March madness continued with the AIPAD Photography Show New York gala preview benefit, held at the Park Avenue Armory.
The past two weeks in New York City have been filled with art fairs all over town, making for extra excitement in the lives of the art crowd. The fairs go on for days; the artwork goes on for miles. There’s so much to see and take in — and I love it.
The AIPAD (Association of International Photography Art Dealers) evening, in the long string of events and opening parties, was a special one in honor of the John Szarkowski Fund. The Museum of Modern Art’s iconic director of photography from 1962 to 1991, Szarkowski is the godfather of teaching us how to look at photos. His championing of the medium brought it the fine-art status it deserved. The good peeps at AXA Art are sponsoring the show.
AIPAD has a reputation for holding the most influential photography art fair in existence. The proceeds from the benefit will go toward the acquisition of pieces chosen for permanent residence at MoMA.
The Park Avenue Armory is the perfect setting for participating galleries, which camp out there in the most glam of ways and get a chance to mingle with one another as well as a constant flow of visitors.
But tonight, my friends, was a party, and it’s fun for me to walk around and choose what I would buy if I had the money and entertaining myself with my daydream. So many extraordinary photographs — I was having a hard time deciding but settled on some of the classics, like Walker Evans and Richard Avedon, and the contemporary work of Victoria Sambunaris and Alex Prager.
I’m happy to report that the Szarkowski legacy endures today. That’s what godfathers are all about. Cheers to that and to the guests attending, including MoMA curators Roxana Marcoci and Sarah Meister along with writers Vicki Goldberg and Anthony Haden-Guest.
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