Join renowned artist Mona Kuhn in conversation from her studio with AIPAD's Executive Director, Lydia Melamed Johnson.

Artist Dawoud Bey and Valerie Cassel Oliver, (the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts), discuss Dawoud Bey: Elegy

Ivan Shaw (Condé Nast Corporate Photography Director and Acting Visuals Editor at The World of Interiors), in conversation with noted photographer Ngoc Minh Ngo.

In the Now unites nearly fifty women artists who are resisting traditional ideas of gender and nationality, as well as of photography itself.

A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845 examines how The South has occupied an uneasy place in the history of photography as both an example of regional exceptionalism and as the crucible from which American identity has been forged.

AIPAD's Night of Photography, presented with ICP, opened with a conversation between Cathy Kaplan, (curator and Partner at SIDLEY Austin), David Mahoney, (collector and trustee at SFMOMA), and art advisor Todd Levin (at Levin Art Group), on collecting photography.

Join us for this compelling panel discussion as we dive into Deborah Turbeville's evocative Polaroids.

Join 2024 AIPAD Award winner, critic, writer, and curator Vince Aletti in conversation with Jeff Rosenheim.

Surrealist photography collector David Raymond and curator Dr. William Jeffett discuss the upcoming exhibition The Subversive Eye: Surrealism and Experimental Photography from the David Raymond Collection, showing at the Dalí Museum on Nov. 16, 2024–Apr. 27, 2025.

Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography, is a radical new history of photography from a team of esteemed writers and thinkers that focuses on the complex collaborations between photographer and subject. This AIPAD Talk features Susan Meiselas and Laura Wexler.

On March 7, art and culture journalist Carol Kino spoke with Jean Dykstra, editor of photograph magazine, and Nicole Straus, the founder of Nicole Straus Public Relations – who invited Kino to the exhibition at Howard Greenberg Gallery that inspired her book – Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Photography (Scribner). The McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers, celebrated in the 1940s, and their circle included Irving Penn, Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, Toni Frissell, Alex Liberman, Man Ray, and many more. Kino’s new book, which was supported by a fellowship at the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, provides a window onto the golden era of magazine photography and the lives of Frances McLaughlin-Gill and Kathryn Abbe.

Join curator James Oles in a virtual tour of the exhibition Mexichrome: Fotografía y color en México, which he organized for the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. This AIPAD event consists of a tour of the exhibition in which Oles discusses the research and selection processes, installation design, and other behind-the-scenes information.

With 175 photographs by some 90 artists, the show is the first major exhibition to explore the history of color photography in Mexico. Mexichrome includes work by photographers ranging from Manuel Álvarez Bravo to Nan Goldin. The exhibition is on view from November 29, 2023, to March 3, 2024.

Join Paul Martineau, Curator of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, as he delves into the captivating journey of Rodney Smith, a distinguished New York-based fashion photographer. Martineau unveils the intriguing narrative behind the creation of the latest publication, Rodney Smith: A Leap of Faith (2023), shedding light on both the remarkable life and illustrious career of this iconic artist. Talk hosted by Andra Russek from Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd.

Speakers: Mattie Boom, Curator of Photography, Rijksmuseum, Hans Rooseboom, Curator of Photography, Rijksmuseum, Moderator: Jean Dykstra, Editor, Photograph Magazine
The photography curators and 2023 AIPAD Award winners discuss their recent projects and upcoming exhibitions at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Speakers: Thea Quiray Tagle, Associate Curator, Brown Arts Institute and David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Sean Corcoran, Senior Curator of Photographs and Prints, Museum of the City of New York, Kristen Lubben, Executive Director, Magnum Foundation.
On the occasion of the inaugural photography triennial exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, co-curators Thea Quiray Tagle and Sean Corcoran discuss the exhaustive curatorial selection process for the exhibition, and its final 33 participating artists and collectives.

Speakers: Michael W. Sonnenfeldt, Founder of MUUS Collection, Richard Grosbard, Advisor to MUUS Collection, Charles H. Traub, Photographer and Educator
An in-depth discussion about the building of MUUS Collection and its aim to uplift the legacies of underappreciated artists.

Speakers: Adger Cowans, Photographer, Halima Taha, Curator and Author, Introduction by Arnika Dawkins, Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Chair of AIPAD Education Committee
A conversation with Adger Cowans and Halima Taha, and author of Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas.

