Come out and support the New Orleans Photo Alliance at its inaugural fundraiser tonight!
The Big Top
1638 Clio St.
New Orleans, LA 70130
7-10 pmLive Auction begins at 9
Music by
Cassandra Faulconer and The GroovemastersFood by
NOLA Bean and
P.F. Cheng's$2 Rum Drink Specials courtesy of
New Orleans Rum mojitos * partly cloudys * cuba libresTickets start at $20 at the door.
Live Auction ItemsJudy Cooper (Popular Ladies, 19x17 pigment print, $750)
Steven Forster (New Orleans Jazz Fest, 1977, 20x24 inkjet print, $750)
David Halliday (portrait of Frances 6x6 toned silver print, $600)
Herman Leonard (Dexter Gordon, 11x14 Silver Print, open edition, $1400)
Louviere + Vanessa (Hover, 19x22 archival inkjet print $700)
David Rae Morris (Kermit Ruffins at Vaughn's - 11x14 color print $250)
Samuel Portera (city park big oak - silver print)
Victoria Ryan (16x20 toned and glazed silver print)
Josephine Sacabo (The Dreamer, 20x24 toned silver print, ed 10/25 $1500)
Jennifer Shaw (Curly Vine 16x20 toned silver print ed. 1/25 $800)
Michel Varisco (Hairy Haystack toned silver print ed 4/25 $950)
Lori Waselchuk (Causeway, 2006 - 16x31" inkjet print)
Rare Books
1. Sometime in NYC, by Bob Gruen and Yoko Ono, retail $ 750
SIGNED by Yoko
2. 50 Years of Portraits, Peter Beard, SIGNED, FOOTPRINTED,
from Special Millenium Edition. (Year 2000), retail $ 1500
3. Japan, boxed edition, Michael Kenna, retail $ 375
Silent Auction Items -
bidding ends at 9:45Leslie Addison (mary statue 11x11 inkjet print )
Renee Allie (Barge 10x10 toned silver print)
Lee Area ( 4x5 print retail $400)
Jenny Bagert (11x14 silver print)
Thom Bennett (Euterpe, 11x14 toned silver print)
Frances Billes (Open Doors, Aloha, LA - toned silver print)
Judi Bottoni (Celebration, 8x10 color photograph)
Jackie Brenner
Nathalie Campeau (Dixie Building, 16x20" toned silver print)
Bob Compton (Captured Light, 1996, LVT print retail $300)
Will Crocker
Ze Da Luz
Michael Fedor (All On A Mardi Gras Day - 8 X 12 carbon inkjet print)
Tina Freeman
Maja Z. Georgiou (untitled, 8x10 toned silver print $250)
Laura Kilcer (Twenty One Years)
R Allan Kramer (Jazz Festin' 16x20" inkjet print)
Bryce Lankard (11x14 silver print retail $300)
George Long (Ruthie the Duck Lady- color photograph retail $295)
Celeste Marshall (Reighstag 10x10 archival pigment print ed.1/10 $300)
Wallace Merritt
Greg Miles
Owen Murphy
Leslie Parr (Skull and Bones Man, 16x20 color photograph)
Rita Posselt (Red Mardi Gras Indian, 2004 5x7 color photograph $75)
Samuel Portera (Oak 1, City Park, 6x13" silver print)
Susan Prevost
David Rodrigue
Natasha Sanchez
Mark Sindler
Zack Smith (11x14 Bromoil Print $450)
George Yerger (11x11 inkjet print $500)
Donn Young (Danny Barker 11x14 inkjet print $1500)
Books
1. Herman Leonard , out of print, Jazz Memories, retail $ 200
2. Rock and Roll Heroes by David Bailey, out of print retail $ 150
3. New Orleans, The World's Fair, By JMP retail, $ 50, out of print
4. Une Femme Habitee, Josephine Sacabo, out of print retail, $ 125
$1 Raffle Items$50 Dirty Coast Gift Certificate
U.P. Voodoo Ornament w/$10 Mojo Cafe Gift Certificate
Vintage Pitcher from Neophobia
Two Sprouts Stationary
Case of White Wine from The Wine Seller
$50 Framing Certificate from The Darkroom
Haircut at Spa Isbell w/ w/$10 Mojo Cafe Gift Certificate
Bamboo and Vintage Crystal Necklace by Norflleet Designs
Hampton Inn & Suites: Two Night Stay plus Wine
Holga Camera w/ ProPack of 120 film
Bath Junkie Gift Certificate w/$10 Mojo Cafe Gift Certificate
Cafe Degas Gift Certificate
On Photography...From the J. Paul Getty Museum:
Photography is our most significant link to the art of the 20th century.- Weston Naef, photography curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum:
The days when it was necessary to defend photographs as works of art
are long past. "Audiences not only accept photography, but devour it."-Christie’s contemporary-art specialist Andrew Massad:
Many contemporary-art buyers are initially attracted to these photos
because of their conceptual underpinnings. And some, adds Greenberg,
have gone on to develop an interest in what preceded them, endowing
the traditional market with new buoyancy. For their part, vintage-
photo collectors are starting to become more conversant in cutting-
edge work.-Peter Galassi, chief photography curator at the Museum of Modern Art:
"It is the ’Golden Age of Acquisition. Now you can still find
extraordinarily high quality, but in another generation, that won’t
be the case."-Museum of Fine Arts, Houston photography curator Anne Wilkes Tucker:
"When I first started, I could pick any work, go look for it, and get
it. That’s not true anymore," She notes, for instance, that in 1983
the museum was able to buy Robert Frank’s seminal 1950s work, "The
Americans," for $200,000. "Now 5 of the 84 pictures in the
portfolio," she says, "are worth that amount."Peter MacGill of New York’s Pace/MacGill Gallery:
"It is the visual language of our time."You too can join the movement.
Come to the the Big Top tonight and be a part of art history.
New Orleans photographer-in-exile Bob Compton returns to the city for jazzfest with a show of his photographs of New Orleans music and cultural icons at One Restaurant. The show will hang through jazzfest, with an opening event on Thursday, May 3, from 5-8 pm. The artist, now living in Santa Fe, will be there for a meet and greet at that time.
