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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2015
The Junior League of Houston
Auction Preview, Cocktails, and
Silent Auction Bidding
6:00 pm, Open Bar
Seated Dinner
6:30 pm
6:00 PM
1811 Briar Oaks Lane, Houston, TX 77027
Absentee Bids
Absentee bids will be accepted by mail, telephone,
fax, or e-mail until Tuesday, February 17 at 6 pm.
Silent Auction Lots are available for purchase prior to
the auction with a special “Buy It Now” option. Please
call or visit HCP to purchase in advance.
Phone 713.529.4755 x 15, fax 713.529.9248
or email caroline@hcponline.org
Live Auction with Photography Specialist
and Auctioneer Rick Wester
7:00 pm
Last minute Silent Auction bidding at the conclusion of the
sale of Lot 28. Silent Auction will close following the sale of
Exhibition on view at HCP
January 16–February 16, 2015
1441 West Alabama
Houston, TX 77006
Lot 38 (approximately 30 minutes before the completion of
the Live Auction)
Opening Reception
Friday, January 16, 2015 6–8 pm at HCP
2015 Auction Sponsorship
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Platinum Table—$5,000
Gold Table—$3,000
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Please see our website, www.hcponline.org,
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Tour of the Preview Exhibition
Monday, February 16, 2015, 6–8 pm at HCP
Please join us for a tour of HCP’s 2015 Auction Exhibition,
led by Anne Tucker Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator
of Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and
Clint Willour, Curator, Galveston Arts Center. This tour is
free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by Photo
Forum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Sponsor Ticket—$300
Individual Ticket—$150
Sponsorship Dinner
Reservations are recommended:
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 6–9 pm
713.529.4755 x17 or alex@hcponline.org
Gallery Hours
Wednesday and Thursday, 11 am–7 pm
Friday, 11 am–5 pm
Saturday and Sunday, 11 am–7 pm
or by appointment
Group tours are encouraged
Auction Sponsors
Platinum Table Sponsors
Jereann H. Chaney
Patricia J. Eifel and Jim Belli
Nena and David Marsh
Poppi Massey
Gold Table Sponsors
Julie and Drew Alexander
Diane and John Chaney & Marybeth
and Tom Flaherty & Priscilla and Kirk
Kanady & Judy and Bill Walterman
Krista and Mike Dumas & Sue
and Bob Schwartz
Barbara and Geoffrey Koslov
& Mickie and Mike Marvins
Silver Table Sponsors
Joan & Stanford Alexander
Joe Aker, Aker Imaging
Liz Anders & Associates
Deborah Bay and Edgar Browning
Dan and Bevin Dubrowski
Frazier King & Howard Hilliard
and Betty Pecore
Libbie Masterson & Mavis Kelsey III
Celia and Jay Munisteri
Paul Smead Photography
Scott R. Sparvero
Team Frederick the Great
Dr. and Mrs. Stuart Weil
AUCTION CO-CHAIRS
Joe Aker
Geoffrey Koslov
2015 AUCTION
ART COMMITTEE
Jereann Chaney
Emilee Cooney
Catherine Couturier
Jason Dibley
Brandon Dimit
Caroline Docwra
Bevin Bering Dubrowski
Patricia Eifel
Alexandra Irvine
Frazier King
Galina Kurlat
Jason Landry
Libbie J. Masterson
Roni McMurtrey
Burt Nelson
Michael O’Brien
Edward Osowski
Laura Torgerson
Rick Wester
cover image:
JANET RUSSEK (Santa Fe, NM)
Folded Hands, (2008, printed 2008)
Gelatin silver print
Edition 3 of 10
17.9 x 13.9 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Scheinbaum &
Russek Ltd. (Santa Fe, NM)
photographydealers.com
Signed on recto in pencil
Retail Value $2,000
2015 AUCTION
HOST COMMITTEE
Liz and David Anders
Meredith and Andy Beaupré
Jereann Chaney
Diane and John Chaney
Krista and Mike Dumas
Howard Hilliard and Betty Pecore
Frazier King
Barbara Koslov
Nena and David Marsh
Mickey and Mike Marvins
Celia and Jay Munisteri
Judy and Scott Nyquist
Sue and Bob Schwartz
Jan and Stuart Weil
AUCTION ASSISTANT
Emilee Cooney
Auctioneer
Rick Wester, RWFA
Media Sponsor
PaperCity
Framing Sponsors
Larson-Juhl
Artists’ Framing Resource
Catalog Design
Antonio Manega
Printing
Masterpiece Litho
Vintage Print Photographer
Will Michels
Pat Cook
Catherine Couturier
Malcolm Daniel
Gemma De Santos
Steven Evans
Bill Hunt
Stephan Hillerbrand
Tracey Xavia Karner
Mavis Kelsey, Jr.
Len Kowitz
James E. Maloney
Mike Marvins
Joan Morgenstern
Delilah Montoya
Judy Nyquist
Ed Osowski
Michael Pearson
Ward Pennebaker
Madeline Yale Preston
Christopher Rauschenberg
Mary Virginia Swanson
Laura Torgerson
Anne Tucker
Lou Vest
Wendy Watriss
Clint Willour
Del Zogg
HCP Staff
Sarah Sudhoff,
Executive Director
Alexandra Irvine,
Administrative Director
Bevin Bering Dubrowski,
Creative Director
Juliana Forero, Ph.D.,
Director of Education
Sean Yarborough,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OFFICERS
Jereann Chaney, PRESIDENT
Nena Marsh, VICE PRESIDENT
Deborah Bay, SECRETARY
Liz Anders, TREASURER
Bob Schwartz, PARLIAMENTARIAN
MEMBERS-AT-LARGE
Joe Aker
Chuy Benitez
Kofi Burney
John D. Chaney
Krista Dumas
Tom Flaherty
Patricia Eifel
Howard Hilliard
Jean Karotkin
Mavis Kelsey III
Frazier King
Geoffrey Koslov
Jay Munisteri
Alison Porter
Margaret Rotan
Bill Walterman
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Fred Baldwin
Gay Block
Peter Brown
Keith Carter
Fernando A. Castro
Director of Finance
Caroline Docwra,
Programs Coordinator
Sinai Tirado,
Membership Coordinator
Jamie Robertson,
Outreach Coordinator
Daniela Galindo,
Digital Darkroom Manager
Jessi Bowman,
Exhibitions Assistant
Emilee Cooney,
Auction Assistant
Michael O’Brien,
Gallery Associate
Jonathan Beitler,
Public Relations and Media Consultant
Special thanks to
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Anne Tucker, Gus and Lyndall Wortham
Curator of Photography, The Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston, and Clint Willour, Curator,
Galveston Arts Center
HCP gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the photographers
whose donations to our auction will make this fundraising event a success.
also
Rick Wester Fine Art
Larson-Juhl
AFR
PaperCity
HCP deeply appreciates the contributions of our sponsors, participating
galleries, collectors and individual donors. Their support helps HCP offer
high-quality exhibitions, educational classes and lectures, outreach programs,
publications, and special events to its members and the community.
Special thanks to all of the galleries that donated their time
and contributed to this auction.
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Anya Tish Gallery
ARTISTS’ FRAMING
RESOURCES
Catherine Couturier Gallery
ClampArt
Corden|Potts Gallery
Houston Endowment ; City of Houston through Houston Arts
Alliance; The Brown Foundation; The Eleanor and Frank Freed
Foundation; Meyer Levy Charitable Foundation; Simmons
Foundation; Julie and Drew Alexander; Patricia J. Eifel and
Jim Belli; Artists’ Framing Resourc; Larson-Juhl; Antonio
Manega,/Gazer Design; JBD Foundation; Joe Aker; Deborah
Bay and Edgar Browning; The John M. O’Quinn Foundation;
Sterling-Turner Foundation; Poppi Massey; Howard Greenberg
Gallery; Cemo Family Foundation; John D. Chaney; Barbara
and Geoffrey Koslov; Art Colony Association; Frazier King;
Gardere, Wynne, Sewell LLP; Celia and Jay Munisteri; Joan
and Stanford Alexander; Charles Butt; Joan Morgenstern;
Burt Nelson; Jereann Chaney; James E. Maloney; Sue and Bob
Schwartz; Bob Gomel; Mid America Arts Alliance; The Joan
Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation; The Wortham Foundation,
Inc.; Texas Commission on the Arts; Dornith Doherty; Jessica
Todd Harper; Kathryn and Tim Lee; Whole Foods Market;
Susan and Patrick Cook; Elizabeth and David Anders; Howard
Hilliard and Betty Pecore; Renate Aller; Ballard Exploration
Company, Inc.; Lillian H. & C.W. Duncan Foundation; Paul M.
