Saturday, June 7th, 2008 • 6:30-11pm • 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe
LIVE AUCTION WILL BEGIN AT 7:30pm

Nevada Wier is an award-winning photographer specializing in the remote corners of the globe and the cultures that inhabit them. She has been published in numerous national and international publications, including: NG Adventure, Geo, Islands, National Geographic, Outdoor Photographer, Outside, and Smithsonian. She is a Fellow of The Explorer's Club and a member of the Women's Geographic Society. Nevada is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Courtesy: Verve Gallery of Photography

Rudy Burckhardt (1914-1999) is best known for his photography of New York and other cities. In 1987 he had simultaneous New York exhibitions-a show of photos at Brooke Alexander and a film retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. In 1997 he was the subject of a full-scale retrospective at the Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, in Valencia, Spain.

Courtesy: Margarita & Al Waxman

A native New Mexican, Ortega de Chamberlin’s mother was raised on the Zuni pueblo and her father was raised in the Navajo reservation. She studied in Italy and England (Royal Photographic Society) then moved to New York City where she became a member of “Vicious Circle”, an artists’ consortium. She now splits her time between Santa Fe, Nicaragua and Salt Lake City.

Arthur Leipzig’s career as a photographer fulfills the ideals of the great era of American photo-journalism. His start with the Photo League of the 1940s, his freelance work in the 1950s and ‘60s, and his years of full-time teaching illustrate the hardships of a life in photography. Leipzig’s iconic photograph illustrates the grand tradition of the classic street photographer. For 50 years he has roamed the streets of New York, capturing its moods, recording its faces, and documenting its myriad of activities.

Courtesy: Joel Leipzig

Patrick Nagatani’s work has been exhibited internationally since 1976, including at the Art Institute of Boston; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; and the Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England. His work has been featured in numerous books, including Nuclear Enchantment (1991), Patrick Nagatani and Andrée Tracey (1987), Seizing the Light: A History of Photography (2000), and Photography (1998).

Internationally acclaimed German photographer Thomas Ruff has exhibited including solo shows at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Centre National de la Photographie in Paris, Chabot Museum in Rotterdam, and Tate Liverpool, among others. His work has appeared in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, International Foto-Triennale in Esslingen, Germany, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Documenta, Venice Biennale, Biennale of Sydney, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Bienal de São Paulo. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.

Courtesy: Richard Levy & Dana Asbury

Michael P. Berman is a photographer and artist who lives in San Lorenzo, New Mexico. His work is in the permanent collections of many American museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, and the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego.

Courtesy: Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd.

Inspired by the domestic landscapes of her own family and those of her siblings, Blackmon creates surreal yet plausible dramas that unfold as real life and art collide. Blackmon is in the permenent collections of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Toledo Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago among others.

Courtesy: artist & Photo Eye Gallery

Meridel Rubenstein has exhibited throughout the U.S. and Europe and is in collections on both continents. She has received support for her work from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Pollack Krasner Foundation, the Bunting Institute at Harvard/Radcliffe, and the Rockefeller and Reed Foundations.

Meridel Rubenstein is represented by LewAllen Contemporary

Courtesy: Artist & LewAllen Contemporary

David Scheinbaum has been photographing and teaching photography since the early 1970s. Born and raised in New York City, he moved to Santa Fe in 1978 to work with Beaumont Newhall and was Newhall’s assistant until his death in 1993. A self-taught black-and-white printer, David printed for Eliot Porter under his direct supervision, and for Beaumont Newhall, printing photographs for both Beaumont and his late wife, Nancy Newhall. He is currently in a solo exhibition at the National Gallery, Washington D.C.

Courtesy: Verve Gallery of Photography/Scheinbaum & Russek, Ltd.

