Review of AIPAD, New York, by the New York Times
by Ferdinand on March 18, 2011
AIPAD Photography Show New York
By Karen Rosenberg
AIPAD
March 17-20, 2011
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, at 67th Street
Art fairs can seem as if they were outside of history, congested labyrinths that confuse time and place. That’s not often the case with the annual Association of International Photography Art Dealers show, where photojournalism is exhibited alongside artier and more experimental work.
This year’s edition is especially, sometimes painfully, current, as many exhibitors have brought work by Japanese artists. In the case of the Cologne gallery Priska Pasquer, plans were already in the works for a booth of pictures by Nobuyoshi Araki, Daido Moriyama, Shomei Tomatsu and others before the earthquake and tsunami hit.
Mr. Tomatsu is well known for his images of post-atomic Hiroshima and Nagasaki; his shiver-inducing 1961 shot of a bottle melted by the blast is here, along with an image of a wristwatch frozen at 11:02, Aug. 9, 1945. Proceeds from the sale of photographs by a younger artist, Lieko Shiga, will be donated to relief efforts in Japan.
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