The First New York International Photographic Art Exposition

I'm not sure what to make of this. The Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles (?!) has organized the First New York International Photographic Art Exhibition, or Photo New York for short, which starts on Thursday and extends through the weekend. How this will be better or different from the AIPAD show held each February, I'm not sure. I looked down the list of galleries showing and recognized only one or two. Certainly, my mental gallery catalog is limited, but I would expect to see one or more high profile galleries in the list.

Nonetheless, Larry Fink and Joel-Peter Witkin will be speaking and there will be what appears to be an interesting panel discussion about the development of the photography book. At first I thought this was a weak discussion topic until I realized that books are the medium through which the majority of us experience most art photography and always have been.

Witkin's photo on the Web site is ridiculously self-serious.

The First New York International Photographic Art Exposition
October 14 –17, 2004
Metropolitan Galleries
125 W. 18th Street (btwn 6th and 7th)

A special preview of photo new york 2004 will be held at the Lyons Wier Gallery at 511 W. 25th Street #205, through October 30