Join us in 2024 at the Park Avenue Armory!

The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) cordially invites you to attend The Photography Show, April 25-28, 2023 with a VIP PREVIEW on Thursday, April 25th, which will return to the iconic Park Avenue Armory located at 643 Park Avenue in New York City.

The world’s leading galleries of fine art photography will present contemporary, modern, and rare vintage work alongside museum-quality 19th-century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video, and new media, at the premier fine art photography fair.

Show Hours for The Photography Show 2024:
VIP Preview: Thursday, April 25, 12 - 8pm
Friday, April 26, 12 - 8pm (11am VIP Hour)
Saturday, April 27, 12 - 7pm (11am VIP Hour)
Sunday, April 28, 11am - 5pm

 

OFFICIAL HOSPITALITY PARTNER OF THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW 2024:

The Mark Hotel
Reservation booking link: Link here
Reservation Code: AIPAD
Telephone Contact: (212) 606-3080
Email Contact: VIPAIPAD@themarkhotel.com
For discounted rate, please book by: April 30, 2024
Address: 25 East 77th Street, New York, NY 10075
Subway Lines: 6 (green line)
Subway Stops: 77th (for the Mark Hotel), 68th (for the Armory)

 

 

 

Exclusive VIP Off-site Events and Tours - see information below to RSVP:

 

TUESDAY, April 23

7pm: Book Launch at Fotografiska: Unveiling The Hidden - Siân Davey and Andi Galdi Vinko in conversation with Jolie Ruben

Siân Davey and Andi Galdi Vinko will present their latest individual book projects - Siân Davey’s The Garden and Andi Galdi Vinko’s Sorry I Gave Birth I Disappeared But Now I’m Back.

The Garden is Sian’s third book following Looking for Alice (2015) and Martha (2018). With her son Luke she set to work transforming the bare patch of land behind their home, filling it with wild flowers and inviting people in to have their portrait taken. "As the garden evolved it became an expression of joy, interconnectedness, yearning, sexuality and defiance. The garden became a metaphor for the human heart itself…Those who enter are the garden. Without distinction without separation." 

In her first book Sorry I Gave Birth I Disappeared But Now I’m Back, Andi Galdi Vinko 'explores the peaks and troughs of early motherhood, challenging stereotypes with a tender humorous and searingly honest gaze she evokes the physical and emotional upheavals and identity shifts of this phase of life.’ Charlotte Jansen

This will be followed by a joint discussion with NY Times Senior Photo Editor Culture Jolie Ruben on shared themes in their work, from photographing family to parenting and recognising universal human themes in photography that people respond to on a personal and often emotional level. After the talk there will be a book signing in association with Trolley Books.

RSVP: Book your RSVP here

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 25

9:00am: Private Tour of The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History at The New York Public Library
Please join Curator Elizabeth Cronin and Assistant Curator Maggie Mustard for a before-hours tour through the contemporary works of the exhibition The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History

Capacity: 30
RSVP required: photography@nypl.org
 

9:30am: Curator's Tour of The Ways of Langston Hughes at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Join us for a VIP tour of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's latest exhibition The Ways of Langston Hughes: Griff Davis and Black Artist in the Making. The exhibition offers an intimate look at Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes (1901–1967) through the lens and friendship of pioneering foreign service officer and photojournalist Griffin J. Davis. Hughes forged connections between creative professionals, encouraged the work of others, and helped build a larger network of Black creatives and intellectuals responding to, and shaping, the current events of the time. For more exhibition details, visit nypl.org.

Capacity: 30
RSVP required: schomburgprograms@nypl.org

 

9:30am: VIP Tour of COAL + ICE by photographer Jamey Stillings at Asia Society

Join photographer Jamey Stillings for a walkthrough of the COAL + ICE exhibition, just up the road from the Armory at the Asia Society. COAL + ICE is an immersive photography and video exhibition accompanied by a series of related programs. COAL + ICE visualizes the causes and consequences of the climate crisis and foregrounds creative solutions. AIPAD VIP Pass holders may also receive complimentary access to COAL + ICE during the run of The Photography Show, April 25th - 28th.

Capacity: 20

RSVP: nj@aipad.com

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 26

9:30am: Private Tour of The Real Thing: Unpackaging Product Photography at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Please join us for a tour of The Real Thing: Unpackaging Product Photography with the exhibition’s curator Virginia McBride. The Real Thing explores the role of the camera in commodity culture. Spanning the first century of product photography, it will bring together avant-garde experiments, corporate commissions, and obscure catalogues, united by a common cause: to snatch the ordinary out of context and sell it back at full price. More exhibition details here.

Capacity: 20 people
RSVP required: photographs@metmuseum.org - This event is sold out until further notice.

9:30am: Private Tour of Seen Together: Acquisitions in Photography at The Morgan Library & Museum
An intimate look at previously unexhibited photoworks in the collection (1860s to the present), with curator Joel Smith. 

Capacity - 20
RSVP required: Joel Smith, jsmith@themorgan.org - This event is at capacity - please email Joel Smith to be added to the waitlist.

