The results from Sotheby’s recent Postwar and Contemporary Photographs sale in New York were confidently solid. While there was a little softness in the top lots, the headline Thomas Struth print did sell and the overall Buy-In rate settled in at a respectable 25%. With a handful of positive surprises to pump up the numbers, the Total Sale Proceeds fell into the wide middle of the aggregate pre-sale range.... Read more at Collector Daily.

This is Part 3 of our summary report on the 2017 AIPAD Photography Show. Part 1 of the report (here) covers the broad outlines of the fair, the new venue at Pier 94, the special exhibitions, the photobook area, and other overall reactions and analysis. It also incudes an explanation of the format used in the detailed sideshow below, so start there to get some context before jumping into the booth-by-booth image analysis. Part 2 (with the first half of the highlighted images) can be found here.... Read more at Collector Daily.

Editor’s Note: Each year we ask one perceptive visitor to Paris Photo to collect his/her impressions for an additional perspective on the fair itself and the overall experience – we certainly don’t claim that our summaries are the only intriguing slice of the material on view. Last year, we asked collector W.M. Hunt for his reactions (here); this year we’ve enlisted photography dealer Michael Lee from Massachusetts-based Lee Gallery (here) to give us his thoughts. The comments and opinions expressed here (in the text and in the slideshow captions) are his own.  I’m getting better at Paris. I no longer sleep on ... Read more at Collector Daily.

JTF (just the facts): A group show containing individual works by 17 different photographers, variously framed and matted, and hung against light grey walls in the entry area and the two room gallery space. The following photographers have been included in the show, with the number of works on view and images dates as background: Vito Acconci: 4 gelatin silver prints (and photographic text panel), each mounted to foamcore, 1970/1979 Richard Benson: 52 inkjet prints mounted to wall, 2014 Harry Callahan: 3 gelatin silver prints, 1941 William Christenberry: 20 pigment prints, 1974-2004/2014 Chuck Close: 4 gelatin silver prints with ink, ... Read more at Collector Daily.

JTF (just the facts): A group show containing a total of 26 photographic/video works from 23 photographers/artists, variously framed and matted, and hung against white walls (with yellow accents at the ends) in a large single room gallery space. All of the works have been drawn from the museum’s permanent collection. (Installation shots below.) The following photographers/artists have been included in the exhibit, followed by the number of works on view and their details: Vito Acconci: 1 set of mounted gelatin silver prints, 1972 Juliette Alexandre-Bisson: 1 gelatin silver print, 1919-1920 Diane Arbus: 2 gelatin silver prints, 1963 Lutz Bacher: ... Read more at Collector Daily.

The results of Sotheby’s Paris Photo photographs sale were generally mixed, with a handful of top lots finding buyers offset by an overall Buy-In rate for the entire auction near 45%. This unevenness led to Total Sale Proceeds that just covered the low end of the pre-sale estimate range.... Read more at Collector Daily.