W.M. Hunt is a well-known champion of photography: a collector, curator and consultant. His show “Hunt’s Three-Ring Circus: American Groups Before 1950” is on view at the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery through the end of the year.
Since its inception, the medium of color photography has developed and expanded rapidly and with it, the market for collecting color photography continues to evolve. From the perspective of collectors, dealers and curators, this panel examines the market – discussing what is being collected, who is collecting, where collectors find new work and how color photography is valued.
Presenters: W.M. Hunt Nathan Benn Emily Bierman
Moderators: Kristina Feliciano
Location: Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
Since its inception, the medium of color photography has developed and expanded rapidly and with it, the market for collecting color photography continues to evolve. From the perspective of collectors, dealers and curators, this panel examines the market – discussing what is being collected, who is collecting, where collectors find new work and how color photography is valued.
W.M. Hunt is a well-known champion of photography: a collector, curator and consultant. His show “Hunt’s Three-Ring Circus: American Groups Before 1950” is on view at the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery through the end of the year.
Nathan Benn was born in Miami, Florida, and graduated from the University of Miami in 1972. Immediately thereafter he joined the photographic staff of National Geographic, where he remained for 20 years. In 1992 Nathan founded PNI, the world’s first online stock photography portal, which Eastman Kodak acquired in 1998. He was the Director of Magnum Photos, Inc., from 2000–2002. Over the past ten years he revisited and edited his archive, resulting in “Kodachrome Memory: American Pictures 1972-1990,” his first monograph, published by PowerHouse Books in 2013. He is a Trustee Emeritus at the George Eastman House Museum and lives with his wife, a fine arts photographer, and son in Brooklyn.
Emily Bierman joined Sotheby’s Photographs department in 2007. Her broad range of activity within the department includes business generation, professional writing, estimating and cataloguing photographs to be offered at auction and all aspects of catalogue production, as well as coordinating insurance appraisals. Ms. Bierman has been directly involved with the department’s numerous important single-owner collections, including Photographs from the Collection of Nancy Richardson, The Quillan Collection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Photographs, Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, and most recently, the record-shattering sale of A Show of Hands: Photographs from the Collection of Henry Buhl. Ms. Bierman is a graduate of Middlebury College, Vermont, from which she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in the History of Art and Architecture (Honors) and in Film and Media Cultures.
Kristina Feliciano is the creative director of Stockland Martel, a New York–based agency representing photographers and stylists. Her job requires being a brand journalist, ideas person, strategist, and creative decision-maker all in one. She is also an artist who works in collage and photography for her own pleasure, and genuinely admires the photographers who put themselves out there in pursuit of a career doing what they love.
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