Hertzmann, Inc.; Wendy and Mavis Kelsey, Jr.; Stuart C. Nelson
FS; Amegy Bank; Catherine Couturier Gallery; Andy Freeberg;
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D. Marsh; Tatiana and Craig Massey; Brad Temkin; Lauren
Marsolier; Rebecca Roof; Jim Dow; Natan Dvir; Sally and John
Hopper; Joel Lederer; The GE Foundation; Rubi Lebovitch;
Thomas Damsgaard; Cara and Jorge Barer; Keliy AndersonStaley; Krista and Mike Dumas; Sherry and James Kempner;
James R. Fisher; Aker Imaging; Kevin E. Bassler; Cameron
International Corporation; Houston Camera Exchange; Jerry
Reed; Robertson-Finley Foundation; Jeremy Underwood; QUE
Imaging; Frank Sherwood White; John C. Lewis; Mike Stude;
Bevin and Dan Dubrowski; Vadim Gushchin; Dodie Otey and
Richard S. Jackson; Bob Gulley; Azita Panahpour; Bryan
Schutmaat; Paul Smead; Eddie Allen and Chinhui Juhn; Gay
Block; Sanford L. Dow; Martin Elkort; Kathleen Schmeler;
Susan and Steve Solcher; Scott R. Sparvero; Tamara Staples;
The Beth Block Foundation; Louis Vest; William Winkler; Eric
Faust; Keith Carter; Libbie J. Masterson; ExxonMobil Foundation; Christopher Ashby; Janet and Roger Durand; Kelly and
Norman Bering; Laura and Tom Bacon; Donna J. Wan; Corey
Arnold; Carolyn Brown; Caleb Charland; Wyatt Gallery;
Judy Haberl; Henry Horenstein; Manjari Sharma; Priscilla
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Wallace Wilson; Anne Tucker; Marcia Patrick; Shelley Calton;
Randy and Laurie Allen; Susan Burnstine; Michael Crouser; Joe
Levit Family Foundation; Robert L. Gerry, III; Molly Hipp and
Ford Hubbard, III; Leslie and Mark Hull; Fan and Peter Morris;
J. Andrew Nairn; Dee Ann Pederson; Betsy and Charles Powell;
Del Zogg
DeVito-Landry Collection
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Harris Gallery
Howard Greenberg Gallery
Inman Gallery
John Maloof
Julie Saul Gallery
Longnecker Gallery
McMurtrey Gallery
Panopticon Gallery
PDNB Gallery
Photo Gallery International Tokyo
Photo-eye Gallery
Pictura Gallery
Richard Levy Gallery
Rick Wester Fine Art
Rose Issa Projects
Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd.
sepiaEYE
Stephen Clark Gallery
Wall Space Gallery
CLAMPART
521-531 West 25th Street
Ground Floor
New York City 10001
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LIVE AUCTION
1. Kate Breakey’s photographic career has been
centered on pictures of dead animals, including a series
of photograms, a technique she has been experimenting
with since art school. She has written that she burns the
shadows of each plant or animal onto the photographic
paper “with light and with love.” This work was published
in the book Las Sombras/The Shadows by UT press in
2012. A native of South Australia who has also lived and
worked in Texas, Breakey now resides and photographs
in the desert outside of Tucson. She has won numerous
awards, including being named HCP’s Artist of the Year
in 2004, and her work appears in public and private
collections across the world. She is represented in
Houston by McMurtrey Gallery.
2. Jennifer Schlesinger is an artist, curator, and
educator who holds a BA in photography and journalism
from the College of Santa Fe. Her work has been
exhibited at the Southeast Museum of Photography
and the Chelsea Art Museum. She has received several
honors including a Golden Light Award in Landscape
Photography from the Maine Photographic Workshops
and the Center for Contemporary Arts Photography
Award in Santa Fe, NM, both in 2005. She was the
Assistant Director of the Santa Fe Art Institute from
2003–2005 and has been the Director of VERVE Gallery
of Photography since 2005.
1 KATE BREAKEY (Tucson, AZ)
2 JENNIFER SCHLESINGER (Santa Fe, NM)
House Sparrow Flying Right, (2012, printed 2012)
From the series Las Sambras
Photogram
Edition 2 of 10
10 x 10 inches
Courtesy of the artist and McMurtrey Gallery (Houston, TX)
katebreakey.com mcmurtreygallery.com
Signed on verso in pen
Retail Value $830
Here nor there, (2011, printed 2014)
From the series Here nor There (2011–2013)
Albumen print
Edition 4 of 9
4.3 x 2 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Couturier Gallery
(Houston, TX)
jenniferschlesinger.com catherinecouturier.com
Signed on recto in pencil
Retail Value $1,000
3 BASTIENNE SCHMIDT (Bridgehampton, NY)
4 BRANDON THIBODEAUX (Dallas, TX)
Untitled, 2014
From the series The Record
Chromogenic print
Edition AP
16 x 20 inches
Courtesy of the artist
bastienneschmidt.com
Retail Value $2,400
Birds in Field, Mound Bayou, Mississippi,
(2010, printed 2014)
From the series When Morning Comes
Inkjet print
Edition 5 of 10
15 x 15 inches
Courtesy of the artist
brandonthibodeaux.com
Signed on verso in pencil
Retail Value $1,200
3. Bastienne Schmidt was born in Munich, Germany
and studied art, painting and photography after
studying anthropology at the Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversitaet. Schmidt’s art and photography have been
widely published and exhibited throughout the US and
internationally. She is represented in the collections of
the Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston; Corcoran Gallery of Art; Center for Creative
Photography, Tucson; International Center of Photography,
The Brooklyn Museum, The Victoria and Albert Museum,
among others.
4. Dallas-based Brandon Thibodeaux creates portraits
in the documentary tradition exploring life in the
American South. As a journalism student at the University
of North Texas he focused on agricultural economies.
In 2009 he travelled to the Mississippi Delta, meeting
people and making important relationships over a fouryear period which resulted in the series When Morning
Comes. A solo exhibition of the series has been shown
at Newspace Center for Photography in Portland among
other venues and will travel to Vienna, Austria in 2015.
He is a member of the photography collective MJR, based
in New York City.
5. For Stephen Mallon’s series Next Stop Atlantic, the
artist spent three years capturing images from Delaware
to South Carolina, documenting the NY Metropolitan
Transit Authority’s recycling program. During the past
decade, over 2,500 subway cars have been deposited
in the ocean to help rebuild underwater reefs along the
eastern seabed. “After being pushed and stacked like
a sardine in these subway cars over the past decade,”
writes Mallon, “it’s nice to see the sardine actually getting
one of these as its new steel condo.” His work has been
exhibited widely, and he has been commissioned by
a wide range of clients, including the New York Times
Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. Mallon’s photos
have been honored by Communication Arts, Photo District
News, The New York Photo Festival, the Lucie Awards,
International Color Awards, and Photo Lucida’s Critical
Mass top 50.
6. Houston-born photographer and mixed-media artist
Leslie Field has been working since the late 1990s.
Guided by a curious nature, she works in alternative
processes, photo-sculpture, and installation. The
Kaleidoscope Mandala series expresses the ideas of
motion, change, and abstraction that she invites into
all of her art. Her work has been exhibited throughout
Texas, California, Vermont, and New York. Her artwork
is in numerous private collections and in the permanent
collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
5 STEPHEN MALLON (Brooklyn, NY)
Surface, 2014
From the series American Reclamation Volume 2: Next
Stop Atlantic
Chromogenic print
Edition 2 of 5
20 x 30 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Front Room Gallery
(Brooklyn, NY)
stephenmallon.com frontroomgallery.com
Signed on verso in pencil
Retail Value $1,900
6 LESLIE FIELD (Houston, TX)
“The moon turns it clockwork dream—the biggest stars
look at me with your eyes”, (2004, printed 2014)
From the series Kaleidoscope Mandala
Edition 1 of 1
24 x 24 inches
Courtesy of the artist
lesliefield-art.com
Signed on verso in pen
Retail Value $2,700
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7. Adrián Fernández Milanés was born in Havana,
Cuba in 1984, and studied at the Superior Institute of Art.
His series Life Style is a visually stunning look into the
lives of Cuba’s wealthy class. He has exhibited at Carrie
Haddad Photographs Gallery, New York; The Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston and Musee Quai Branly, Paris, France.
Fernández’s Life Style was exhibited at HCP in 2011,
marking his first solo exhibition in the United States.
8. Houston artist Cara Barer transforms books into art
by sculpting them, dyeing them, and then through the
medium of photography, presents them anew as objects
of beauty. She creates a record of that book and its halflife. Books—as both physical objects and repositories
of information—are being displaced by zeros and ones
in a digital universe with no physicality. Through her
art, she documents this and raises questions about the
fragile and ephemeral nature of books and their future.
She studied at the Glassell School of Art and the San
Francisco Art Institute. Now living in Texas, she uses
old phone books, computer manuals, maps, and comic
books to create hypnotic sculptures, which she then
memorializes through her photographs.
9. Mohammed Saad Al Shammarey was born in
Baghdad, Iraq in 1962, and has lived and worked in
Houston since 2008. Al Shammarey has established a
body of photo-based and video work that is an ongoing
commentary of the crises of Iraqi culture: wars, rebellion,
estrangement, loss, suffering, and the inevitable personal
struggle. Simultaneously, his work is an inquiry into
the humanistic elements and ramifications of Islamic
philosophy, and an investigation into the yearning of
the soul for the sublime. His work has been exhibited in
such venues as the British Museum, London; Columbia
University, New York; The Station Museum, Houston; and
the Cairo International Biennale, Egypt.
10. Houstonian Geoff Winningham is well known as a
photographer, filmmaker, journalist and educator. In the
1970s, Winningham’s subjects were either unique to or
characteristic of Texas, captured in his distinctive 35mm
black and white photographs. He has produced three
documentary films, including The Pleasure of his Stately
Dome, a study of the Astrodome as a folk theater, which
won the Documentary prize at the 1976 Edinburgh Film
Festival. His two most recent books, Traveling the Shore
of the Spanish Sea: The Gulf Coast of Texas (2010) and
Mexico and Going Back to Galveston: Nature, Funk, and
Fantasy in a Favorite Place (2011), were published by
Texas A&M University Press. He teaches photography in
the Department of Visual Arts at Rice University.
11. Torrie Groening is a multi-passionate print
enthusiast, whose involvement in over 25 years of
printmaking has included roles as artist, master printer,
teacher, gallerist, and collector of works on paper.
Returning to Vancouver after a decidedly digital decade
in California, she has become a master of mixing media.
Combining traditional printmaking and photography with
digital technology, Groening creates complex photobased collages. In her current work, she layers altered
photographs of drawings, prints, objects, and landscapes
to create incongruous yet familiar trompe l’oeil images.
Her prints are included in museum and public collections
across Canada and the US.
12. Luis Mallo was born in Havana, Cuba in 1962. He
studied graphic design in New York, but his immediate
interest after leaving school became the photographic
medium and its creative potential. His series of largescale urban landscapes, In Camera, have been described
as cleverly realized perceptual puzzles. He is a recipient
of the Cintas Foundation Award, the Sony World
Photography Award and The Art Matters Photography
Award. His photographs are included in the permanent
collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, George
Eastman House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the New
York Public Library, as well as other public and private
collections.
