave, Langhorne, PA 19047.)<br /><br /><br />SWANN'S OCT. 19TH AUCTION BREAKS<br />OVER $1.1 MILLION WITH HELP FROM<br />RARE ALBUMS AND PORTFOLIOS<br /><br />By Stephen Perloff<br />Editor of The Photograph Collector Newsletter<br /><br /><br />Another record-setting album was Roman Vishniac's portfolio The Vanished World,<br />complete with 12 silver print photographs of Jews living in Poland from 1936 to<br />1938. The album, which was printed in an edition of 50 in 1977, brought<br />$43,200.<br /><br />There was also a suite of 29 portraits of Native Americans by Alexander Gardner,<br />Chas. Bell and others from the U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories, late<br />1860s to early 1870s, $28,800 (fourth place); a copy of Volume 1 of Edward S.<br />Curtis's magnum opus, The North American Indian, 1907, complete with 78<br />sepia-toned photogravures, signed and dated by Curtis, a record $15,600 (tied<br />for ninth place); as well as a portfolio of a different kind, Emmet Gowin's<br />Concerning America and Alfred Stieglitz, and Myself, with 14 silver prints,<br />1963-64, printed 1965, one of 100, signed and inscribed and with additional ink<br />embellishment on the cover, $33,600 (third place).<br /><br />Several examples of the earliest photographs were among the highlights, such as<br />a whole-plate daguerreotype of three young sisters attributed to Albert<br />Southworth and Josiah Hawes, late 1840s--early 1850s, $12,000; and a<br />quarter-plate daguerreotype of seven placer miners in Northern California,<br />operating equipment used to separate dirt from gold, early 1850s, $15,600.<br /><br /><br />Classic 20th-century black-and-white photographic images included Brassaï's<br />Bijou au Bar de la Lune, Montmartre, oversize ferrotyped silver print, circa<br />1932, printed late 1950s to early-mid 1960s, $11,400; Henri Cartier-Bresson's<br />Behind the Gare St. Lazare, silver print, 1932, printed 1980s, $10,200; André<br />Kertész's Washington Square (Winter), silver print, 1954, printed no later than<br />1967, which brought $22,800, a record fro a modern print; Alfred Eisenstaedt's<br />Children at a Puppet Theatre II, Paris, silver print, 1963, printed 1994,<br />$12,000; and Josef Koudelka's France, silver print, 1973, printed 1981,<br />$13,200.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5qZCrFVbPGPC80UBJygPb2jGEqlEzA-FCDjrCdVXDEYa-G3h6kz3Du3dDmR0WP3tnl7zVMG4PeqgC1Csc0xbWUfP_oyUet3C84qscLqbvao947fHFfcCqI5KGlyR1x0TilF-YU7sKQWy1/s1600/images-3.jpeg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 183px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5qZCrFVbPGPC80UBJygPb2jGEqlEzA-FCDjrCdVXDEYa-G3h6kz3Du3dDmR0WP3tnl7zVMG4PeqgC1Csc0xbWUfP_oyUet3C84qscLqbvao947fHFfcCqI5KGlyR1x0TilF-YU7sKQWy1/s320/images-3.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551848824112251730" /></a><br />Herb Ritts's "Wrapped Torso"<br /><br />Among the many eye-catching nudes in the sale were three images from Ruth<br />Bernhard's The Eternal Body Portfolio, silver prints, 1951-1967, printed 1976,<br />$15,600; and Herb Ritts's Wrapped Torso, platinum print, 1989, $15,600.<br /><br />A photograph that attracted a lot of media attention was Annie Leibovitz's<br />portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, New York, Cibachrome print, 1980, taken<br />just hours before Lennon's death, which sold for $15,600.<br /><br />The sale totaled $1,180,322, a bit below the low estimate, with a 34% buy-in<br />rate by lot.www.rebeccaz.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02154326688691056538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582846968288822711.post-56396211857694731802010-11-28T16:57:00.010-04:002010-12-17T22:57:20.131-04:00Parsons Alum Opening at the Caridi Gallery in Miami. 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It is a thing of<br />planning and construction, of effort and vision. <br /><br />The gift of man-made constructs is found in our assertions<br />of all we deem necessary and essential for growth, <br />it can and does feed the seeds we sow. <br /> <br />We must first self-govern our path to know better <br />where to place our efforts. <br />Once the earth has been turned and<br />established; dreams planted, then we have an<br />obligation to guide and master our hopes of garden.<br /><br />RZwww.rebeccaz.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02154326688691056538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582846968288822711.post-47773336555977110512010-09-18T19:51:00.005-04:002010-09-30T22:40:25.181-04:00The xx / Crystalised<embed src="http://www.npr.org/v2/?i=120126971&m=120122151&t=audio" height="386" wmode="opaque" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" base="http://www.npr.org" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>www.rebeccaz.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02154326688691056538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582846968288822711.post-81935834489967708622010-09-16T20:09:00.009-04:002010-09-18T10:48:13.430-04:00The Problem of Magnificationby Robin Becker<br /><br /><br />Today after class, my student explains to me<br />how he and his roommate plan to trap<br />history between two enormous mirrors they will install<br />in space. He is particularly interested in South American countries,<br />wooden boats circumnavigating the globe.<br />Kindly, my student instructs me in the development<br />of laser technology, he persuades me with heroic accounts<br />of electromagnetic radiation, fabulous as any resurrection.<br />History, he says, is all matter,<br />and matter cannot be destroyed. A lasso of light sparks<br />from his chalky fingers as he describes the problem of magnification. <br />Today you would lose the fine hairs on Magellan's arms, <br />the grain in the wood of his mast. Soon, he assures me, technicians<br />will perfect the lens, the light will refract,<br />and the boys will see the trees of Tierra del Fuego<br />as they appeared to the Portuguese commander.<br />Tonight my student and his roommate elucidate the elegant equations.<br />Their dormitory room is a planetarium<br />of faith, earth a lonely place, miles from anywhere<br />a penciled circle on the small schematic diagram.www.rebeccaz.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02154326688691056538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582846968288822711.post-84892849441862651742010-09-11T08:28:00.006-04:002011-09-02T21:57:49.376-04:00HOME/ copy,paste+view
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