Christie’s Conversations in Photography

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The Art Business Certificate Module 2 – The art Market	£1,000.00		£2,000.00
The Art Business Certificate Module 2 – The art Market	£1,000.00		£2,000.00

Overview

Geared towards the beginner to the more seasoned collector or the curious photographer, Christie’s virtual ‘Conversations in Photography’ provides a behind- the-scenes look at the different aspects of the fine art photography marketplace. Intimate conversations with leaders across the field provide an inside peek into the world of a museum director, museum curator, collector, auction specialist, and book publisher/collector.

Academic Profile

Alice Sachs Zimet, Instructor

Alice Sachs Zimet, President, Arts + Business Partners (ABP) began to collect photography in 1985 and has amassed a collection of over 300 museum-quality images from 20th Century masters through the present. Alice is Chair, Photography Curatorial Committee, Harvard Art Museums; board member, Magnum Foundation; Chair, Acquisitions Committee, International Center of Photography (ICP); and teaches workshops at the ICP School, Griffin Museum, LA Center of Photography, Maine Media Workshops + College and NYU’s Steinhardt School, Graduate Program, Arts Administration. “Collector Profiles" and other press include Private Air magazine, Artsy, Wall Street Journal, Crain’s New York Business, New York Magazine, Inside Philanthropy, The Photograph Collector, and Art + Auction. Alice founded ABP to advise arts groups and business sponsors on corporate sponsorship, after a 20-year career as Director, Worldwide Cultural Affairs, The Chase Manhattan Bank. She created the first corporate sponsorship program in a commercial bank, worked across 14 countries and generated over $2 billion using the arts as a strategic marketing tool. Alice lives and works in New York City and continues to collect.

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Speakers

	Thursday, January 26, 2023 Russet Lederman is a writer, editor and photobook collector who lives in New York City. She has taught art writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York and writes on photobooks for print and online journals, including FOAM, The Eyes, IMA, Aperture, International Center of Photography’s library. She is a co-founder of the 10×10 Photobooks project, co-edits The Gould Collection, lectures internationally on photobooks and regularly contributes essays to anthologies on photography. Her published editorial work has received awards from Paris Photo-Aperture, Kraszna-Krausz Foundation, AIGA, Walter Tiemann, Art Directors Club, Les Rencontres Arles, Prix Ars Electronica and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her most recent publication is What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999.
	Thursday, February 9, 2023 David E. Little is the Executive Director of the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City. Prior to joining ICP in 2021, Little served as the John Wieland 1958 Director and Chief Curator of the Mead Museum of Art at Amherst College from 2015 through 2021. He also held leadership positions in curatorial and education, including Curator and Head of the Photography and New Media at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Associate Director and Helena Rubinstein Chair of Education at the Whitney Museum of American Art; and Director of Adult and Academic Programs at MoMA. David holds an MA in art history from Williams College and a PhD from Duke University. Photograph by Maria Stenzel.
	Thursday, February 2, 2023 Doug Pugh has collected photography for over 20 years representing works by over 200 photographers and artists covering the medium’s history. The collection ranges from mid-19^th Century (Julia Margaret Cameron, Eugene Atget) to 20^th Century masters (Margaret Bourke White, Man Ray, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon) to the present (Edward Burtynsky, Vik Muniz, Cindy Sherman). The collection not only includes many works by well-known photographers, but also ventures into lesser-known areas such as Carte de Visites (CdV), salon pictorialism (1920-1940), select wire photos, and 19^th Century portraits of Native Americans. The most recent additions have focused on contemporary photo-based art. Doug lives in Nashville, Tennessee and works as a portfolio manager in Minneapolis, MN. He was previously a board member and Treasurer of Highpoint Center for Print Making, Minneapolis. He is currently on the Acquisition Committee of The International Center of Photography (ICP), New York.
	Thursday, February 23, 2023 Based in New York City, Darius Himes joined Christie’s in 2014 to oversee a global team producing auctions, exhibitions and catalogues as International Head of the Photographs department. During his time at Christie’s, Himes interviewed Sir Elton John and David Mirvish in 2016 about their long love of photography and work with the Elton John AIDS Foundation. In November, 2017, Christie’s produced a World Auction Record for any classic photograph: Man Ray’s Noire et Blanche, 1926, which sold for $3.1M USD. The recent November, 2022 auction of the Paul G. Allen Collection saw the sale of Edward Steichen’s ‘The Flatiron, 1904’ for nearly $12 million USD. Prior to joining Christie’s, Himes was director of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco from 2011–2014, working closely with their roster of artists and publications. In 2007 he co-founded Radius Books, a non-profit publisher of books on photography and the visual arts, where he still serves on the Board. While working with artists such as John McCracken and Lee Friedlander, he is most proud of publishing first monographs for over a dozen emerging artists, including Colleen Plumb, Aaron Huey, Janelle Lynch, Michael Lundgren, Alison Rossiter, and Meghan Riepenhoff.
	Thursday, February 16, 2023 Howard Greenberg is one of the world's foremost photography gallerists, credited as helping to establish the fine art market. The Howard Greenberg Gallery has an inventory of roughly 30,000 images and has published more than 40 books. Greenberg represents acknowledged masters (Stieglitz, Weston, Lartigue, Evans, William Klein, Bruce Davidson, Saul Leiter, Henri Cartier-Bresson), the estates of Edward Steichen, Arnold Newman, Berenice Abbott, Gordon Parks, Ray Metzker and Vivian Maier, and recently added mid-career contemporary artists to the gallery’s roster (Edward Burtynsky, Joel Meyerowitz, Kenro Izu, Jungjin Lee, Nadav Kandor, Baldwin Lee).Greenberg began his career as a freelance photojournalist, and, in 1981, became a commercial dealer. Greenberg is a member of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA, 2008 to present) and is President of the Board of the Center for Photography in Woodstock. Greenberg’s personal photography collection was acquired in its entirety in 2018 by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Howard lives between Berlin, Germany and New York City. Photograph by Bastiaan Woudt

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All virtual courses are delivered over Zoom with high quality sound & video. There will be an interactive Q & A with the academic as well as time for a group discussion through the lecture.

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