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7 ADRIÁN FERNÁNDEZ MILANÉS (Havana, Cuba)
8 CARA BARER (Houston, TX)
Untitled #2, (2010, printed 2014)
From the series About the aesthtic possibility of
emptiness
Inkjet print
Edition 1 of 15
19.7 x 19.7 inches
Courtesy of the artist
adrianfernandezphotography.com
Signed on certificate in marker
Retail Value $1,700
Shavasana, (2014, printed 2014)
Inkjet print
Edition 3 of 9
24 x 24 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Longnecker Gallery (Houston,
TX)
carabarer.com longneckergallery.com
Signed on recto in pencil
Retail Value $2,400
9 MOHAMMED AL SHAMMAREY (Houston, TX)
10 GEOFF WINNINGHAM (Houston, TX)
Tradtional White, (2013, printed 2014)
Inkjet print
Edition 2 of 7
27 x 22 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Anya Tish Gallery
(Houston, TX)
shammarey.com anyatishgallery.com
Signed on recto in pencil
Retail Value $3,600
Destruction Derby in the Astrodome, (1972, printed ?)
Vintage gelatin silver print
12 x 18 inches
Courtesy of the artist
geoffwinningham.com
Signed on recto in pen
Retail Value $2,500
11 TORRIE GROENING (Vancouver, Canda)
12 LUIS MALLO (Brooklyn, NY)
A Sudden Flutter, (2008, printed 2008)
Inkjet print
Edition 6 of 15
24 x 36 inches
Courtesy of the artist
torriegroening.com
Signed on engraved signature on verso
Retail Value $2,800
#58, (2005, printed 2009)
From the series In Camera
Chromogenic print
Edition 2 of 7
19 x 23 inches
Courtesy of the artist
luismallo.com
Signed on verso in marker
Retail Value $2,500
13. David Wolf is a devoted film photographer, making
both color and black-and-white prints by hand in the
traditional darkroom. His work has been exhibited
internationally and has been acquired by numerous
public and private collections. David’s series Nurturing
Time: Life in a Backyard Garden is featured in HCP’s
current issue of Spot magazine, and recently won top
honors in both the International Photography Awards and
the Grand Prix de la Decouverte, International Fine Art
Photography Competition. A Boston native and Brown
University graduate, David now calls San Francisco home,
where his work is represented by Corden|Potts Gallery.
14. Lydia Goldblatt trained at the London College
of Communications, receiving a Masters’ Degree in
Photography in 2006. Her series, Still Here, was the
subject of a solo exhibition at the Felix Nussbaum
Museum in Germany in 2013, and was recently
published as an artist monograph by fine art publishers
Hatje Cantz. In 2010 she was nominated for the
Sovereign European Art Prize, and in 2011 was awarded
the Fundacion Botin Residency Award with Paul Graham.
In 2013 she was the recipient of the Magenta Flash
Forward Award and International Jewish Artist of the
Year award. She has just been announced as 2014’s
Grand Prix winner of the Tokyo International Photography
Festival Competition.
13 DAVID WOLF (San Francisco, CA)
14 LYDIA GOLDBLATT (London, United Kingdom)
Orange Tree, Blossoms, Leaves and Fruit,
(2008, printed 2013)
From the series Nurturing Time, Life in a Backyard Garden
Chromogenic print
Edition AP 1/2
19.4 x 23.3 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Corden|Potts Gallery
(San Francisco, CA)
davidwolfphotographs.com cordenpottsgallery.com
Signed on mount, on verso, in pencil
Retail Value $2,050
Light Lines, 2014
From the series Still Here (2010–2013)
Chromogenic print
Edition AP 1 (from edition of 6 + 3 APs)
16 x 16 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Rick Wester Fine Art
(New York, NY)
lydiagoldblatt.com rwfa.com
Retail Value $2,200
15. Born in Germany, Renate Aller lives and works in
New York. Renown for her ocean photographs, Aller
began to photograph deserts in 2009 resulting in
the series, Ocean | Desert. Aller’s photos capture the
similarities and contrasts between the extreme terrains,
occasionally including human elements to analyze our
relationships with these formidable landscapes. A book of
the same title has been published by Radius Books. Her
work is held in numerous public and private collections,
including the Lannan Foundation, Yale University
Art Gallery, George Eastman House, and Hamburger
Kunsthalle. She is represented by Catherine Couturier
Gallery in Houston.
16. As a portrait photographer, Gay Block began in 1973
with portraits of her own affluent Jewish community
in Houston and later expanded this study to include
South Miami Beach and girls at summer camp. In 2003,
Block’s 30-year portrait of her mother in photographs,
video, and words, Bertha Alyce: Mother exPosed, was
published by UNM Press and began as a traveling exhibit.
In 2006, Block re-photographed women who were
girls in her 1981 series from Camp Pinecliffe, 25 years
before. Block’s photographs are included in museums
and private collections including MoMA New York, San
Francisco MoMA, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
She currently lives and works in Santa Fe and serves on
HCP’s Advisory Committee.
15 RENATE ALLER (New York, NY)
16 GAY BLOCK (Santa Fe, NM)
White Sand, March 2013
From the series Ocean|Desert
Inkjet print
Edition 1 of 10
28 x 40 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Couturier Gallery
(Houston, TX)
renatealler.com catherinecouturier.com
Signed on verso in archival pen
Retail Value $4,900
Untitled (Four Talk on Beach), 2014
From the series Miami, South Beach
Inkjet print
Edition AP
23.5 x 18.8 inches
Courtesy of the artist
gayblock.com
Signed on verso in pen
Retail Value $1,800
17. Richard Tuschman began experimenting with digital
imaging in the early 1990s, developing the signature
style that synthesized his interests in graphic design,
photography, painting and assemblage. This digital
work found a wide audience in the commercial sector,
and his work has since been featured on the pages of
multiple magazines, annual reports, book jackets, and
catalogs. He describes his series Hopper Meditations, “as
dramas for a small stage, with the figures as actors in a
one-act play… they are rooted specifically in the past,
somewhere in Hopper’s mid-20th century. The themes
they evoke, though—solitude, alienation, longing—are
timeless and universal.” He was the recipient of a 2013
LensCulture Exposure Award for this portfolio of images.
18. Emirati artist Maitha Bin Demithan explores the
traditions of the UAE, focusing on some of the rituals
and symbolism that have historically made her culture
distinct. Theatrically staged on black backdrops,
garments such as a burqa, thoab and bisht are revered
as precious specimens of heritage, many of which are
disappearing from Emirati life. Her portraits consist
of multiple scans (“scanography”) manually stitched
together, as if by hand. She received a BFA from Zayed
University, Dubai, in 2012. This work was included in her
solo exhibition Ajyal: Generations on view at HCP during
FotoFest 2014.
17 RICHARD TUSCHMAN (Forest Hills, NY)
18 MAITHA BIN DEMITHAN (United Arab Emirates)
Green Bedroom (Morning), (2013, printed 2014)
From the series Hopper Meditiations
Inkjet print
Edition 4 of 9
20 x 15.5 inches
Courtesy of the artist and photo-eye Gallery (Santa Fe, NM)
richardtuschman.com photoeye.com
Signed on verso in pencil
Retail Value $2,000
Ajyal, (2012, printed 2013)
From the series Ajyal
Inkjet print
30 x 48 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Retail Value $1,500
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19. Living and working near Zurich, Switzerland, Ferit
Kuyas committed himself to photography in the 1980s
after graduating from law school. Kuyas has published
several books, including City of Ambition, featuring large
cityscapes from the megalopolis Chongqing, China.
Ferit’s photographs have been shown in museums,
galleries and festivals in Europe, the Americas, and in
Asia. His work is represented in private, corporate and
public collections. He has received a number of awards,
among them the Kodak Photobook-Award and the
Hasselblad Masters award.
20. Amy Blakemore is renowned for her deceptively
simple photographs of friends, family, and local
landscapes. Her images evoke fleeting aspects of
personality and memory and have been shown in
numerous exhibitions, including the 2006 Whitney
Biennial and a 20-year retrospective organized by The
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in 2009. Blakemore has
worked for the past 20 years with low-tech, mediumformat Diana cameras known for flaws that produce
a flattened perspective, color shifts, vignetting, and
blurriness. Blakemore manipulates these flaws to capture
the way memory simultaneously records and distorts
visual information.
19 FERIT KUYAS (Ziegelbruecke, Switzerland)
20 AMY BLAKEMORE (Houston, TX)
Floppy Drive, 2013
Archival pigment print from polaroid transfer
Edition 1 of 12
11 x 9 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Couturier Gallery
(Houston, TX)
feritkuyas.net catherinecouturier.com
Retail Value $800
Rooster, 2012
From the series New Pictures
Chromogenic print
12 x 12 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Inman Gallery (Houston, TX)
inmangallery.com
Retail Value $2,500
21 ISA LESHKO (Salem, MA)
22 SMILEY POOL (Houston, TX)
Disenchantment, 2010
From the series Thrills & Chills
Gelatin silver print
Edition 11 of 20
9 x 9 inches
Courtesy of the artistand Richard Levy Gallery
(Albequerque, NM)
isaleshko.com levygallery.com
Signed on verso in pencil
Retail Value $1,100
Olympics, 2014
From the series Summer Olympics | Beijing
Inkjet print
12 X 18 inches
Courtesy of the artist
smileypool.com
Signed on recto in pen
Retail Value $750
23 BRETT WESTON (American 1911–1993)
24 MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO (Mexican 1902–2002)
Rust and Paint, 1976
From the series Abstractions 2
Gelatin silver print
13 x 10.5 inches
Courtesy of an anonymous donor
brettwestonarchive.com
Signed on recto in pencil
Retail Value $4,500
Paisaje inventado [Invented Landscape], (1972,
printed 1974)
From the series Portfolio of Fifteen Photographs
Gelatin silver print
Edition 25 of 75
11 x 14 inches
Courtesy of Joe Aker & Aker Imaging (Houston, TX)
azphoto.com
Signed on recto in pencil
Retail Value $5,000
21. Terrified by amusement park rides, Isa Leshko began
photographing them to explore the fantastic and sinister
place these rides held in her imagination. Exploring a
range of emotions from anger to shock to exultation, her
Thrills and Chills series examines the tensions that exist
between fantasy and reality. Leshko grew up in Carteret,
NJ, and received a BA from Haverford College where she
studied cognitive psychology, neurobiology, and gender
studies. She studied photography at the New England
School of Photography. Her work is represented by
Corden|Potts Gallery, San Francisco.
