I went into the experience of showing at Photofairs New York without many expectations, this year’s edition having been the first one to take place in New York. But I was very pleasantly surprised at the overall quality of the event and the caliber of galleries present. So I was pleased to read the article “Photofairs New York shows the promise and peculiarity of an evolving market” by Tim Schneider in The Art Newspaper (September 8, 2023) during the fair that, in addition to mentioning my work and quoting Douglas Marshall of Marshall Gallery, brings up good perspective on the place of contemporary photography in the fine-art world and the art-fair space in the art market among other things.
“The medium is still hindered by the perception of editions, multiplicity and reproducibility,” says Douglas Marshall, the founder of Los Angeles-based Marshall Gallery. […]
The irony in Marshall’s case is that several of his artists produce either unique works or unusually small edition runs. Of the three artists on his stand at the Javits Center, only the sepia-toned photos of Albarrán Cabrera are editioned. The others, by John Brinton Hogan and David Samuel Stern, are one-of-a-kind. Prices across the stand range from $1,500 to $8,000 for a backlit portrait of a Julius Caesar bust woven together from strips of translucent vellum.
Read the full article here.