Transmission 15-2015 Aipad Week Uploaded at 3.15 pm Monday 13th April 2015 Studios Robespierre From April 16 to April 19, the Aipad Photography Show New York, the annual fair dedicated to photography and held by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, will return to the Park Avenue Armory for its 35th edition. The Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy finalized a 99-year lease with the state and assumed control of the landmarked 1879 armory, after receiving final approval from the offices of the state comptroller and attorney general. The dingy, dark brick building is now the site of several prominent arts and antiques shows. It also serves as a homeless shelter for women. A veterans group that has long occupied parts of the armory and has used the building as a gathering place, the Seventh Regiment Veterans, have resisted the state's plan to turn over the building to the Conservancy, preferring that they be named the building's permanent stewards. The veterans have met with a series of defeats in court, and have recently concentrated on delaying the project by instigating community opposition. n°125 Contents of Transmission 15-2015 : Seven silver and paper prints A Vincent Van Gogh portrait Nicephore cahier de photographies now online Aipad Fashionable Week (advertizing) Two covers you have missed
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Transmission
15-2015
Aipad Week
Uploaded at 3.15 pm Monday 13th April 2015
Studios Robespierre
From April 16 to April 19, the Aipad Photography Show New York, theannual fair dedicated to photography and held by the Association ofInternational Photography Art Dealers, will return to the Park Avenue Armoryfor its 35th edition.
The Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy finalized a 99-year lease withthe state and assumed control of the landmarked 1879 armory, afterreceiving final approval from the offices of the state comptroller and attorneygeneral. The dingy, dark brick building is now the site of several prominentarts and antiques shows. It also serves as a homeless shelter for women.
A veterans group that has long occupied parts of the armory and hasused the building as a gathering place, the Seventh Regiment Veterans, haveresisted the state's plan to turn over the building to the Conservancy,preferring that they be named the building's permanent stewards. Theveterans have met with a series of defeats in court, and have recentlyconcentrated on delaying the project by instigating community opposition.
n°125
Contents of Transmission 15-2015 :
Seven silver and paper prints
A Vincent Van Gogh portrait
Nicephore cahier de photographies now online
Aipad Fashionable Week (advertizing)
Two covers you have missed
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Antoine Claudet (1797-1867) Stereo Portrait of a very young ladyLondon, c. 1853
Stereodaguerreotype, original leather protection, label at back of the plate,“by special appointment photographer to Her Majesty”.
Having acquired a share in L. J. M. Daguerre's invention, Claudet was oneof the first to practice daguerreotype portraiture in England, and he inventedthe red (safe) dark-room light, and the idea of using painted backdrops isalso attributed to him.
In 1851 he moved his business to 107 Regent Street, where he establishedwhat he called a "Temple to Photography."
Claudet received many honours, among which was the appointment, in1853, as "Photographer-in-ordinary" to Queen Victoria.
2.000
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Édouard Baldus (1813-1889)La Sainte ChapelleParis, c.1855
Large salt paper print from a collodion gllass negative, 430x336, signed,titled and numbered “38” in the negative, strong color.
“Baldus was born in the tiny Prussian town of Grünebach and baptized"Eduard" in the parish church of Kirchen, where the pastor provided mewith baptismal records when I was doing my research. Before arriving inParis in 1838, Baldus was said to have served in the Prussian military, tohave exhibited paintings in Antwerp, and to have traveled in the UnitedStates as an itinerant painter, enjoying success in New York, though I neverfound evidence to confirm any of that... So you might imagine my warinesswhen I first saw the email about the "secret" of Baldus, sent by Dr. PeterLindlein : "After his time as a soldier Eduard Baldus lives in Cologne. Thelife of a soldier is too modest, the pay too meager, and Cologne, a city withseventy thousand inhabitants, offers too many temptations for a countryboy standing at the edge of adult life... "The young man is having a goodtime with counterfeit money. The maximum penalty by Prussian law, lifelongpenal servitude, does not deter him... Eduard Baldus is wanted throughoutthe Rhine Province. All of the official gazettes carry the following arrestwarrant, dated February 16, 1835: Warrant of Apprehension. The formerbombardier Eduard Baldus, born in Grünebach, in the county Altenkirchen,governorate Koblenz, who is accused of making and distributing forgedCash Notes, evaded the corresponding investigation by escape..." (MalcolmDaniel, "The Secret of Édouard Baldus Revealed")
1.800 euros
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Circle of Giacomo CanevaEquus ferus caballusRome, c. 1855
Salt paper print from a collodion glass negative,strong color.
Giacomo Caneva sent some animal studies, saltpapers from collodion glass negatives to the 1856exhibition, Edinburgh, Photographic Society ofScotland.
