AIPAD: The Photography Show. New Home. New Attitude •

Hurricane LX by Clifford Ross at the Ryan Lee Gallery

AIPAD’s The Photography Show returned with a new home and an a show-stopping attitude. The Photography Show’s new home Pier 94 also serves as the temporary home for The Armory Show, Architectural Digest Home Design Show, The Pier Antiques Show and leading fashion shows during New York Fashion Week.

Structures of Identity: Photography from The Walther Collection -A comprehensive selection of Karl Blossfeldt’s “Art Forms in Nature”

“While the Park Avenue Armory is the most beautiful exhibition space in New York City, the size of the space restricted what dealers could do” Aipad president, dealer Catherine Edelman

Samuel Fosso- Part of Structures of Identity: Photography from The Walther Collection

Pier 94 hosted over 115 international galleries promoting images from the mid-19th Century to current radical talent who personally don’t consider themselves as photographers. The new crop of visual artists’ artistic expression is not only aesthetically alluring to the eye, but also brings awareness to relevant social and environmental issues.

Daniella Zalcman – 2017 recipient of the Arnold Newman Prize For New Directions in Photographic Portraiture.

The harmonious flow of expressions, colors, and presentation among the galleries presented a refined, and pleasing aesthetic. A prominent use of black and white, with sudden vivid pops of primary colors provided an uplifting platform for the focal points in the images. Their minimalist approached catapulted the social messages into outstanding displays.

Staley-Wise Gallery

The extra space at The Photography Show’s new location allowed the addition of new special programs and presentations. For the first time, the fair included a diverse schedule of panels focusing on the social activism portrayals and involvement and the promotion of notable female artists.

Seydou Keïta part of Structures of Identity: Photography from The Walther Collection

Ahmet Ertuğ’ at Elipsis Projects

Structures of Identity: Photography from The Walther Collection

Lise Sarfati “Oh Man” at La Galerie Particuliere

Pieter Hugo part of Fifteen Countries: On Loan from the Collection of Martin Z. Margulies

Fifteen Countries: On Loan from the Collection of Martin Z. Margulies

Dawit L. Petros ‘The Stranger’s Notebook’ at Tiwani Contemporary

The Photography Show was founded in 1979 by AIPAD, (The Association of International Photography Art Dealers). AIPAD’s mission is to create and preserve the utmost level of culture and “ethical practice in the business of exhibiting, buying, and selling fine art photography.” Unlike the typical art fairs, The Photography Show can’t be fully experienced by scanning the best attention-grabbing booths. Sometimes the smallest minimal settings, hold a grand deal of visual display that can only be noticed when seen from up close.