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S144 Saul Leiter
Street Scene, 1963

C-print. Printed in 2002. 13½ x 9". Signed in ink on the verso
Estimate $4,000. Donated by the artist courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery
http://www.howardgreenberg.com

S150 Daido Moriyama
Untitled from the series Japan: A Photo Theater, 1968

Gelatin silver print. Printed in 2012. 13 x 9⅛". Signed in pencil on the verso

Framed. Estimate $3,000. Donated by the artist courtesy of Daido Moriyama

Photo Foundation. www.moriyamadaido.com

 S75 Ken Rosenthal
Not Dark Yet #ZVB-52-9, 2002

Gelatin silver print. Printed in 2002. 15 x 15"
Signed, titled, editioned and year of work in pencil on the verso
Edition no. 4/25. Estimate $1,000
Donated by the artist courtesy of Klompching Gallery and Anne Reed Gallery

S85 Richard Gere
Gilmore Pond II, 2012

Pigment print. 6¼ x 9½". Signed and titled in pencil on the verso
Estimate $1,600. Donated by the artist courtesy of The Gere Foundation
www.gerefoundation.org

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Friends Without A Border
16th Annual Friends of Friends Photography Auction
December 10, 2013, 6-8:30 p.m.
Metropolitan Pavilion, NY

SAUL LEITER: Painter, Photographer, Artist

 Saul Leiter and Jean Pagliuso

Photograph (c) Elizabeth Paul Avedon

SAUL LEITER

(1923 – November 26, 2013)

HOWARD GREENBERG GALLERY: Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier: Self Portrait Exhibition

 Photograph (c) Dina Regine

Vivian Maier: Self Portraits

 

Glass case with Vivian Maier's Rollei and small color prints

Curator Frances Vignola and Filmmaker Collector John Maloof

Also showing, Vivian Maier's unpublished work

An exhibition of self-portraits by recently discovered street photographer Vivian Maier made from 1950 – 1976 are on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery to January 4, 2014. The exhibition coincides with the publication of the book Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits (powerHouse Books, November 2013) that surveys Maier’s self-portraits, many of which are being shown and published for the first time.

The story of Vivian Maier has practically become a photography legend:  Born in New York City in 1926, she spent much of her youth in France. Returning to the U.S. in 1951, she worked as a nanny in Chicago and New York for 40 years. Reclusive and eccentric, she took pictures all the time, yet never showed them to anyone. From the 1950s to the 1990s, with a Rolleiflex dangling from her neck, she made over 100,000 images, primarily of people and cityscapes.

Maier’s massive body of work, which could have been destined for obscurity, was housed in a storage locker in Chicago for many years. Unbeknownst to her caretakers (three of the grown children she had looked after), the contents of her storage locker had been dispersed due to non-payment. Her negatives were discovered by Chicago-based realtor and historian John Maloof at an auction house in Chicago in 2007. Maloof pieced together the identity of the mysterious photographer, but Vivian Maier died in 2009, before Maloof was able to speak with her. In the years that followed, Maloof has brought her work to the attention of the art world and the general public; and since 2010, nearly 20 exhibitions of photographs by Vivian Maier have been mounted in the U.S. and Europe. Numerous critics have written that her work will be remembered as some of the best 20th-century street photography.

Vivian Maier: Self-Portrait at Howard Greenberg Gallery is the first exhibition to explore the photographer’s numerous self-portraits and the first U.S. gallery exhibition of her color work.  

Vivian Maier: Self-Portrait
Exhibition: Nov 7 – January 4, 2014

Howard Greenberg Gallery
41 East 57th Street
New York, NY

Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits
Photographs by Vivian Maier, Edited by John Maloof
Essay by Elizabeth Avedon. Published by powerHouse Books

(Text courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery)

HOWARD GREENBERG GALLERY: Staff Picks

 © Nino Migliori, Il Tuffatore, 1951

Selection by Howard Greenberg

© Saul Leiter, Self Portrait, c.1955

Selection by Nancy Lieberman

© Leon Levinstein, Untitled, 1955

Selection by Franny Vignola

A must see Exhibition! 

Exhibition: Staff Picks 2013

HOWARD GREENBERG GALLERY 
41 East 57th, New York

July 12 – August 31

 An Interview With Howard Greenberg

SCENES FROM THE SOUTH, 1936-2012: An Exhibition at Howard Greenberg Gallery

Bill Burke, Lewis, Vote, Kool, Valley View, Kentucky, 1976

Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York 

William Gedney, Kentucky, 1972

Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

 Peter Sekaer, Billboard, Amarillo, Texas, 1939

Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

 

Walker Evans, Houses and Billboards in Atlanta, Georgia, 1936

Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Joel Meyerowitz, The South, date unknown 

Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Howard Greenberg Gallery

Scenes from the South, 1936-2012

May 9-June 1, 2013

Work by Berenice Abbott, Bill Burke, Edward Burtynsky, William Christenberry, Bruce Davidson, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, William Gedney, Dorothea Lange, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Peter Sekaer, and emerging artists Caroline Allison, Mikael Kennedy, Joshua Black Wilkins, and J.R. Doty. The exhibition is curated by Susan Sherrick, an independent curator based in Nashville.