 

9:30am: VIP Tour of Sidley Collection
Join Cathy Kaplan, retired Sidley partner, for a tour of Sidley’s New York office art collection, during which Cathy will share her perspective on the significance of featured pieces and how this art reflects both historical and personal narratives of the artists. Featuring artists from diverse backgrounds and notable works of photography, Sidley’s collection includes photographs by Gail Albert Halaban, Dawoud Bey, Graciela Iturbide, William Klein, Zanele Muholi, Liliana Porter, Wendy Red Star, Dana Scruggs, and more. Cathy is chair of the Board of Trustees of The Aperture Foundation, co-chair of the Whitney Museum Photography Committee, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Yale University Art Gallery. She also teaches a course on “Law & Finance of the Art Market” at Columbia Law School.

Hosts: Cathy Kaplan & Sidley Austin LLP

Capacity: 25 guests

RSVP required: nyevents@sidley.com - please email to register, and for any questions. Registration will close by 5 pm ET on Tuesday, April 23. If registrants plan to bring a guest, their guest’s name must be shared at the time of registration to ensure all names are shared with security ahead of time.

 

10:00am: Gagosian Tour of Francesca Woodman, With Lissa McClure and Katarina Jerinic

Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York

Join Gagosian for a tour of the exhibition Francesca Woodman at Gagosian, New York, led by Lissa McClure and Katarina Jerinic, executive director and collections curator, respectively, at the Woodman Family Foundation. The pair will guide visitors through the presentation of over fifty prints from approximately 1975 through 1980, in which Woodman situated herself and others within dilapidated interiors and ancient architecture to compose her tableaux. Using objects such as chairs and plinths along with architectural elements including doorways, walls, and windows, she staged contrasts with the performative presence of the figures, presenting the body itself as sculpture.

Capacity - 30
RSVP required: programs@gagosian.com - This event is at capacity - please email to be added to the waitlist.

 

10:00am: Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York Presents: Michael Dayton Hermann: REconstituted
Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York is pleased to welcome VIP guests of The Photography Show for an intimate viewing of Michael Dayton Hermann's exhibition REconstituted, currently showcased at Baxter St's project space. REconstituted explores the photographic frictions between tradition and invention, inviting viewers to reconsider conventional approaches to image-making. This personal walkthrough provides AIPAD's guests with a unique opportunity to interact with Hermann and gain insight into his critical, artistic process. Hermann is part of Baxter St's mid-career initiative, offering mid-career lens-based artists an opportunity to exhibit a solo show.  

Capacity - 30
RSVP required: noa@baxterst.org

 

10:00am: Burns Collection & Archive Tour
Tour the Burns Collection & Archive, one of the world’s largest private collections of historic and documentary photography. Housed in an 1860s townhouse are one million historic photographs from the birth of photography through the atomic age. Over 700 framed images are hung throughout the rooms. One exhibition explores the history of photography, illustrating the art from the daguerreotype to modern silver gelatin prints. Other exhibits focus on African American, medical, war, crime, post-mortem, documentary, and hand-painted photography. Photographs from the Collection have been in exhibitions worldwide, including Musée d’Orsay, Museo Reina Sofia, and the Metropolitan of Art. Founder Dr. Stanley Burns and his daughter, Elizabeth Burns, Collections Manager, personally guide visitors through the building, sharing insights into their unique nineteenth-century collection.

Capacity - 12
*The Burns Archive is not wheelchair accessible.
RSVP required: Liz Burns, liz@burnsarchive.com

 

10AM: VIP Tour of The Photography Show with Susanna Wenniger, Head of Photographs, Artnet and Lydia Melamed Johnson, Executive Director, AIPAD

Join Susanna Wenniger, Head of Photographs, Artnet and Lydia Melamed Johnson, Executive Director, AIPAD, for a private before-hours tour of The Photography Show. 

Capacity: 20

RSVP: https://thephotographyshow.artsvp.com/2143e6/link/artnet

 

10:30am: VIP Tour of Josèfa Ntjam’s Futuristic Ancestry at Fotografiska New York  
VIP guests of The Photography Show are invited to Fotografiska New York for a private tour of Josèfa Ntjam’s Futuristic Ancestry led by Associate Director of Exhibitions, Meredith Breech. The show marks the French artist's first solo U.S. museum show. Through a multi-sensory video experience, biomorphic sculptures and photomontages printed on plexiglass and aluminum, the exhibition explores the artist’s deep interest and research into African mythology, biological processes, science fiction, and the ingrained but outdated ideas about origin, identity and race that rule our world.

Capacity: 30

RSVP required: Click here to register.. Confirmed guests will meet at the museum lobby at 10:30am for check-in.

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 27

10:00am: The Photography Show VIP Reception at Penumbra Foundation
Penumbra Foundation welcomes VIP guests of The Photography Show to a private tour of the foundation, including special viewings of selected rare titles from the Taubman Library Collection and 19-century early New York City photographic lenses from the Berliner Collection, both housed at Penumbra. Guests will learn about Penumbra’s facilities and Public Programs, including its artist residencies and education, and have the opportunity to view the current exhibitions: More than I could ask by Dawn Kim and Process, Object, Residue by Phil Chang. More information at penumbrafoundation.org.