22. Since the mid-1980s, photojournalist Smiley N.
Pool has been collecting images that capture the
critical stories of our time. He’s covered the aftermath
of Hurricane Katrina and 9/11, the travels and funeral
of Pope John Paul II, nine Olympic Games, professional
sporting events, visiting dignitaries and presidential
inaugurations. He is a seven-time winner of the National
Press Photographers Association regional photographer
of the year award. A native Texan who was born in
Galveston, Pool is currently the chief photographer and
photo coach at the Houston Chronicle.
23. Born in Los Angeles in 1911, Brett Weston was
the second son of photographer Edward Weston. In
1925, Edward removed Brett from school and took
him to Mexico. Surrounded by revolutionary artists of
the day, such as Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo and Diego
Rivera, and influenced as well by the striking contrast
of life in Mexico, it was there that Brett first began
making photographs. A quality of design was evident
in Brett’s early images of the organic and man-made.
He appreciated how the camera transformed subjects
close up and how the contrast of black and white further
altered the recognition of an object. Throughout the
decades of the 1950s through the 1980s, Weston’s
style changed sharply and was characterized by high
contrast, abstract imagery. He concentrated mostly on
close-ups and abstracted details, but his prints reflected
a preference for high contrast that reduced his subjects
to pure form. He died in Kona, Hawaii, in 1993.
24. Manuel Álvarez Bravo, one of the founders
of modern photography, is considered the main
representative of Latin American photography in the
20th century. His work extends from the late 1920s to
the 1990s. As a self-taught photographer, he would
explore many different techniques, as well as graphic
art. He worked for the muralists Diego Rivera, José
Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Between
1943 and 1959, he worked in the film industry doing
still shots, which inspired him to realize some of his own
experiments with cinema. While he was alive, he held
over 150 solo exhibitions and participated in over 200
group exhibitions. He died in 2002 at the age of 100.
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25. Adam Magyar finds innovative ways to use
technology to observe life. That led him to capture the
passing of time and freeze it into still photographs and
videos. Using modified or self-built high-tech digital tools
and cameras that “see” what the human eye cannot see
and the human nature rarely perceives, he has created
mesmerizing representations of speeding subway trains
and of flows of people on busy sidewalks. Born and raised
in Hungary and now based in Berlin, he travels the world
extracting his images from the simple, ever-changing
nature of daily urban life.
26. Lou Vest is a ship pilot based in Houston. For the last
10 years, he has photographed “from his office window”
along the Ship Channel. From the grand, open views
of sea, sky and the bridges of the ships he pilots to the
portraits of the people he meets in the course of his work,
Vest captures rarely seen images that are a key component of Houston. His work has been exhibited at HCP,
Williams Tower, Houston Public Library, and other venues.
In 2012, Vest had a solo exhibition at the Houston Arts Alliance Gallery. He has been named one of Houston’s “100
Creatives” and one of Houston’s “Ten Best” photographers
by the Houston Press. He currently serves on HCP’s Advisory Council.
25 ADAM MAGYAR (Berlin, Germany)
1364, (2009, printed 2014)
From the series Urban Flow
Inkjet print
Edition 1 of 6
24 x 43 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Julie Saul Gallery
(New York, NY)
magyaradam.com saulgallery.com
Signed on sticker on verso
Retail Value $4,500
26 LOU VEST (Houston, TX)
Sailor’s Sunset, (2013, printed 2014)
Inkjet print
24 x 24 inches
Courtesy of the artist
louvest.com
Signed on verso in pencil
Retail Value $900
27. Over the past decade Laurie Lambrecht has been
photographing trees in urban areas, often revisiting and
further exploring their individual character. This series
Lake Trees, was begun in November 2004 on the edge of
Lake Zurich, Switzerland. Two influences which inspire her
vision are her experiences of dancing and weaving—both
cause her to think about the static aspects of trees as well
as their growth and movement. She recently was an artistin-residence at the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva,
FL, where she continued her photographic exploration of
perception, nature and the landscape.
28. Osamu James Nakagawa received his MFA from
the University of Houston and currently teaches at Indiana
University in Bloomington. Nakagawa is a recipient of many
prestigious awards, including a 2015 Insight Award from
the Society for Photographic Education, 2014 Sagamihara
Photographer of the Year in Japan, 2009 John Simon
Guggenheim fellowship. Nakagawa’s work has been
extensively exhibited nationally and internationally, including
solo exhibitions at the Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa; SEPIA
International, New York; and Photo Gallery International,
Tokyo. Nakagawa’s work is in the permanent collection of
the Metropolitan Museum, George Eastman House, Tokyo
Metropolitan Museum of Photography, The Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston and others.
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28 OSAMU JAMES NAKAGAWA (Bloomington, IN)
27 LAURIE LAMBRECHT (Bridgehampton, NY)
Jungle Road, 2012
From the series Jungle Road
Inkjet print
33 x 22 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Rick Wester Fine Art
(New York, NY)
laurielambrecht.com rwfa.com
Signed on with title, date, and numbered on verso in ink
Retail Value $3,500
Cover UP, (1997, printed 2014)
From the series Drive in Theater/Billboard
Inkjet print
Unique edition
13.5 x 20 inches
Courtesy of the artist, sepiaEYE (New York, NY),
Photo Gallery International Toyko and
Pictura Gallery (Bloomington IN)
osamujamesnakagawa.com sepiaeye.com pgi.ac
picturagallery.com
Signed on verso in pencil
Retail Value $3,500
29. Egyptian visual artist Nermine Hamman’s densely
composed figurative prints lie between the mediums of
painting and photography. Her series Wetiko: Cowboys
and Indigenes meshes paintings of the American Wild
West of the 18th and 19th centuries with contemporary
photojournalism from the East largely drawn from
media accounts of the “Arab Spring” and the Gulf
Wars. Through thoughtful manipulation of these source
materials introduces points of historical and cultural
intersection and interpretation. This series was exhibited
at HCP during FotoFest 2014. She received a BFA in
filmmaking from Tisch School of Arts, NYU.
30. Russell Werner Lee graduated from Lehigh University
in 1925 with a degree in engineering. Lee’s work is
associated with the documentary tradition and the work
of the Farm Security Administration. As part of the team
that also included Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein and
Walker Evans, Lee’s primary task was to document rural
communities to inform urban Americans aware of the
plight of tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and migrant
workers stricken by drought and the Great Depression.
From 1965 to 1973 he taught photography at The
University of Texas.
29 NERMINE HAMMAN (Cairo, Egypt)
30 RUSSELL WERNER LEE (American 1903–1986)
The Coming of the “Fire Horse”, by Henry F. Farny (1910)
From the series Wetiko
Mixed media
27.6 x 39.4 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Rose Issa Projects (London, UK)
nerminehammam.com roseissa.com
Retail Value $5,500
Saying grace before the Pie Town, New Mexico, Fair, Oct.
1940, (1940, printed 1985)
Dye transfer print
6.5 x 10 inches
Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery (New York, NY)
howardgreenberg.com
Signed on Credit and copyright stamps on the verso,
with inscriptions in pencil by an unknown hand Print
signed by Tennyson Schad.
Retail Value $4,000
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31. Walker Pickering is an artist and educator based
in Lincoln, NE. He is an Assistant Professor of Art at the
University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he has taught
photography since 2014. His work employs documentary
aesthetics, and he uses photography as a means to
get access to people and places that might otherwise
be inaccessible. His recent work, Esprit de Corps, is a
long-term study of youth marching band and drum corps
culture. Walker’s work has been exhibited throughout
North America, and is included in a number of private and
public collections, including The Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston and the Wittliff Collection of Southwestern &
Mexican Photography in San Marcos. He is the recipient
of the 2013 Clarence John Laughlin Award, and he
regularly teaches and lectures on his work. He earned an
MFA from Savannah College of Art & Design and a BFA
from Texas State University–San Marcos.
32. Peter Brown has two degrees from Stanford and
has taught photography in a variety of capacities at Rice
for many years. He has photographed the Great Plains
since the 1980s, and has published two books on the
region: On the Plains and West of Last Chance. He has
been the recipient of The Lange-Taylor Prize, The Alfred
Eisenstaedt Award, The Imogen Cunningham Award, The
Glasscock School Teaching Prize. His photographs are in
the collections of many museums including The Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston, Menil Collection, Museum of
Modern Art, NY, and the Los Angeles County Museum of
Art among many others. Brown is a founding member of
HCP and serves on the Advisory Boards of HCP, Houston
FotoFest and The Glasscock School. He is currently at
work on a book about Texas with the writer Joe Holley.
33. Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Tokyo in 1948 and
moved to New York in 1974 where he continues to live
and work. Central to his work is the idea that photography
is a time machine, a method of preserving and picturing
both memory and time. In references to his Seascapes
series, started in 1980, he has written, “Mystery of
mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the
sea. Everytime I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of
security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on
a voyage of seeing.” Recent solo exhibitions of his work
have been shown in Tokyo, Paris, Venice, New York and
Los Angeles.
34. Jefferson Hayman is an artist that works within
the themes of nostalgia, common symbols and memory.