Provenance : from Edmond Lebel archive.
2.500 euros
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Frédéric MartensChateau de ChillonParis, vers 1859
Grande lithographie d’EugèneCicéri, d’après une photographiede Martens, 275x395 mm,rehaussee a la main.
La maison Goupil et Cie publia120 grandes lithographies entre1859 et 1864, sous les titres "LaSuisse et la Savoie" puis "LaSuisse, la Savoie et le Tyrol". 108sont réalisées d'après desphotographies de Martens, les n°109 à 119 d'après desphotographies de Ferrier père etfils et Soulier, la n° 120 d'aprèsune photographie de Varroquieret Cie.
Chillon was made popular by Lord Byron, who wrote the poem The Prisoner Of Chillon (1816) about François de BonivardByron also carved his name on a pillar of the dungeon.
300 euros
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Alphonse de Launay (1827-1906)Collodion Glass Portrait1862
Collodion Glass Negative, 180x130 mm, date and name written with a drypoint on the plate, an angle missing since a long time.
Provenance : Vente de l’atelier de Honguemare, albums et négatifs,novembre 2013.
900 euros
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Alexandre Trauner (1906-1993)Somewhere in Paris, c.1938
Vintage silver print, 160x160 mm.
Provenance : the artist’s archive.
600 euros
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Lucien Clergue (1934-2014)Young gypsy king with young dogArles, 1965
Vintage silver print, 240x180 mm, photographer’s stamp, signature andcaption : “"Nicolas Reyes (Gypsy Kings)" and "1965 by Lucien Clergue -printed 1965 by Lucien Clergue".
“... tout a vraiment commencé en 1961. J'exposais au MoMA de New-York.Lors du vernissage un monsieur se présente et me demande si je connaisManitas de Plata. Il avait entendu un enregistrement amateur et depuis 6ans il ne parvenait pas à entrer en contact avec lui. C'était Alan Silver, ledirecteur de la Maison de disques Connoisseur. À mon retour en France,j'ai donc fait l'intermédiaire. Je suis allé voir Manitas avec son cousin JoséReyes, le père des futurs Gipsy Kings, pour lui annoncer qu'il allaitenregistrer un disque aux États-Unis. Il a voulu y aller en voiture, refusantavion et bateau, puis il s'es ravisé me demandant de répondre qu'ilsdevaient venir l'enregistrer en France. Enfin il a fini par exiger 1 million defrancs. Alan Silver a accepté et est venu à Arles en 1963 pour faire lesenregistrements. Un coffret de trois disques est sorti en 1965. Il a rencontréun énorme succès car la promotion était assurée par «Book of the MonthClub». Et fort logiquement les contrats pour les concerts sontarrivés.”(Interview de Lucien Clergue au Figaro le 7 novembre 2014).
1.800 euros
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“The advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don’t understandit that much, the language is perfect melody” (Emir Kusturica)
N°3 : Conversation autour de Vincent van GoghNicéphore, cahier de photographies
The third issue of Nicéphore, cahier de photographies, is anounced for nextmonth. After the selfportrait of Gustave Le Gray and the silhouette of ananxious Charles Baudelaire, the 112 pages publication describes thecomplete investigation about a pair of direct positives melanotypes on paperdepicting a group of Paris artists. Found in a group of autographs letters ofa Parisian antiquarian book dealer who build in the 1920’s Myriam deRotschild’s collection, they had been waiting some attention for nearly acentury.
In conversation with Vincent Van Gogh are Paul Gauguin, Emile Bernard,Félix Jobbé-Duval. Isolated and lonesome on the second plate we recognizePaul Signac. The location, identified as the courtyard of the “Salle derépétitions du Théatre Libre” proposed by André Antoine as a free exhibitionhall to young artists, suggests the photographs correspond to the little knownexhibition Van Gogh shared with Seurat and Signac, exhibition whichoriginated a dispute with Bernard.
The collodions bear the stamp of an exclusive distributor “Gautier-Martin”but no signature, they could be attributed to the Theo Van Gogh friend, JulesAntoine, art critic of the Neo-impressionism movement, brother of AndréAntoine and amateur photographer.
Then these collodions not only show us for the first time the face of Vincentvan Gogh but document the exact moment when a group of artists in 1887brought art in revolution.
Nicéphore n°2 now online Nicéphore n°1 now online
l’identification des modèlesa
NICÉPHORECahier de photographies
GUSTAVE LE GRAYRUE VIVIENNE
Se trouve à Paris chez Serge Plantureux — Galerie Vivienne, n° 70
PREMIER CAHIER 21 SEPTEMBRE 2012 01.1 (Ie ZONE, 1e PÉRIODE)
