Joel Sternfeld - Photographs of the High Line

Joel Sternfeld, Looking South on an Afternoon in June, 2000, Negative: 2000, Print: 2009
Digital C-print, 40 x 50 inches, Printed in editions of 7 with 3 APs. Luhrig Augustine Gallery.

Luhrig Augustine Gallery is presenting photographer Joel Sternfeld's images of the High Line in New York before it is redeveloped. The works will be presented at the Art Dealer's Association of America's, Art Show in New York whom with the gallery has a long relationship with, this month. The work represents the preservation done in an attempt to save it by The Friends of the High Line who engaged Sternfeld to document it. As I mentioned in a previous post the project is currently in its second stage and as you can the photographs are a nostalgic look at why the magical location was saved in the first place.

Desperate times at the ADAA?

On receiving an email regarding the ADAA Collectors' Forum The Global Economy and the Art Market: A New Perspective in Uncertain Times it seems that judging from this collectors and dealers are definitely struggling with uncertain economic times especially in the USA.

I would suggest that it is the more unpredictable or less committed collectors that would perhaps be buying less art or being cautious. Buyer's with serious collections and knowledge would understand that this is the time when some serious bargains are to be had (and to use some economic jargon) a bit of a readjustment period.

The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) which is holding this forum seems to be made up some of American's oldest and established galleries and dealers with speakers from Yale, The Guggenheim Foundation and one half of Luhrig Augustine Gallery, Roland Augustine (President of the ADAA) all speaking. Clearly this is a genuine example of the seriousness in which the art market in American is taking this financial crisis. On the upside, if there is one, I hope that younger and emerging artists will benefit in more investment due to their lower prices - here's hoping.


ADAA Collectors' Forum
The Global Economy and the Art Market:
A New Perspective in Uncertain Times

Saturday, December 13, 2008 10:00 am-noon
New York Historical Society December 13, 2008