W. M. HUNT: Collecting Unlikely Photographs SVA Theatre • 1 Night Only • October 12

 Men with bow ties, 1890's. Horner Studio.

W.M. Hunt Collection

One Ring Circus: On Collecting Unlikely Photographs
Monday, October 12, 2015, 7 PM
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd St. FREE
with W.M. Hunt, Daile Kaplan and Josh Sapan

This is likely to be fascinating. Three long time collectors talk about how and what and why they collect what they collect ... unlikely photographs.

 

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A MUST SEE!

THE CURRENT EXHIBITION 

Hunt’s Three Ring Circus at ICP

Hunt’s Three Ring Circus has been organized by collector and curator W. M. Hunt in collaboration with the International Center of Photography. The exhibition is sponsored by the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, in partnership with Jones Lang LaSalle, as a community-based public service.

Hunt’s Three Ring Circus

September 28, 2015 – January 8, 2016
Gallery // Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery

Between 51st and 52nd Streets, New York City 

HUNT'S THREE RING CIRCUS: American Groups Before 1950 // At ICP

Century Photographers, Edward J. Kelty (American, 1888–1967). Hunt’s Three Ring Circus, Northport, Long Island, NY, June 26, 1931

Men with bow ties, 1890's. Horner Studio

“The Human U.S. Shield, 30,000 Officers; Men, at Camp Custer, Battle Creek Michigan, Brigadier General Howard L. Laubauch, Commanding”, 1918.  Mole; Thomas (Arthur Mole b. England 1889 – died US 1983 & John D. Thomas, American, dates unknown) 

Unknown Studio, Oddfellows, n.d.

Collector and Curator, W. M. Hunt
Photograph © Elizabeth Paul Avedon

Hunt’s Three Ring Circus has been organized by collector and curator W. M. Hunt in collaboration with the International Center of Photography. The exhibition is sponsored by the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, in partnership with Jones Lang LaSalle, as a community-based public service.

Hunt’s Three Ring Circus

September 28, 2015 – January 8, 2016
Gallery // Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery

Between 51st and 52nd Streets, New York City 

The International Center of Photography is the world’s leading institution dedicated to the practice and understanding of photography and the reproduced image in all its forms. Through our exhibitions, educational programs, and community outreach, we offer an open forum for dialogue about the role images play in our culture. www.icp.org

CLAY PATRICK McBRIDE: 3rd Rail at FOLEY

3rd Rail © Clay Patrick McBride

3rd Rail © Clay Patrick McBride

 

The 3rd Rail, a site-specific installation by photo giant Clay Patrick McBride, opened at Foley Gallery this week; part of the gallery’s ongoing storefront window curatorial series. McBride sculpts and pastes his black and white 35mm photographs of people riding the NYC subway to replicate a sense of anxiety and anonymity. The work, exhibited inside the long glass corridor windows on either side of the Gallery entrance-way, is meant to convey the subway rider’s dark and chaotic claustrophobia experience.

W.M. Hunt, Curator and author of The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious told me, “His final project ... was a seemingly enormous 6-foot combination with wood, photographs and drawings that looked like the bowsprit on a ship.  At the beginning of the evening reception, Duane Michals walked in, took a moment to consider what was in front of him, sized it up, and pronounced it “Primal!” It doesn’t get better than that.” read more here....

3rd Rail

Clay Patrick McBride

FOLEY Gallery

59 Orchard Street, NYC

January 21 – February 22, 2015

Read my Interview with Clay Patrick McBride

L'Oeil de la Photographie