Capacity: 25
RSVP required: lisa@penumbrafoundation.org

 

10:00am: Archive Tour and Highlights from the Museum of the City of New York’s Photography Collection
Please join Sean Corcoran, Senior Curator of Prints and Photographs, for this VIP behind the scenes tour of the Museum’s state of the art storage facility and viewing of a selection of highlights from the museum’s collections – including selections from Berenice Abbott’s Changing New York Archive, the Jacob A. Riis Archive and a selection of exceptional recent acquisitions.
Capacity: 20
RSVP: Cheryl Miller at cmiller@mcny.org - This event is at capacity - please email to be added to the waitlist.

 

10am: Curator Tour at International Center of Photography
Join ICP for a tour with Sara Ickow, Senior Manager, Exhibitions and Collections, of our current exhibitions, ICP at 50 and David Seidner: Fragments, 1977–99.

Capacity: 30
RSVP: Hannah Schifman at HSchifman@icp.org

 

10am: In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection Exhibition Tour at the Brooklyn Museum

Join the Brooklyn Museum for an exhibition tour of In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection exploring nearly fifty women artists who are resisting traditional ideas of gender and nationality, as well as of photography itself.

Capacity: 30

RSVP: VIP@aipad.com

 

10am: Tour of Anselm Kiefer's Punctum with Joshua Chuang at Gagosian Gallery

Gagosian, 976 Madison Avenue, New York

Join Gagosian for a tour of Anselm Kiefer: Punctum at Gagosian, New York, the first exhibition in the United States to center exclusively on the artist’s photography. Joshua Chuang, director of photography at the gallery, will speak with visitors about this important but under-recognized aspect of Kiefer’s practice, which he began in 1968 with the use of his father’s 35mm camera. Photography underpins the evolution of the artist’s paintings and is a key component of his books. Punctum offers new perspectives on Kiefer’s exploration of materials and processes, and on the symbolic and expressive potentials of the photographic medium.

Capacity: 20 

RSVP to programs@gagosian.com

 

10am: LensCulture New York Exhibition 2024 // New Discoveries in Contemporary Photography 

Caelum Gallery 526 West 26th Street #315 New York, NY 10001

LensCulture is proud to exhibit the remarkable work of 65 photographers from 25 countries discovered this year through our awards competitions. Showcasing the potent and diverse talents of our international community of photographers, LensCulture New York 2024 is an expansive group show that is both a global survey and celebration of contemporary image-making today.

Capacity: NA, no RSVP required.

 

2:00-4:00pm: VIP Visit to the Alice Austen House
Executive Director and Curator Victoria Munro will give a tour of the permanent exhibition and current contemporary exhibition of photographs by Ann Shelton, "worm, root, wort... & bane." Attendees will also get a rare viewing of Alice's darkroom and original prints led by Collections Director Kristine Allegretti.

Guests will also have the opportunity to have their portrait taken with our AuraCam6000, a specialized camera system that uses touch sensors to reveal radiant aura fields around the body.

A vibrant cultural center, the Alice Austen House keeps the bold spirit of the early American photographer alive by presenting changing exhibitions of Austen’s pioneering historic photographs and of contemporary photography, providing education programs for students, offering a range of cultural programs for the public.

Capacity: NA

RSVP: Click here to register

PREFERRED HOTEL PARTNERS:

The Gardens Sonesta ES Suites
Reservation booking link: Link here
Reservation Code: G042424PSNY
Telephone Contact: (866) 222-2365
If reserving via phone, please mention ‘The Photography Show NYC Room Block 2024’
For discounted rate, please book by: April 1, 2024
Address: 215 East 64th Street, New York, NY 10065
Subway Lines: 10 minute walk

Fifty Sonesta Select
Reservation booking link: Link here
Reservation Code: G042224AIPA
Telephone Contact: (866) 222-2365
If reserving via phone, please mention ‘The Photography Show NYC Room Block 2024’
For discounted rate, please book by: April 1, 2024
Address: 155 East 50th Street, New York, NY 10022
Subway Lines: 6
Subway Stops: 51st (for Fifty Sonesta Hotel), 68th (for The Armory)

The Shelburne Sonesta
Reservation booking link: Link here
Reservation Code: G042424PSNY
Telephone Contact: (866) 222-2365
If reserving via phone, please mention ‘The Photography Show NYC Room Block 2024’
For discounted rate, please book by: April 1, 2024
Address: 37th Street, New York, NY 10016
Subway Lines: 6
Subway Stops: 42nd (for the Shelburne), 68th (for the Armory)

Freehand Hotel
Reservation booking link: Link here
Telephone Contact: (212) 475-1920
If reserving via phone, please mention ‘The Photography Show 2024’
For discounted rate, please book by: March 22, 2024
Address: 23 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10010
Subway Lines: 6 (green line)
Subway Stops: 23rd (for Freehand Hotel), 68th (for the Armory)

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