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AIPAD 2023

A Preview Of Our Selection For The 2023 Photography Show, Presented By AIPAD

March 31 – April 2, 2023

Photo image of a breakfast table with coffee and and an open book showing a color photograph by Saul Leiter.
Black and the photo image that shows glimpses of animals emerging from a painterly abstract field derived from photo chemicals.
Photo of an empty "photo op" that depicts a cartoon of man in traditanol Japanese dress, the place to put your face is empty, so the patterned fence behind is seen through the face hole.
Polaroid photo portrait of a young Liza Minnelli, wearing dramatic lipstick and eyeliner.
Old black and white photo of two kids in masks playing in a city lot, one is up a tree, the other leans on the tree, both look a the camera.
Sequence of 12 old black and white image showing the motion of a child lifting a doll and running.
World War II era black and white photo of group of eight young boys on a city street, standing with the wooden frame of a large broken mirror.
High contrast black and white photo of a city sidewalk, business people—one holding briefcase—are seen from the wais down, mostly in silhouette.
Negative image of woman, nude except for a transparent sheet, reclining on a mattress. The pocked concrete floor behind her, seen in negative, looks like a starry sky.
Photo of a Japanese man on a couch made to look like red lips, dressed in drag as Jane Fonda's character from Barbarella.
Staged black and white photo of a seated young woman in a white dress, reaching up towards a dangling vine. The background shows decoratively painted swirls and whorls.
Color photograph of a breakfast table with coffee, a crepe, and a book opened to a surrealistic black and white photo of a hand emerging from a shell.
Photo of an empty "photo op" that depicts a cartoon policemen, the place to put your face is empty, so the forested background is seen through the face hole.
Six identical black and white photos of TV personality Milton Berle, holding a cigar—the photos are stitched together into a grid, with thread.
Warm toned black and white image of a classical statue bust, standing in a wooded grove.
High contrast black and white photo of an old woman in a he'd scarf walking on a city sidewalk in front of a large window showing a number of mid-century half-globe hanging light fixtures.
Color photo of a diner booth, red seats with a gold wall, and haphazardly attached tinsel and Xmas decorations.
Vertical panoramic photo of a brightly colored domestic interior, light comes through a drawn curtain.
Anstraciton showing concentric circular forms drawn in colored p3encil on the center of a black background.
Color photograph of dimly lit old bar booths with round pendant lights and decorative tinsel on a brick wall.
Sequence of black and white images showing movements of a trotting and jumping horse and a rider wearing a suit and hat.
Abstraction showing circular forms drawn in colored pencil over a black background.
Vertical panoramic photo of a colorful train car interior.
Photo of a red bridge dramatically emerging in a shaft of hazy light from a misty green hillside.

Press Release

LAURENCE MILLER GALLERY—AIPAD FAIR PREVIEW
The 2023 Photography Show, presented by AIPAD
March 31 – April 2

Laurence Miller Gallery will present six contemporary photographers—Anastasia Samoylova, Raïssa Venables, Patricia Bender, Barbara Jaffe, Toshio Shibata, and Yoko Ikeda—in conversation with early classic photographs by Andy Warhol, Eugène Atget, Helen Levitt, Ray K. Metzker, Bruce Wrighton, and Eadweard Muybridge. This mix spans 130 years and, when seen together, embraces the great diversity of possibilities inherent to photography.

Anastasia Samoylova's Breakfast With still-lifes playfully pay homage to the greats of twentieth century photography, capturing moments of morning inspiration. Raïssa Venables’ composite photographs of interior spaces both alter space and mimic the role of peripheral vision in sight. Patricia Bender revisits the earliest processes and materials of darkroom photography in her enigmatic (and camera-less) abstractions. Yoko Ikeda finds poetry in the prosaic, and mysteries in the mundane, using photography to create an imaginary world among the commonplace.  Barbara Jaffe’s sensual exploration of the expressive potential of negative photographic images are revealed in her two bodies of work: Dark Sun and Forest of Ghosts.

A selection of Andy Warhol's portraits, including Liza Minnelli and Milton Berle, adroitly examine the nature of 20th century celebrity, while also anticipating  the photographic voyeurism of 21st century social media. Bruce Wrighton’s lush interiors of working class diners and taverns in Upstate New York form a powerful typology.  Finally, the presentation will feature a large selection from one of photography’s earliest and most significant visual breakthroughs: Eadweard Muybridge's late 19th century studies of Animal Locomotion.