DC Fine Art Photography Fair

10/14/2013

10/14/2013

Now that we've all recovered from the fair, we'd love to hear your feedback! Please comment or message your thoughts about the fair and how we can improve for next year! Check back here or our website at dcfineartphotography.com for news and updates, and thanks for coming out!

Photo credit: Linda Wheeler

10/05/2013

Great information on collecting photography from our panelists this morning!

10/04/2013

The final nails are being hammered over here at the fair! Join us this weekend and check out our listing in the Washington Post! See you all this weekend!

10/03/2013

Our LAST featured gallery of the day: Stephen Daiter Gallery of Chicago, IL.

For more information, visit stephendaitergallery.com. And for more information about the fair, visit dcfineartphotography.com! Hope to see you all this weekend!

Photograph: Kenneth Josephson, Washington, D.C., 1975

10/02/2013

For art lovers who have been shuttered by museums because of the government shutdown, the DC Fine Art Photography Fair is open and free to the public this weekend!

Today's featured gallery: National Geographic Image Collection of Washington, DC.

The National Geographic Image Collection will be featuring SURFACE REALM: New Works by Contemporary National Geographic Photographers at the fair. For more information, visit photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/image-collection/

Photograph: Fresco, Bath, Maine, 2010, Heather Perry/National Geographic Image Collection

10/01/2013

Today's featured gallery: Candela Books + Gallery of Richmond, VA.

Candela Books + Gallery will feature work from several notable artists, including Courtney Johnson, Louis Draper, Gita Lenz, Greta Pratt, Kristin Skees, and more. For more information about Candela Books + Gallery, visit candelabooks.com.

Photograph: Gita Lenz, Broken Pallet, circa 1950s

10/01/2013

Looking forward to it, four days left!

Today's Alan's Choice will highlight another photograph you'll see at the DC Fine Art Photography Fair.

Edward Weston wasn’t interested in the exotic…unless you think of Tina Modotti as exotic, which I do. He traveled, and photographed mostly in California (certainly enough there to keep anyone busy), but more often he kept to within 200 yards of his house near Point Lobos. He had nothing against the domestic, and certainly seemed to like vegetables.

He felt that it wasn’t important what he photographed, but the way he photographed it that transformed the commonplace to the truly transcendent…and there’s hardly anything more common than cabbage. Unless you choose a leaf whose ribbing, when you light it just so leaves you astonished as now you can truly see the beauty of its form, the miracle of it’s structure. It’s as graceful as a fully plumed swan, settling onto the surface of a lake, or a ballerina dancing Tchaikovsky. It’s easy to get lost in its luminosity, and meditative grace, and just as easy to fry it up with some potatoes and onions, which he also did.

09/30/2013

During this year's fair on Saturday from 11am-noon there will be a panel: "On Collecting Photography: Advice from the Experts" featuring Alan Klotz of the Alan Klotz Gallery, Sarah Kennel, Associate Photography Curator at the National Gallery of Art and Tim Hyde, photographer and private collector. The discussion is free and open to the public and will be a great mix of advice from a gallery point of view, a museum curator point of view, and a photographer and private collector.

09/30/2013

We are days away from the fair! Today's featured gallery: the Halsted Gallery of Franklin, MI.

For more information about the Halsted Gallery, visit halstedgallery.com

Photograph: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Hyres, 1925

09/29/2013

The featured DCFAPF of the day: Gary Edwards Gallery of Washington, DC.

For more information about the Gary Edwards Gallery, visit gedwardsgallery.com.

Photograph: Robert Doisneau, Paris, 1950s.

09/28/2013

We are ONE WEEK away from the DC Fine Art Photography Fair!

Today's featured gallery: Berlanga Fine Art of Chicago, IL.

For more information about Berlanga Fine Art Photography, visit paulberlanga.com

Photograph: Rosemary Warner, Susan, 1995. Berlanga Fine Art Photographs