From his training and environment Hayman has forged an
individual visual sensibility. The photographs themselves
are handcrafted silver gelatin and platinum prints that
seem historically timeless, captured with a delicacy of
tonality that harks back to the highest traditions of graphic
art. The works are then paired with antique or artist-made
frames which place each piece into the realm of unique
statements.
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31 WALKER PICKERING (Lincoln, NE)
32 PETER BROWN (Houston, TX)
Drum Major, (2013, printed 2014)
From the series Esprit de Corps
Inkjet print
Edition 1 of 10
16 x 20 inches
Courtesy of the artist
walkerpickering.com
Signed on verso in pencil
Retail Value $1,200
The Cake Palace, Tahoka, Texas, (1994, printed 2014)
From the series On the Plains
Inkjet print
Edition 14 of 25
18 x 22 inches
Courtesy of the artist, Harris Gallery (Houston, TX),
Stephen Clark Gallery (Dallas, TX), & PDNB Gallery
(Dallas, TX)
petertbrown.com harrisgalleryhouston.com artnet.com
pdnbgallery.com
Signed on recto in pen
Retail Value $1,250
33A HIROSHI SUGIMOTO (New York, NY)
33B HIROSHI SUGIMOTO (New York, NY)
Aegean Sea, Pillion, Mediterranean Sea, Cassis, and
South Pacific Ocean, 1991
From the series Time Exposed
9.5 x 12 inches each
Courtesy of an anonymous donor
sugimotohiroshi.com
Retail Value $4,500
Aegean Sea, Pillion, Mediterranean Sea, Cassis, and South
Pacific Ocean, 1991
From the series Time Exposed
9.5 x 12 inches each
Courtesy of an anonymous donor
sugimotohiroshi.com
Retail Value $4,500
33C HIROSHI SUGIMOTO (New York, NY)
34 JEFFERSON HAYMAN (New York, NY)
Aegean Sea, Pillion, Mediterranean Sea, Cassis,
and South Pacific Ocean, 1991
From the series Time Exposed
9.5 x 12 inches each
Courtesy of an anonymous donor
sugimotohiroshi.com
Retail Value $4,500
Chrysler building
Gelatin silver print
Edition 2 of 25
2.5 x 1.5 inches
Courtesy of Madeline Yale Preston in
memory of Marty Carden
jeffersonhayman.com
Signed on verso in pen
Retail Value $600
35. Harold Feinstein began his career in photography
in 1946 at the age of 15. By the time he was 19, Edward
Steichen had purchased his work for the permanent
collection of the Museum of Modern Art and exhibited
it frequently during his tenure there. He was a member
of the Photo League and became a prominent figure in
the vanguard of the early New York street photography
scene. In 1998, Feinstein broke new ground as one of
the first photographers to utilize a scanner as a camera
(now called scenography). In 2011, at the age of 80, he
was presented the Living Legend Award by the Griffin
Museum of Photography.
36. Vivian Maier was an American street photographer,
who was born in New York City and spent much
of her childhood in France. After returning to the
US, Maier worked for about forty years as a nanny,
mostly in Chicago. During those years, she took more
than 150,000 photographs, primarily of people and
architecture of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles,
during the 1950s and ‘60s although she traveled and
photographed worldwide. Maier’s photographs have been
exhibited in the USA, Europe, and Asia and introduced
in many articles throughout the world. Her life and work
have been the subject of books and documentary films.
37. Janet Russek’s series of portraits of dolls—pale
figures suspended in a black void—explored the darker
aspects of parenting and of human vulnerability. This
work brought Russek back to her childhood memories
and led to her series Memories, featuring photos
of objects from her parent’s generation. Alongside
her artistic work, Russek is also a private fine art
photography dealer in Santa Fe. She and her husband,
David Scheinbaum, founded Scheinbaum and Russek,
Ltd., in 1980. Her work is part of the permanent
collections of several museums, including the New
Mexico Museum, the Bibliotecque Nationale, Paris, and
the High Museum of Art.
38. Stephen Sheffield’s photographs depict both
every day and unusual events, all framed by his unique,
and occasionally dark, sense of humor. His masterful
storytelling, use of traditional film and non-traditional
techniques including alternative processes, mural
printing, and large-scale photo assemblage combine to
give his work a unique and cinematic mood. A native
of the Boston area,he obtained a BFA in painting and
photography from Cornell University. He received his
MFA in photography from the California College of the
Arts, in Oakland/San Francisco, where he was mentored
by, and assistant to, Larry Sultan and Jean Finley. He is
represented by Panopticon Gallery, Boston.
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35 HAROLD FEINSTEIN (Merrimac, MA)
Hangin’ Out, Sharing a Public Bench, NYC, 1948,
(1948, printed 2013)
From the series City Streets
Gelatin silver print
Edition 2 of 20
16 x 20 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Panopticon Gallery
(Boston, MA)
haroldfeinstein.com panopticongallery.com
Signed on recto in ink
Retail Value $2,400
36 VIVIAN MAIER (American 1926–2009)
Untitled, 2014
Gelatin silver print
Edition 2 of 15
12 x 12 inches
Courtesy of John Maloof
Signed on Photographer’s collections stamp
signed by John Maloof with date, print date,
and edition number in ink on verso
Retail Value $2,200
37 JANET RUSSEK (Santa Fe, NM)
38 STEPHEN SHEFFIELD (Boston, MA)
Folded Hands, (2008, printed 2008)
Gelatin silver print
Edition 3 of 10
17.9 x 13.9 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd.
(Santa Fe, NM)
photographydealers.com
Signed on recto in pencil
Retail Value $2,000
Ascent, 2010
Gelatin silver print
Edition 6 of 20
20 x 24 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Panopticon Gallery
(Boston, MA)
stephensheffield.com panopticon.com
Signed on verso in pencil
Retail Value $1,250
39. David Scheinbaum worked with the preeminent
photo historian Beaumont Newhall from 1978 until
Newhall’s death in 1993 and continues as co-executor of
his estate. His most recent publication, Hip Hop: Portraits
of An Urban Hymn, was released in November 2013
and was featured at The National Portrait Gallery of the
Smithsonian Institution and the Norton Museum of Art.
His current work is focused on the Lower East Side of
New York.
40. Keith Carter is an internationally-recognized
photographer and educator who holds the Walles Chair of
Art at Lamar University in Beaumont. He is the recipient
of the Texas Medal of Arts, the Lange-Taylor Prize from
the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University,
and the Regent’s Professor Award from the Texas State
University System. His work has been shown in over
100 solo exhibitions in 13 countries. He is the author
of 11 books. Recently he has been exploring historical
processes including wet plate collodion tintypes.
39 DAVID SCHEINBAUM (Santa Fe, NM)
40 KEITH CARTER (Beaumont, TX)
Erykah Badu, Albuquerque, NM, (2003, printed 2014)
Inkjet print
20.1 x 30 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd. (Santa
Fe, NM)
photographydealers.com
Signed on verso in pencil
Retail Value $3,500
Butterfly Collection, (2012, printed 2012)
Tintype
Edition 1 of 15
8 x 10 inches
Courtesy of the artist and McMurtrey Gallery
(Houston, TX)
keithcarterphotographs.com mcmurtreygallery.com
Signed on verso in marker
Retail Value $1,200
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41. Born in Paris in 1928 to Russian parents,
Elliot Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan, and then
immigrated to the US, via France, with his family in
1939. As a teenager living in Hollywood, he developed
an interest in photography and worked in a commercial
darkroom before experimenting with photography at
Los Angeles City College. In 1948 he moved to New
York and exchanged janitorial work for film classes
at the New School for Social Research.In 1953 Erwitt
joined Magnum Photos as a freelance photographer
and served as president of Magnum in the late
1960s. In the 1970s he produced several noted film
documentaries and 18 comedy films for HBO. Erwitt
became known for his benevolent irony and humanistic
sensibility traditional to the spirit of Magnum.
42. Texas-based photographer Shelley Calton’s second
book, Concealed: She’s Got a Gun, will be released in
spring of 2015. Most recently one of her portraits was
chosen for the Taylor Wessing Prize at the National
Portrait Gallery in London. Calton was named by Oxford
American in 2012 as one of 100 Under 100—The
New Superstars of Southern Art. She has studied with
many well-known photographers, including Keith Carter
and Debbie Fleming Caffery. She is a former HCP VicePresident, Auction Chair, and Board Member.
41 ELLIOT ERWITT (New York, NY)
42 SHELLEY CALTON (Houston, TX)
New York, 1974
Gelatin silver print
11.5 x 17.5 inches
Courtesy of an anonymous donor
elliotterwitt.com
Signed on recto in ink and verso in pencil
Retail Value $5,500
Gun Dogs, Arbuthnott, Scotland, (2014, printed 2014)
From the series The Shoot
Inkjet print
Edition 1 of 5
34 x 22.5 inches
Courtesy of the artist
shelleycalton.com
Signed on verso in pencil
Retail Value $1,400
43 KEN & LISA M. ROSENTHAL & ROBINSON (Tucson, AZ)
44 ELAINE LING (Ontario, Canada)
Untitled, (2014, printed 2014)
From the series Feathers
Cyanotype
Unique edition
5 x 3.4 inches each
Courtesy of the artists and Etherton Gallery (Chicago, IL)
lisamrobinson.com kenrosenthal.com ethertongallery.com
Signed on verso in pencil
Retail Value $1,200
Baobab, Tree of Generations #31, (2010, printed 2013)
Inkjet print
Edition 3 of 18
40 x 30 inches
Courtesy of the artist
elaineling.com
Signed on verso in pencil
Retail Value $3,500
45 BRADFORD WASHBURN (American 1970–2007)
46 JOHN A. CHAKERES (Columbus, OH)
Negative #5234 (taken from 11,000 feet)
Gelatin silver print
Unique edition
4 x 5 inches
Courtesy of the DeVito-Landry Collection (Boston, MA)
Signed on stamped on verso
Retail Value $1,000
La Paz—Concrete Wall—2011
From the series Structure
Inkjet print
Edition of 10
31.5 x 41.5 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Couturier Gallery
(Houston, TX)
johnchakeres.com catherinecouturier.com
Signed on recto in pencil
Retail Value $2,000
43. Ken Rosenthal received his MFA in photography from
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993. Since
2002 his work has been featured in more than 150 solo
and group exhibitions internationally. The first publication
of his work, Ken Rosenthal Photographs 2001–2009, was
released in 2011. The book was included on photo-eye’s
Best Books of 2011 list. Lisa M. Robinson’s first book,
Snowbound, was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2007. The
book was an Official Selection for the German Photo Book
Award, was selected as one of the year’s best books in
PDN’s Photography Annual and was distinguished by an
Honorable Mention at Photo España. She is a graduate of
Columbia University and received her MFA in Photography
from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She is
married to Ken Rosenthal.
44. Elaine Ling is an exuberant adventurer, traveler,
and photographer who is most at home backpacking
her view camera across the great deserts of the world
and sleeping under the stars. Born in Hong Kong, Ling
has lived in Canada since the age of 9. She received
her medical degree from the University of Toronto and
practices family medicine. Seeking the solitude of deserts
and abandoned architectures of ancient cultures, Ling
has explored the shifting equilibrium between nature and
the man-made across 4 continents. In 2009, her first
book Mongolia, Land of the Deer Stone, was published by
Lodima Press.
45. Bradford Washburn was an explorer, mountaineer,
photographer and cartographer, and pioneered the use
of aerial photography. He visited many wild regions of the
globe—including the Alps, Alaska, the Grand Canyon,
Mount Everest and was the first to reach its summit
twice. In a years-long project Washburn led a team that
took photographs during a series of crisscrossing flights
over and around the mountain. His striking black-andwhite photos, mostly of Alaskan peaks and glaciers, are
known for their wealth of informative detail and artistry.
Washburn founded the Boston Museum of Science,
serving as its director from 1939 to 1980, and recently
The Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering
Museum was named in his honor.
46. John A. Chakeres received his BFA from Ohio
University in 1977 in both photography and printmaking.
During that period he also studied with Ansel Adams
and later worked as an assistant to Adams. Chakeres’s
current photographs explore the concepts of formalism
and found objects in the context of photography. One
of the hallmarks of his images is the integration of the
process and materials of photography as part of the
content. His photographs are included in a number of
permanent collections including the Museum of Modern
Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography, and Tweed
Museum of Art.
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47. Growing up on Long Island, Mitch Dobrowner felt
lost in his late teens. Worried about his future direction
in life, his father gave him an old Argus camera. After
doing some research and seeing the images of Minor
White and Ansel Adams, Dobrowner quickly became
addicted to photography. He left home at 21, quit his
job, and set out to see the American Southwest for
himself. Today he creates images that evoke how he
sees our wonderful planet.
48. Using long exposures, ranging from 20 seconds
to 60 minutes, David Fokos has worked with the
camera’s unique ability to “average time” in order to
examine and understand the mechanisms of human
perception and to reconcile differing subjective and
objective views of the world. He believes that our sense
of experience is built up over time–a composite of many
short-term events–and that our impression of the world
is based upon our total experience. With this series
of images Fokos has used the camera as a scientific
instrument, in the way a biologist uses a microscope or
astronomer using a telescope, to reveal what is felt but
often unseen. He was born in Baltimore in 1960 and
received a BS from Cornell University.
47 MITCH DOBROWNER (Los Angeles, CA)
48 DAVID FOKOS (San Diego, CA)
Cloud and Rays near Benson, AZ (2013)
Inkjet Print
Edition 3 of 45
14 x 20 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Couturier Gallery
(Houston, TX)
mitchdobrowner.com catherinecouturier.com
Signed on recto in pencil
Retail Value $1,000
Nightwatch, Port Townsend, WA (2002, printed 2004)
Chromogenic print
13 x 13 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Couturier Gallery
(Houston, TX)
davidfokos.net catherinecouturier.com
Signed on recto in pencil
Retail Value $1,000
49. Giorgio Sommer was an Italian photographer of
German descent who received his first camera as a
gift from his father at the age of 16. He worked first in
Switzerland, and then opened a studio in Naples, Italy,
in 1857. Sommer worked in partnership with Edmond
Behles, a German photographer based in Rome, from
1860–1872. Sommer produced views, genre scenes,
and reproductions of works of art, especially of ancient
Greek and Roman statuary from the museums in
Naples and Rome. He also made photographic reports
on the results of the excavations at Pompeii for the
archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli.
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50. Bob Avakian and his wife Gail visited Martha’s
Vineyard for the summer in 1973 and it has been home
ever since. As his photographic vision has evolved,
he has been drawn to the natural landscape and an
exploration of night photography. He has been the
recipient of numerous awards and was included in
Photolucida’s 2013 Critical Mass Top 50 Photographers.
In the International Photo Awards Annual competition Bob
won 2nd place in the Night Photography category. He
won 1st place in Photo Nights Boston’s “Photorama”. His
work is in the collection of The Boston Athenaeum and
the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital’s permanent art collection.
49A GIORGIO SOMMER (Italian, 1834–1914)
49B GIORGIO SOMMER (Italian, 1834–1914)
Pompei, Napoli, 1860
Albumen print
8 x 10 inches
Courtesy of Halstead Gallery (Chicago, IL)
halstedgallery.com
Signed on recto
Retail Value $5,000
Pompei (Particre dei soldati), 1860
Albumen print
8 x 10 inches
Courtesy of Halstead Gallery (Chicago, IL)
halstedgallery.com
Signed on recto
Retail Value $5,000
50 BOB AVAKIAN (Edgartown, MA)
51 DEBORAH BAY (Houston, TX)
My Backyard, (2013, printed 2014)
Inkjet print
Edition AP #1
21 x 21 inches
Courtesy of the artist
bobavakianphotography.com
Signed on recto in ink
Retail Value $1,250
Five-seveN I, (2012, printed 2014)
From the series The Big Bang
Inkjet print
Edition 2 of 10
18 x 24 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Wall Space Gallery
(Houston, TX)
deborahbay.com wall-spacegallery.com
Signed on verso in pencil
Retail Value $1,200
51. Deborah Bay specializes in tabletop macro
photography, creating enigmatic in-camera images. She
has exhibited at Dallas Contemporary, Griffin Museum
of Photography, New York Hall of Science and Southeast
Museum of Photography, among other venues. Her
work is in the collection of The Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, and Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz.
The British Journal of Photography has featured her
work on its cover, and her images also have appeared in
Popular Photography, BBC Focus, Welt der Wunder and
Smithsonian.com. In 2012 she was a Photolucida/Critical
Mass Top 50. She currently serves on HCP’s Board of
Trustees as Treasurer.
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52. With his extensive background in painting, photography,
and architecture, Jeffrey Becom’s series Painted Walls
combines all three. Becom has come to find his inspiration
in ever-more remote places populated by indigenous,
ritual-bound people whose architectural color springs
organically from their history, geography, and faith.
Becom is also a writer, traveler, designer and visual
anthropologist. With his partner, Sally Aberg, he has
authored two award-winning books, Mediterranean Color
and Maya Color: The Painted Villages of Mesoamerica. He
is the subject of a PBS/BBC documentary titled For the
Colors, A Journey through Italy.
53. Darin Boville was born in northern Ohio, dropped out of
high school, and received a Master’s degree in public policy
from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. His work
was recently acquired by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
His work has been exhibited most recently at the Williamson
Gallery at the Art Center College of Design and has
appeared in a variety of publications including PhotoArts,
DMQ Quarterly, ZeroZine and Shots. He now lives in
Montara, on the California coast near San Francisco.
54. Native Texan photographer Marty Carden received
an Associate of Arts degree from Wharton County
College, a BS from the University of Houston, and law
degree from South Texas College of Law. He continued
his photographic studies at Rice University. Carden’s
work can be found in numerous private and corporate
collections, as well as in the permanent collections of
Fort Bend County Historical Museum and The Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston.
55. Gabriella Demczuk was born in Stockholm, Sweden
to an American father and a Lebanese-Croatian mother.
She was raised in Luxembourg and studied fine arts
and journalism at George Washington University and
photography at The Parsons School of Art and Design in
Paris. After graduation, she spent a year interning for the
New York Times’ D.C. bureau, photographing Washington
politics and traveling with President Obama. While
Gabriella’s editorial work explores the nation’s polarized
political arena, her personal work focuses on home and
family, a concept she struggles to connect to due to her
many competing identities and her family roots that touch
so many places around the world.
56. Michael Donnor is a fine art photographer, consultant,
and educator. After graduating from the University at
Buffalo where he studied art and photography, he began
teaching alongside the world’s premier photographers
at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. He then
moved on with personal endeavors, including consulting
photographers in San Francisco, Santa Fe, and Chapel Hill.
Donnor returned to his farmhouse in the countryside where
he pursues his art and teaching. His work is exhibited
across the US and collected internationally.
