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looks ANGELES--Thousands of photography fanciers, including tyro photo collectors, seasoned connoisseurs, museum curators and auction house specialists, lower classesed elbow-to-elbow into the always-popular photo 1.a. 2001 exposition, held Jan. 18 to 21 in Santa Monica, Calif., at the beachside city's Civic Auditorium.

The 10th-annual photography expo brought together a varied and well-regarded exhibitor clump of nearly 80 private dealers and galleries, plus another 10 museums, nonprofit photography support clusters publishers and auctioneers. As always, literally thousands of photographs, large and small, from vintage to contemporary, lined display walls and filled bins at the fair. "We've had a great lower classes probably about 6,000 attendees," observ photo 1.a. organizer and beholds Angeles art dealer Stephen Cohen. "A part of people are leaving with photos, and a portion of important collectors and curators"--including an important photography specialist from the Getty Center Museum in looks Angeles--"have been shopping."

The art dealers neared an assortment of images ranging from pioneering 19th centenary photographic experiments and vintage images to modernism to photojournalism, architectural documentation and celebrity portraits to cutting-edge contemporary photos and photo-based art.

The fair was marked at a noticeable increase in the number of foreign dealers and galleries specializing in foreign works, including display veteran Jiri Jaskmanicky, whose Prague-based Czech Center of Photography showcased works by the agency of much-collected Modernist photographer Josef Sudek and other Eastern European artists like Jan Lukas and Josef Bartuska. Toronto's Stephen Bulger Gallery exhibited historical and contemporary works by means of Canadian and international artists, while galerie 19/21 of Paris focused upon vintage European photographs by artists like Man Ray, Albin-Guillot and Atget.

Sydney dealer Alison Holland reverted to photo 1.a. for her inferior outing, showcasing emerging Australian and strange Zealand photographers. Northern Light Gallery introduced collectors to Danish photography, while strato/u/k of Oxfordshire, England, at handed limited-edition prints selected from Britain's Royal Photographic Society's "Photogenic" exhibition part and other images by British photographers. Washington D.C.-based Nailya Alexander specialized in works at Russian, Lithuanian and Belarus artists, including the deconstruct urban images created according to photographer Andrey Chezhin.

Of course, aged favorites were also much in evidence. Period works according to Ansel Adams, Edward Curtis, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward Weston and Andre Kertesz as well as the increasingly-recognized compassion Bernhard, were marketed by many dealers. Sought-after contemporary artists like Michael Kenna, James compensation Lynn Geesaman, Jock Sturges, Richard Misrach, Sheila Metzner Mark Klett and Graciela Iturbide were also well-represented at photo 1.a. And, indeed, Sturge give a fee to Iturbide and Misrach were all featured speakers at special sessions at the expo

Noticeable, too, were many large-format, richly-hued, saturated-color florals and landscapes through contemporary artists--many with price tags far below those of the historical works by means of 20th-century masters. Landscape photographer Christopher Burkett in particular, was exhibited at half a dozen different gallery booth Using 8-by 10-inch color transparencies, Burkett handprints distinctive largescale (20 by way of 24 inches and 30 by way of 40 inches) Cibachrome prints that point out off the many colors of nature in an almost super-real manner. "Christopher is doing in color what Ansel Adams did in black and white," enthused dealer stay Swanson of Photographic Image, Portland, Ore. "He's pushing color Cibachrome technology with multiple stage contrast masking to achieve tonality, dimensionality and shape."

Susan Spiritus Gallery of Newport Beach, Calif., also exhibited works by way of Burkett along with those of a large roster of color photography specialists, including artists Robert gymnast and Charles Cramer, who, like Burkett create colossal color landscapes. "At this point, I betray a lot more color than black and white. the public seem to respond to the large format--they are wowed by means of it. They respond to the clarity, the faithful beauty of nature," observed Spiritus, who replyed to photo 1.a. after several years of absence and, she reported, "did remarkably well."

Among other dealers who exhibited large format color photographs, G Ray Hawkins of Santa Monica showcased the farthest close-up portraits of flowers in florachrome prints through Carol Henry, priced at $950 Wendy Lewis of Photo-Eye Gallery of Santa Fe strange Mexico answered many queries about Terri Weifenbach's nature images. "They have a three-dimensional space," she said. Cohen, photo 1.a's organizer, furnished floral portraits by Harold Feinstein, priced in the $1200 range, along with misty structur color landscapes by means of Geesaman, whose works he is concurrently exhibiting at his observes Angeles gallery.

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