Auction Catalog Saturday, October 13, 2012

Live Auction
13. Stephen DiRado
Amy, Aquinnah, MA, 2012
Gelatin Silver Print, AP
Signed Verso, 10 x 8 in.
$1,800
Courtesy of the artist
stephendirado.com
Stephen Dirado is most well known
for his portraiture, night astronomical
photography, and semi-composed
group photography. He has received
fellowships from the Massachusetts
Cultural Council, the National
Endowment for the Arts, and the
Massachusetts Artist Foundation. He
has taken part in both solo and group
exhibitions at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston. His work is held in both public and private collections and
has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Esopus. He is a senior lecturer
in photography at Clark University in Worcester, MA and a 2012 Guggenheim
Fellow.
14. Olivia Parker
Yellow Peony, 2012
Archival Pigment Print, 2/10
Signed Verso, 22 x 33 in.
$3,400
Courtesy of the artist
Represented by Robert Klein Gallery
oliviaparker.com
Olivia Parker became involved in photography in 1970, not long after graduating
from Wellesley College with a degree in the History of Art. Since then,
she has had more than 100 one-person exhibitions in the United States and
abroad, and her work is represented in major private, corporate, and museum
collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; the Museum of Modern
Art, NY; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; and the International Museum
of Photography at George Eastman House, NY. Currently, she is working on a
group of pictures that involve illustrated books, tablets, and pages in order to
explore the relationship between verbal and visual thinking. Parker is on the
Board of Directors of the Photographic Resource Center.
15. Bradford Washburn
South Crillon Glacier and Canoe, 1934,
1934/2003
Gelatin Silver Print
Signed Verso, 15 x 19 in.
$5,200
Courtesy of Decaneas Archive
decaneasarchive.com
Bradford Washburn was Founding
Director of Boston’s Museum of Science and served as Director for forty years.
Known as a mountaineer, explorer, cartographer and aerial photographer,
Washburn traveled the world for eight decades, documenting landscapes from
the Grand Canyon to the Alps, from Mount McKinley to the Matterhorn. Ansel
Adams called Washburn a “roving genius of mind and mountains.” This genius
inspired him to pioneer photographic techniques that captured the most
remote and inaccessible points on earth, under conditions worthy of a stunt
man. Washburn gathered many awards over the course of his venerable career,
including the Alexander Graham Bell Medal from the National Geographic
Society, the Centennial Award also of the National Geographic Society, and the
King Albert Medal of Merit along with nine honorary doctorates.
16. Rania Matar
Stephanie, Beruit, 2010
Archival Pigment Print, 1/15
Signed Verso, 18.5 x 26.5 in.
$1,450
Courtesy of the artist
raniamatar.com
Rania Matar was born and raised in
Lebanon and moved to the U.S. in 1984. Originally trained as an architect at the
American University of Beirut and Cornell University, she studied photography
at New England School of Photography and Maine Photographic Workshops in
Mexico. She teaches photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design
and in refugee camps in Lebanon. Matar has won numerous awards, including
the 2011 Legacy Award at the Griffin Museum of Photography, 2007 and 2011
Massachusetts Cultural Council artist fellowships, first place at the New England
Photographer Biennial, Women in Photography International, and the Prix de
la Photographie Paris. She has accumulated honorable mentions for the 2010
UNICEF Picture of the Year Award, the 2010 Lens Culture Exposure International,
the Silver Eye Center for Photography Fellowship, CENTER and the Photo Review.
She was selected as one of the Top 100 Distinguished Women Photographers
by Women in Photography, and was finalist for the distinguished Foster
Award at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
17. Susan Meiselas
Shortie on the Bally and the
monograph Carnival Strippers, 1973
Gelatin Silver Print and Limited
Edition Book in Custom Case
Print is Signed Verso
67/75
6 x 9 in.
$1,200
Courtesy of Gus & Arlette Kayafas
Susan Meiselas received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MA in
visual education from Harvard University. Her first major photographic essay,
Carnival Strippers, focused on the lives of women doing striptease at New
England country fairs. Meiselas joined Magnum Photos in 1976 and has worked
as a freelance photographer since then. She is best known for her coverage of
the insurrection in Nicaragua and her documentation of human rights issues in
Latin America. Meiselas has had solo exhibitions in Paris, Madrid, Amsterdam,
London, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. Honorary awards of recognition
include: the Robert Capa Gold Medal by the Overseas Press Club (1979); the
Leica Award for Excellence (1982); the Hasselblad Foundation Photography
Prize (1994); and most recently, the Cornell Capa Infinity Award (2005). In 1992,
she was named a MacArthur Fellow.
18. Stephen A. Frank
Diane Arbus during a class at the
Rhode Island School of Design, 1970
Singer Edition Inkjet Print
Signed Recto, 12 x 18 in.
$800
Courtesy of the artist
Stephen A. Frank received his BFA
from Ohio University and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. He has
received numerous awards for his work, including the Royal Society of Arts
Silver Medal, as well as the Community Award for outstanding photographs
depicting ABCD and the Boston community. His work is included in the collections
of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; the High Museum of Art,
GA; and the Brockton Art Museum, MA. He is currently an Assistant Professor of
Art in Photography at Boston University.
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