ASA Mini Seminar In San Francisco

The ASA NorCal Chapter is continuing with its minim seminar schedule. I posted on the initial mini seminar back in March on Photography conservation (click HERE to read that post). The NorCal chapter of ASA has now scheduled two more mini seminars for this year, including one on Tuesday June 14, 6:30 - 8:30 pm called the Intricacies of Appraising Fine Art Photography with Denise Bethel. There is also a mini seminar scheduled for September 14, on Identifying Antique Frames with Aedicule Fine Framemaking.

The host for Intricacies of Appraising Fine Art Photography evening will be Ed Carey at Gallery 291, San Francisco whose gallery explores the many alternative processes that are such an important part of the rich history of photography. Gallery 291 will be featuring an exhibition of Elisabeth Sunday: New Works from Africa.  The evening mini seminar is only $35.00, space is limited and you may register at http://www.regonline.com/theintricaciesofappraisingfineartphotography.

Louise Allrich, the event coordinator states about the evening and the presenter

Unlike paintings, prints, and sculpture, appraising photographs presents very particular problems. The lack of catalogues raisonné for photographs, combined with subtle variations in different prints made from the same negative, make appraising photographs a genuine challenge. Known for her extensive knowledge and research, Ms. Bethel will describe what makes a photograph valuable, how conservation can affect value and resources to consult when photograph appraisals arise.

Denise Bethel, Director of the Photographs Department, Sotheby's, New York, is the senior expert in the world of photograph auctions in the United States.

In the past decade, she has established Sotheby's New York as the photographs market leader in practically every auction category -- setting world records for a host of blue-chip photographers, as well as record sale totals for private, corporate, and museum photographs collections. Now in her thirty-first year of conducting photographs sales, Denise has hammered down the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction, 'The Pond -- Moonlight' by Edward Steichen, at $2, 928,000. This was included in the February 2006 landmark Sotheby's sale, Important Photographs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Including Works from the Gilman Paper Company Collection, which brought a total of $14,982,900, a record for a single-owner collection of photographs sold at auction. Most recently she auctioned the Polaroid collection of photographs.

Trusted by collectors, curators, and dealers the world over, Ms. Bethel has garnered for Sotheby's the lion's share of photographs sold by American museums in the past several years, including works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of the City of New York, The George Eastman House, The San Diego Museum of Art, The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, and The Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.

For more information on the mini seminars, contact  ASA.NorCal@hotmail.com or 408-867-3440 to speak with Louise Allrich, Event Coordinator (Pacific Time).

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