Speakers: John A. Bennette, Collector, Editor, Curator, W.M. Hunt, Collector, Curator, Consultant
John A. Bennette and W.M. Hunt first spoke at AIPAD in 1996. They will come together again and talk some more about photography and what’s been going on for the past 27 years. They are both fierce advocates for talent, and they love talking about pictures and spreading the gospel of collecting.

Hip Hop: Conscious, Unconscious
Sam Balaban, Multimedia Artist, Photographer, and Director, Janette Beckman, Photographer, T. Eric Monroe, Photographer and Author, Sally Berman, Co-Curator of Hip Hop: Conscious, Unconscious, Nick Fahey, Director, Fahey / Klein Gallery, Meredith Breech, Exhibitions Manager, Fotografiska
Hip Hop: Conscious, Unconscious, which is on view at Fotografiska through May 20, amplifies the individual creatives involved in the movement and surveys the women who trailblazed amid hip hop’s male-dominated environment.

Click through for the full schedule of AIPAD Talks during the 42nd edition of The Photography Show. Talks occurring daily onsite at Center415 at 1pm and 3pm from March 31 - April 2. Registration is needed for each presentation.

Join AIPAD Award 2022 Winner Jeff Rosenheim, the Joyce F. Menschel Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, who will discuss his forthcoming exhibition, Bernd and Hilla Becher and their 19th and Early 20th-century Precursors, opening July 2022.

Dr. Patrick Lenaghan : Photographic highlights of the collection at the Hispanic Society of America

Stamatina Gregory:  Highlights of the Photography collection at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

Speakers:

Lois Conner, artist
Miko McGinty, designer
Sarah Meister, executive director, Aperture
Sarah Stolfa, CEO and artistic director, TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image 

Street photographer. Fashion photographer. Painter. Graphic designer. Abstract artist. Writer. Filmmaker. Book maker. Few have transformed as many fields of art and culture as William Klein. David Campany, Curator at Large at the International Center of Photography presents the expansive work of William Klein, ahead of his major retrospective exhibition William Klein: YES! Photographs, Paintings, Films, 1948-2013, opening Summer 2022 at the International Center of Photography located on the Lower East Side in New York.

Based in Beirut, Myriam Boulos, (left) now a Magnum-nominee, has created a searing, diaristic body of work portraying her friends, family, and her city’s society with startling energy and intimacy. Her series, “What’s Ours,” featured in Aperture magazine’s spring issue titled “Celebrations” casts an unflinching eye on the revolution that began in Lebanon in 2019, with protests against corruption and government austerity, as well as the aftermath of the devastating port explosion in August 2020. Of her approach to photography, Boulos states: “It’s more of a need than a choice. I obsess about things and I don’t know how to deal with these obsessions in any other way but photography.” The talk will be introduced by Michael Famighetti, editor, Aperture 

Join co-founders of 10x10 Photobooks Olga Yatskevich (left), a contributing writer to Collector Daily, and Russet Lederman (right), writer, editor, and photobook collector. They will be discussing What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843-1991, winner of the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photography Catalogue of the Year Award for 2021.

Willis (left), University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, will discuss The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship (NYU Press, 2021), which offers a kaleidoscopic yet intimate portrait of the African-American experience from the beginning of the Civil War to 1900. Best (right), the Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, will discuss her book Elevate the Masses – Alexander Gardner, Photography and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America (Penn State University Press, 2020).

Join Philip Gefter, author of What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon. In this talk, Gefter makes a case for Avedon as one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, discussing his mentors, his influences, how he revolutionized fashion photography and, simultaneously, how he advanced the genre of portraiture in photography with work that becomes ever more enduring with time.

Philip Gefter is the author of two biographies: What Becomes a Legend Most: The Biography of Richard Avedon (Harper) and Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe (Liveright), which received the 2014 Marfield Prize for national arts writing; and a collection of essays, Photography After Frank (Aperture). He was the Page One Picture Editor at The New York Times and wrote regularly about photography for the paper. He was the photography critic for the Daily Beast in its early years and has contributed frequently to The New Yorker: Photobooth and Aperture, the quarterly of photography. He produced the award-winning documentary, Bill Cunningham New York. He resides in New York City.

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