52 JEFFREY BECOM (Pacific Grove, CA)
53 DARIN BOVILLE (Montara, CA)
Street Guardian (Varnasi, Uttar Pradesh, India), 2008
Archival Pigment Ink Print
Edition 4 of 25
14 X 20 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Couturier Gallery
(Houston, TX)
jeffreybecom.com catherinecouturier.com
Signed on recto in pencil
Retail Value $1,500
Stieglitz Nebulae #22, (2010, printed 2013)
From the series Stieglitz Nebulae
Inkjet print
14 x 20 inches
Courtesy of the artist
darinboville.com
Signed on verso in pencil
Retail Value $1,000
54 MARTY CARDEN (American 1954–2014)
55 GABRIELLA DEMCZUK (Washington, D.C.)
Untitled, 2003
From the series Equestrian Landscapes
14 x 19.1 inches
Courtesy of Joe Aker & Aker Imaging (Houston, TX)
martycardenphotographs.com
Signed on recto in pencil
Retail Value $900
The Lonliest Job in the World, #44, (2014, printed 2014)
Inkjet print
Edition 1 of 25
7.3 x 11 inches
Courtesy of the artist and The New York Times
gabriellademczuk.com
Signed on recto in pencil
Retail Value $500
56 MICHAEL DONNOR (Somerville, MA)
57 BRIAN FINKE (Brooklyn, NY)
Mecurial Mirror, (2014, printed 2014)
From the series Notes on a Paper Universe
Gelatin silver print
Edition 2 of 10
15 x 15 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Panopticon Gallery
(Boston, MA)
michaeldonnor.com panopticongallery.com
Signed on verso in ink
Retail Value $1,000
U.S. Marshals, (2014, printed 2014)
Inket print
Edition 1 of 4
9.5 x 9.5 inches
Courtesy of the artist and ClampArt (New York, NY)
brianfinke.com clampart.com
Signed on verso in pen
Retail Value $1,000
57. Brian Finke graduated from the School of Visual
Arts in New York in 1998 with a BFA in photography.
U.S. Marshals, the much-anticipated fourth monograph
from Finke was released in November 2014 by
powerHouse Books. Shot over the course of 4 years,
Finke captures the culture, practices and procedures
of the US’s oldest law enforcement agency, heightened
by access that is both unprecedented and telling. Finke
began documenting in 2010 after re-connecting with a
childhood friend, Deputy U.S. Marshal, Cameron Welch.
In 2004, Finke was one of twelve artists nominated for
the International Center for Photography’s annual Infinity
Award and he won a prestigious New York Foundation for
the Arts Fellowship.
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58. Sam Gainer began his journey into photography
when he was a college student playing professional piano
at The Barn in Austin. What began as a hobby has carried
him to over 100 countries and thousands of locations,
both renowned and obscure. A man of diverse talents,
he is a magician, furniture builder and photographer
who holds both a CPA certificate and a law degree. Sam
is senior partner of Gainer, Donnelly & Desroches, one
of Houston’s top three CPA firms. In his spare time he
creates complex woodwork designs in flooring, furniture
and accessories from rare woods and materials. He lives
and works in Houston.
59. Sophie Gamand is a French fine-art photographer
living and working in New York. Since 2010, her work
has focused on dogs and man’s relationship with them.
In 2014, Sophie gained international recognition and
won prestigious awards for her Wet Dog series. She is
represented by 28 Matignon Gallery in Paris. Her first
book is scheduled for release in the fall 2015. An animal
activist, Sophie also donates photography time and
expertise to multiple animal shelters.
60. Clyde Heppner largely focuses on depicting the
landscape and is attracted to subject matter that has
historical depth. His training in Psychology and a lifetime
interest in Eastern art greatly influence how he configures
the environment for the viewer. Although much of his
photographic knowledge is self-taught, he furthered
his education by studying under known photographers.
Heppner began showing his work in 2011 and has been
included in exhibitions at venues such as the Center for
Fine Art Photography and the San Francisco International
Exhibition. His recent portfolio, The Ancients’ Views, was
featured in a 2014 solo exhibit at the Griffin Museum of
Photography.
61. Paul Hester received an MFA from the Rhode Island
School of Design, where he studied with Harry Callahan,
Aaron Siskind, Lisette Model, Minor White, Charles
Harbutt, Bert Beavers, Richard Lebowitz, and Sally Stein.
He divides his time between Fayetteville and Houston;
between teaching and taking pictures; between looking
and thinking; between now and then; between here
and there. His photographs reside in the Bibliotheque
Nationale in Paris, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam,
The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Wooster
Art Museum in Massachusetts, the National Museum
of American Art in Washington DC, the Amon Carter
Museum in Fort Worth, and in the homes of passionate
collectors everywhere. His photographs of architecture
have appeared in several books and many magazines. He
currently teaches in the Department of Visual & Dramatic
Arts at Rice University.
62. Sarah Sudhoff is a photographer, educator, former
photo editor for Texas Monthly and Time magazines, and
was most recently hired as HCP’s Executive Director. She
established and served on the board of the Austin Center
for Photography and Photohive. In 2013 she received an
artist grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
and was an artist-in-residence at Artpace, San Antonio in
2012. Her work interweaves themes of gender, science
and personal experience through photographs both
staged and found. She holds a MFA from Parsons the
New School for Design, NY, and a BJ from The University
of Texas at Austin.
63. Stefan De Jaeger has been working with Polaroid
images since the 1970s, using multiple snapshots to
create an overall image, similar to the style of artist David
Hockney. His technique is to photograph the subject in
fragments, from different perspectives and over a period
of time to build each portrait piece by piece. The Belgian
artist was born in Brussels in 1957 and had a major
exhibition of his portraits at The Arizona State University
Art Museum in 2007.
58 SAM GAINER (Houston, TX)
59 SOPHIE GAMAND (Brooklyn, NY)
Winter Castle, 2014
Chromogenic print
36 x 28 inches
Courtesy of the artist
samgainerphotography.com
Retail Value $ 350
Nicole, (2013, printed 2014)
From the series Wet Dog
Chromogenic print
Edition 1 of 5 (5+2 EA)
20 x 20 inches
Courtesy of the artist
sophiegamand.com
Signed on verso in marker
Retail Value $1,500
60 CLYDE HEPPNER (Liberty, MO)
61 PAUL HESTER (Fayetteville, TX)
Sneaking a View, (2013, printed 2014)
From the series The Ancients’ Views Portfolio
Inkjet print
Edition of 5
18 x 9 inches
Accompanied by a signed copy of The Ancients’ Views by
Clyde Heppner, published by Perceptive Shutter Inc.
Courtesy of the artist
clydeheppner.com
Signed on recto in pencil
Retail Value $700
Georgio Party Supply, (2014, printed 2014)
Archival pigment print
12 x 18 inches
Courtesy of the artists
photogypsies.com
Signed on verso in marker
Retail Value $750
62 SARAH SUDHOFF (Houston, TX)
63 STEFAN DE JAEGER (Brussels, Belgium)
Sale, 2005
From the series Repository
Chromogenic print
30 x 40 inches
Courtesy of the artist and French & Michigan
(San Antonio, TX)
sarahsudhoff.com frenchandmichigan.com
Retail Value $2,000
Tulips, 1982
From the series Fleurs Coupees
Dye diffusion prints
20.8 x 20.8 inches
Courtesy of Fred Baldwin and Wendy Watriss
Retail Value $900
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64. Mark Johnson is a Houston-based commercial
photographer specializing in architecture, corporate
portraits, and landscapes. A native New Yorker, he has
been photographing since the 1970s. He is a professional
member of the American Society of Media Photographers
and an affiliate member of the Houston Chapter of the
American Institute of Architects. His work can be found in
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and in corporate and
private collections.
65. Priscilla Kanady received a BS from the University of
California, Davis, in Textile Science and Design, and a BFA
in photography from the Academy of Art University, San
Francisco. Following several years doing studio work for
portraiture and advertising, she went on to pursue other
avenues in photography. Kanady’s work has been shown
in group exhibitions at Rayko Gallery, San Francisco, the
Magdalena show at PhotoNola, and New York Center for
Photographic Art. Kanady has recently completed a black/
white photo essay, Parallel Perspectives, which analyzes
similarities between South Africa and the Burning Man
festival in Nevada.
66. Hajime Kimura is a Japanese photographer who
was raised in China prefecture, just outside Tokyo. After
studying architecture and anthropology, he began his
photographic career in 2006. His first long-term project,
KODAMA (2012), focuses on an ancient Japanese tribe in
Nigata prefecture over a five year period and was award
first place at IPA Photobook Asia Award 2013, Singapore.
Kimura’s work reflects his response from engaging with
his subject, with the aims to reconstruct the interaction,
thus bringing understanding to the viewer.
64 MARK JOHNSON (Houston, TX)
Downtown View, (1975, printed 2014)
Inkjet print
12 x 15.2 inches
Courtesy of the artist
photoarchitect.com
Signed on recto in pen
Retail Value $750
65 PRISCILLA KANADY (The Woodlands, TX)
Untitled, (2012, printed 2014)
From the series Sketched in Winter’s Light
Inkjet print
Edition 3 of 25
14 x 9.5 inches
Courtesy of the artist
priscillakanady.com
Signed on verso in pencil
Retail Value $250
67. Kent Krugh is a photographer and physicist based in
Cincinnati. He has received numerous awards in national
and international print and portfolio competitions and
was a Photolucida 2012 and 2014 Critical Mass Finalist.
His work has been exhibited in numerous national
and international group and solo venues, including a
solo exhibition of Inside the Gate at Blue Sky Gallery in
Portland. Krugh’s work can be found in numerous private
collections and museums including the Portland Art
Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art. This work
was chosen for HCP’s 32nd Annual Juried Membership
Exhibition.
68. Jenna Martin is a fine art and underwater
photographer. After acquiring her Master’s degree
in Psychiatric Rehabilitation, she made a drastic
career change into the field of photography and she
has been producing surreal images ever since. She
is now internationally published with work shown at
various galleries across the country. She also teaches
photography, and speaks on the importance of art
programs in schools. When she’s not taking pictures,
she’s usually taking in stray animals, browsing the price
of plane tickets to faraway destinations and participating
in general, all-around rule breaking.
66 HAJIME KIMURA (Tokyo, Japan)
67 KENT KRUGH (Fairfield, OH)
Tracks, (2012, printed 2014)
Inkjet print
11 x 16 inches
Courtesy of the artist
hajimekimura.net
Retail Value $650
Higher Ground Cedar, (2011, printed 2014)
From the series Inside the Gate
Inkjet print
Edition 9 of 15
13.3 x 20 inches
Courtesy of the artist
kentkrugh.com
Signed on verso in pencil
Retail Value $550
68 JENNA MARTIN (Billings, MT)
69 APRIL RAPIER (Austin, TX)
Serenade For The Lost, (2013, printed 2014)
From the series To Dream a Dream
Inkjet print
Edition 1 of 7
24 x 36 inches
Courtesy of the artist
jennamartinphotography.com
Signed on verso in pen
Retail Value $1,200
Untitled, 1994
Chromogenic print
16 x 20 inches
Courtesy of Daphne Scarborough
Signed on recto in ink
Retail Value $500
69. Upon receiving her MFA in Photography from the
Rhode Island School of Design in 1979, April Rapier
embarked on an adventurous, if non-conventional,
career. Rather than choose one discipline, it made more
sense to her to combine sources of inspiration, including
photography, writing, music and teaching, each informing
the other. She currently is a singer/songwriter with the
band Sugar Bayou. A founding member of HCP, she
briefly served as its Executive Director in 1987.
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70. Mahesh Shantaram quit corporate life in Washington,
DC, went to Paris to study photography, and started his
career as a photographer in 2006 in Bangalore, India, the
city where he was born and spent his young-adult years.
Shantaram’s interest lies in using personal and subjective
documentary photography to study contemporary Indian
society. In the guise of a wedding photographer, he travels
all over India, finding inspiration for his personal projects.
Shantaram’s most well-known work is Matrimania, a
fictional story about Indian society seen through the prism
of its wedding culture.
71. S. Gayle Stevens has worked in antiquarian
photographic processes for over fifteen years. Her
chosen medium is wet plate collodion for its fluidity
and individuality. She received an MFA from the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. Named one of
the Critical Mass Top 50 Photographers for 2010, she
received second place in the Lens Culture International
Exposure Awards in 2011. Stevens’ work is widely
collected and is part of the permanent collections of the
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans Museum
of Art, Center for Fine Art Photography and University of
New Mexico Art Museum. A member of the Posse photo
collective, she divides her time shooting in Pass Christian,
MS and Downers Grove, IL, where she resides. Stevens is
represented in Houston by Catherine Couturier Gallery.
70 MAHESH SHANTARAM (Bangalore, India)
BJP Convention, Thiruvananthapuram, KL, 2014,
(2014, printed 2014)
From the series The Last Days of Manmohan
Inkjet print
Open edition
12 x 18 inches
Courtesy of the artist
thecontrarian.in
Signed on verso in pen
Retail Value $600
71A S. GAYLE STEVENS (Downers Grove, IL)
Fall
From the series Unique
Tintype
Unique edition
5 x 5 inches each
Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Couturier Gallery
(Houston, TX)
sgaylestevens.com catherinecouturier.com
Signed on verso in pen
Retail Value $350
72. Contemplative, interpretive, and uniquely expressed,
Svjetlana Tepavcevic’s work explores her surroundings
through detailed and long-term observation. Though she
has resided in the US for over 20 years, she witnessed
the bloody breakup of her native Yugoslavia (now Bosnia
and Herzegovina) and lived through the siege of her
hometown of Sarajevo, the longest siege of a European
city in modern history. The Sea Inside is a series of
abstract black-and-white images exploring the energy,
complexity and individuality of ocean waves. More than
simply being photographic representations, the images
in this series are unique and subjective interpretations,
imbued with the artist’s emotional connection to the sea.
73. For the series Means of Reproduction, Tepavcevic
photographed seeds and seed pods collected by the
artist, exploring “the macro embodied within the micro.”
Each subject is enlarged many times without regard for
its actual size relative to others and floats in a minimalist
color field which becomes an illusion of an infinite space.
She received a BA from UCLA and MA from the University
of Pennsylvania. Her prints are in the collections of
corporate institutions, private collectors and museums,
including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; High
Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the Harry Ransom Center at
The University of Texas at Austin.
71B S. GAYLE STEVENS (Downers Grove, IL)
72 SVJETLANA TEPAVCEVIC (Washington, DC)
Leaf
From the series Unique
Ambrotype
Unique edition
5 x 5 inches each
Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Couturier Gallery
(Houston, TX)
sgaylestevens.com catherinecouturier.com
Signed on verso in pen
Retail Value $350
The Sea Inside no. 181, 2014
From the series The Sea Inside
Inkjet print
Edition 4 of 15
12 x 18 inches
Courtesy of the artist
svjetlanat.com photoeye.com
Signed on verso in pencil and verso on label in ink
Retail Value $950
74. Sara Terry is an award-winning filmmaker,
documentary photographer, and journalist. A 2012
Guggenheim Fellow in Photography, she is best known
for her work covering post-conflict stories, but currently
is working on film and TV sets. Terry is the founder and
artistic director of “The Aftermath Project,” a grantmaking, educational non-profit organization founded on
the premise that “War is Only Half the Story.” Currently,
she teaches at the Community Storytelling Project,
Venice Arts.
73 SVJETLANA TEPAVCEVIC (Washington, DC)
74 SARA TERRY (Los Angeles, CA)
Means of Reproduction no. 1191, KOELREUTERIA
ELEGANS, Chinese rain tree, (2014)
From the series Means of Reproduction
Inkjet print
Edition 5 of 15
18 x 17 inches
Courtesy of the artist
svjetlanat.com photoeye.com
Signed on verso in pencil and verso on label in ink
Retail Value $1,200
Allergic to Homework, 2010
From the series The T-Shirt Project: Chapter One, Sierra
Leone
Inkjet print
10.5 x 7 inches
Courtesy of Joan Morgenstern
saraterry.com
Retail Value $300
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62 SARAH SUDHOFF (Houston, TX)
Sale, 2005
From the series Repository
Chromogenic print
30 x 40 inches
Courtesy of the artist and French & Michigan
sarahsudhoff.com frenchandmichigan.com
Retail Value $2,000
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS OF THE 2015 PRINT AUCTION
Mohammed Al Shammarey (Lot 9, Page 2)
Hajime Kimura (Lot 66, Page 12)
Renate Aller (Lot 15, Page 3)
Kent Krugh (Lot 67, Page 12)
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Lot 24, Page 4)
Ferit Kuyas (Lot 19, Page 4)
Bob Avakian (Lot 50, Page 9)
Laurie Lambrecht (Lot 27, Page 5)
Cara Barer (Lot 8, Page 2)
Russell Werner Lee (Lot 30, Page 5)
Deborah Bay (Lot 51, Page 9)
Isa Leshko (Lot 21, Page 4)
Jeffrey Becom (Lot 53, Page 10)
Elaine Ling (Lot 44, Page 8)
Amy Blakemore (Lot 20, Page 4)
Adam Magyar (Lot 25, Page 5)
Gay Block (Lot 16, Page 3)
Vivian Maier (Lot 36, Page 7)
Darin Boville (Lot 53, Page 10)
Luis Mallo (Lot 12, Page 2)
Kate Breakey (Lot 1, Page 1)
Stephen Mallon (Lot 5, Page 1)
Peter Brown (Lot 32, Page 6)
Jenna Martin (Lot 68, Page 12)
Shelley Calton (Lot 42, Page 8)
Osamu James Nakagawa (Lot 28, Page 5)
Marty Carden (Lot 54, Page 10)
Walker Pickering (Lot 31, Page 6)
Keith Carter (Lot 40, Page 7)
Smiley Pool (Lot 22, Page 4)
John A. Chakeres (Lot 46, Page 8)
April Rapier (Lot 69, Page 12)
Stefan De Jaeger (Lot 63, Page 11)
Ken Rosenthal and Lisa M. Robinson (Lot 43, Page 8)
Gabriella Demczuk (Lot 55, Page 10)
Janet Russek (Lot 37, Page 7)
Maitha Bin Demithan (Lot 18, Page 3)
David Scheinbaum (Lot 39, Page 7)
Mitch Dobrowner (Lot 47, Page 9)
Jennifer Schlesinger (Lot 2, Page 1)
Michael Donner (Lot 56, Page 10)
Bastienne Schmidt (Lot 3, Page 1)
Elliot Erwitt (Lot 41, Page 8)
Mahesh Shantaram (Lot 70, Page 13)
Harold Feinstein (Lot 35, Page 7)
Stephen Sheffield (Lot 38, Page 7)
Adrián Fernández Milanés (Lot 7, Page 2)
G. Sommer (Lot 49, Page 9)
Leslie Field (Lot 6, Page 1)
S. Gayle Stevens (Lot 71, Page 13)
Brian Finke (Lot 57, Page 10)
Sarah Sudhoff (Lot 62, Page 11)
David Fokos (Lot 48, Page 9)
Hiroshi Sugimoto (Lot 33, Page 6)
Sam Gainer (Lot 58, Page 11)
Svjetlana Tepavcevic (Lots 72 & 73, Page 13)
Sophie Gamand (Lot 59, Page 11)
Sara Terry (Lot 74, Page 13)
Lydia Goldblatt (Lot 14, Page 3)
Brandon Thibodeaux (Lot 4, Page 1)
Torrie Groening (Lot 11, Page 2)
Richard Tuschman (Lot 17, Page 3)
Nermine Hamman (Lot 29, Page 5)
Lou Vest (Lot 26, Page 5)
Jefferson Hayman (Lot 34, Page 6)
Bradford Washburn (Lot 45, Page 8)
Clyde Heppner (Lot 60, Page 11)
Brett Weston (Lot 23, Page 4)
Paul Hester (Lot 61, Page 11)
Geoff Winningham (Lot 10, Page 2)
Mark Johnson (Lot 64, Page 12)
David Wolf (Lot 13, Page 3)
Priscilla Kanady (Lot 65, Page 12)
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MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO (1902–2002)
Paisaje inventado [Invented Landscape], (1972, printed 1974)
From the series Portfolio of Fifteen Photographs
Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches
Edition 25 of 75
Courtesy of Joe Aker & Aker Imaging (Houston, TX)
Signed on recto in pencil
Retail Value $5,000
Houston Center for Photography
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