![]() ![]() I think the main thing is editioning: If someone says they’re going to do an edition of five, you have to believe it’s in their interest to do an edition of five. You have to understand the factors that apply only to that medium. What’s the first thing a beginning photography collector should know?Ĭollecting photography remains a very specialized proposition. There, sitting in his new space on Rivington Street, he talked to 1stdibs about the photography market, how he advises collectors and his own taste in pictures.ĭanziger leafs through a portfolio of black-and-white images by Hans Breder, pausing at Cuilapan, Mexico, 1973. “It’s extra-populist and accessible.”Īfter 12 years in Chelsea, Danziger moved to the Lower East Side in February. “We like to have fun in the summer,” Danziger says. He’s not a photographer, but rather works with finished images, and has developed a following by painting floral interventions on fashion ads and editorials, including the big ones in bus shelters. He even throws in a painting show from time to time, just to keep things interesting.Ĭurrently, Danziger exhibits at five art fairs, which have become an increasingly big part of his business, and he says he is thrilled to have been accepted into the prestigious Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), which stages the highly attended Art Show, held every winter at the Park Avenue Armory.ĭanziger’s summer exhibition, on view through August 12, features noted street artist Michael De Feo, also known as The Flower Guy. Winston Link, Andy Warhol and Inge Morath. ![]() These days, contemporary photographs by such artists as Chuck Close, Christopher Bucklow and Susan Derges compose about 75 percent of his exhibitions and inventory the remaining quarter is devoted to vintage and modern work by the likes of O. In the 26 years since, Danziger has risen to the top of the heap, becoming one of the handful of gallerists who have helped photography be taken seriously by the rest of the art world. “So I opened one in Soho, representing Elliott Erwitt, Annie Leibovitz, Henri Cartier-Bresson - people I knew from the magazine world.” “I wanted to do my own thing, and the only thing I thought I was qualified to do was open a photography gallery,” says Danziger, now 62. London-reared and Yale-educated - an upbringing that explains his in-between, trans-Atlantic accent - Danziger was named the photo editor of the Sunday Times of London at 25 and later worked on both words and pictures for editor Tina Brown at Vanity Fair in New York. ![]() the Flower Guy) the rare non-photographer Danziger represents, De Feo paints floral motifs on top of photo-centric fashion advertisements and editorial.Īmong his peers, photography dealer James Danziger has a unique background: He had a whole other career in journalism before opening his New York gallery in 1990. Top: He’s devoted his current show, on view through August 12, to Michel De Feo (a.k.a. August 1, 2016Journalist turned photography dealer James Danziger recently moved his 26-year-old gallery from Manhattan’s Chelsea to the Lower East Side. ![]()
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