The Photo Review, a critical journal of photography founded in 1976, will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a spectacular Annual Benefit Auction on Saturday, October 8, 2016, at 7 p.m. at Hamilton Hall, University of the Arts at Broad and Pine Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The auction will offer the most significant array of photographs from the 19th century to the present that The Photo Review has ever presented.
The event will feature an international slate of photographers as well as a host of Philadelphia artists. Beginning and experienced collectors alike will have the opportunity to bid on work by such historic masters as Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Eugène Atget, Édouard Baldus, Herbert Bayer, Charles Bierstadt, Ilse Bing, Karl Blossfeldt, Edward S. Curtis, Andre Adolphe-Eugene Disderi, Maxime Du Camp, Harold Edgerton, Walker Evans, Laure Albin Guillot, George Harvan, Dave Heath, Gertrude Käsebier, André Kertész, Eli Lotar, Dora Maar, Charles Marville, Barbara Morgan, Dorothy Norman, Mark Riboud, Alexander Rodchenko, Auguste Rodin, Arthur Rothstein, Auguste Salzmann, Louis Stettner, Lou Stoumen, John Vachon, and Garry Winogrand.
In addition, a broad range of 19th-century and vernacular photographs is up for bid. According to Photo Review editor Stephen Perloff, prices will range from $50 to $7,000.
A preview will be held at the University of the Arts on Friday, October 7, from 11 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and on Saturday, October 8 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., just prior to the auction. Proceeds from the auction, a popular event since 1981, fund such activities as an annual juried competition for emerging photographers. Admission is free with purchase of the fully illustrated catalog, available through The Photo Review, 215-891-0214.
Buyers may preview the live and silent auction online, and place bids at http://www.photoreview.org/auction.