Developing photographic images on glass is a process Santa Fe artist Margeaux has explored for years. Translucency is the foundation of this body of work, in which photographic images are printed on materials that allow the viewer to look beyond or through what is on the surface. Margeaux has shown throughout the country including: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C; Denison University Art Gallery, Ohio; Artemisa Gallery, Chicago; and the Evanston Art Center; Illinois.

Robert Stivers was recently voted one of the top international photographers by Rotovision, London, England. His work is included in Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Victoria and Albert Museum. Articles about Robert Stivers and his work have appeared in THE New Yorker, Village Voice, Detour Magazine, and ARTnews.

Courtesy: Tina Le Marque Denison & Bob Denison

Anne Ferran is one of Australia’s leading photographers. Ferran’s work is in most major Australian public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery, Monash University, Art Gallery of South Australia and the Art Gallery of NSW. Her work is also in the collection of the International Museum of Photography in Rochester, New York.

Courtesy: Brenda Edelson

Douglas Kent Hall first published photographs of rock idols Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison. He has published 25 books, including two with present California governor and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. His iconic photographs of rock and roll superstars, rodeo, cowboys, prison, flamenco, bodybuilders, the U.S.-Mexico border, writers, and artists are well known worldwide.

Courtesy: Dawn Hall, Devon Hall, the estate of Douglas Kent Hall

Stephen Yadzinski began working for Megargee Vanderlinde Labs (M.V. Labs) in New York City printing for artists such as Annie Leibovitz, Antonin Kratochvil, and Steven Klein. In 1998, Yadzinski was recruited by an internationally recognized commercial photographer to shoot for clients included Boeing, Epson, and Lincoln Financial Group. Yadzinski traveled around the world to photograph such locations as Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Vanuatu, Fiji, the Philippines and the Bahamas, as well as throughout Europe and the US.

Richard Ehrlich has exhibited throughout the country including: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Tennessee State Museum,TN; The United States Holocaust Museum, D.C.; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA; Palazzo Ducale Museum, Italy; UCLA Hammer Museum, LA; Denver Art Museum, CO; and the National Museum American Smithsonian Institute, D.C.

Courtesy: Chris & Ken Raymond

Janet Russek’s work focuses on her environment: her family, the landscape she lives in, her life events. Russek assisted photographer Eliot Porter from l980 through l990. Using natural light, they are imbued with a sense of dark places and mystery. They are at once sensuous, provocative, and symbolic. Russek, who was trained in printmaking, printed these images on a soft matte paper, enhancing the mood of the photograph.

Courtesy: Verve Gallery of Photography/Scheinbaum & Russek , Ltd.

Alex Harris’ work is represented in major collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, and a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship.

Courtesy: Artist & Scheinbaum & Russek

Baron Wolman joined Rolling Stone Magazine as its first Chief Photographer in 1967. Wolman has shot some of the biggest names in rock-and-roll history, including Janis, Frank Zappa, the Who, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, The Doors, George Harrison, and, the Rolling Stones. Baron’s photos are exhibited in fine art galleries around the world. Wolman was also one of the official photographers at Woodstock.

Jean Pagliuso’s exhibitions include Marlborough Gallery, NY; Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe; G. Ray Hawkins, Los Angeles; Marlborough Madrid; Marlborough Fine Art London. She is in the collections of Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins; Robert Altman; Marc Galet; John Alexander; Edie Baskin and Skip Bronson; Eric Fischl; Kelly Klein; Michael Kennedy; and Jann Wenner, Wenner Media Architects, Santa Fe.

Courtesy: artist & Marlborough Gallery, NY

Nic Nicosia was chosen in both 1983 and 2000 to exhibit in the prestigious Whitney Biennial and was included in Documenta in Kassel, Germany. Nicosia’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Dallas Museum of Art; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the Contemporary Art Museum, Montreal. His work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

David Levinthal is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship, Polaroid Corporation Artist Support Grants, and Prix du Livre de Photographie, France. He has had more than 90 solo exhibitions, and his photographs are included in the collections of numerous institutions.

Courtesy: Artist & Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe