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# 05 THE SPRING 2021 CLASSICA free magazine about classic photography In this issue MOHOLY-NAGY FOUNDATION THE HUNGARIAN NEO-AVANT-GARDE Photography at THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART PAUL MESSIER - Conservation of Photographs 1 PHOTOGRAPHY IN COLOGNE DAVID ATTIE: Visual Communication March – May 2021 Bauhaus Mask, c. 1928. Vintage gelatin silver print, 23.3 x 17.4 cm Bauhaus Mask, print, gelatin silver Vintage c. 1928. x 17.4 23.3 T. Feininger Lux Beim Auktionstitel bitte noch ergänzen: Photography (incl. Bauhaus Photography from an Important European Collection) Eine bessere Bilddatei kommt. Michael Diemar braucht die gesetzte Anzeige bis spätestens 2. März. 1845 AUCTIONS 17 June Photography 17 June Evening Sale, 18 June Day Sale — Modern and Contemporary Art + Photography T +49-221-92 57 29-28/-56 — [email protected] — www.lempertz.com 41 E 57TH STREET, SUITE 703, NEW YORK, NY 10022 www.keithdelellisgallery.com 212-327-1482 M–F 11–5 2 CLASSIC-Spring2021-Lempertz-NEW.indd 1 03.03.21 09:44 PHOTOGRAPHY IN COLOGNE Bauhaus Mask, c. 1928. Vintage gelatin silver print, 23.3 x 17.4 cm Bauhaus Mask, print, gelatin silver Vintage c. 1928. x 17.4 23.3 T. Feininger Lux Beim Auktionstitel bitte noch ergänzen: Photography (incl. Bauhaus Photography from an Important European Collection) Eine bessere Bilddatei kommt. Michael Diemar braucht die gesetzte Anzeige bis spätestens 2. März. 1845 AUCTIONS 17 June Photography 17 June Evening Sale, 18 June Day Sale — Modern and Contemporary Art + Photography T +49-221-92 57 29-28/-56 — [email protected] — www.lempertz.com 1 CLASSIC-Spring2021-Lempertz-NEW.indd 1 03.03.21 09:44 WILLEM PHOTOGRAPHIC PETER FETTERMAN GALLERY On The Seine (Simone d’Aillencourt), Paris, Melvin Sokolsky, 1963 In Trees (Simone d’Aillencourt), Paris, Melvin Sokolsky, 1963 30”x30” signed archival pigment photograph 20”x20” signed archival pigment photograph Launching worldwide April 2021 Sebastião Salgado’s AMAZONIA www.peterfetterman.com Santa Monica, CA [email protected] 310.453.6463 Le Dragon (Simone d’Aillencourt), Paris, Melvin Sokolsky, 1963 Bird Cage Intrigue (Simone d’Aillencourt), Paris, Melvin Sokolsky, 1963 20”x20” signed archival pigment photograph 20”x20” signed archival pigment photograph Willem Photographic, 426 Calle Principal, Monterey CA 93950 Contact - Brooke Gabrielson 949.887 .4373 or Robert Packard 415.378.4218, Gallery 831.648.1050 willemphotographic.com – [email protected] – Instagram: willemphotographic Sebastião Salgado. Brazil, 2016 © Amazonas Images 2 WILLEM PHOTOGRAPHIC PETER FETTERMAN GALLERY On The Seine (Simone d’Aillencourt), Paris, Melvin Sokolsky, 1963 In Trees (Simone d’Aillencourt), Paris, Melvin Sokolsky, 1963 30”x30” signed archival pigment photograph 20”x20” signed archival pigment photograph Launching worldwide April 2021 Sebastião Salgado’s AMAZONIA www.peterfetterman.com Santa Monica, CA [email protected] 310.453.6463 Le Dragon (Simone d’Aillencourt), Paris, Melvin Sokolsky, 1963 Bird Cage Intrigue (Simone d’Aillencourt), Paris, Melvin Sokolsky, 1963 20”x20” signed archival pigment photograph 20”x20” signed archival pigment photograph Willem Photographic, 426 Calle Principal, Monterey CA 93950 Contact - Brooke Gabrielson 949.887 .4373 or Robert Packard 415.378.4218, Gallery 831.648.1050 willemphotographic.com – [email protected] – Instagram: willemphotographic Sebastião Salgado. Brazil, 2016 © Amazonas Images 3 10 IN BRIEF 16 GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHY AUCTIONS BASSENGE AND LEMPERTZ By Michael Diemar 22 THE XEROX PHOTO ALBUM OF NOBUYOSHI ARAKI By Michael Reitter-Kollmann 24 FOTOTECA DE PANAMÁ By Michael Diemar 30 ANDREW J. RUSSELL’S THE GREAT WEST By Stacey Lambrow 38 MOHOLY-NAGY FOUNDATION Interview with Hattula Moholy-Nagy By Mary Pelletier 52 THE HUNGARIAN NEO-AVANT-GARDE By Michael Diemar 70 PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Interview with Jeff Rosenheim By Mary Pelletier 84 PAUL MESSIER CONSERVATION OF PHOTOGRAPHS By Michael Diemar www.theclassicphotomag.com Email us at [email protected] SUBSCRIBE to The Classic International : 80 € / France : 50 € – 2 print issues /year Email us at [email protected] ADVERTISE in The Classic Bruno Tartarin Publisher Michael Diemar Editor-in-Chief Email us at [email protected] Mike Derez Graphic Designer Contact the editor at [email protected] Mary Pelletier Contributing editor and social media manager FOLLOW US on @classicphotomag classicphotomag classicphotomag Printed in France by Ott imprimeur Cover: László Moholy-Nagy. 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Well, at least that’s how we started when we launched The Classic at AIPAD in the spring of 2019, with a print magazine and I a basic landing page. Within a few months, Mary Pelletier joined our team as social media manager and contributing editor. In spring 2020, we began publishing the digital version of The Classic simultaneously with the print magazine, which resulted in us quadrupling our readership. Six months later, we launched The Classic Platform on our website, like the magazine, designed by art director Mike Derez. I felt that calendars for photography auctions and fairs would be useful to our readership. The Classic Auction Calendar was launched in November, and this spring we launched The Classic Fair Calendar. The platform has proved very popular and I’m extremely grateful to all the authors for their contributions. Denis Pellerin however, deserves a special mention. At the time of writing, he has contributed six fascinating articles, including investigations into the mysteries behind Florence Nightingale’s iconic photographs and stereo daguerreotypist Warren Thompson. One of the reasons for the platform’s existence is that it allows us to spill over from the magazine, so to speak. And this time we are indeed spilling over. We have two lengthy articles on a Hungarian theme in the magazine, the Moholy-Nagy Foundation and the Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde. On the platform, Renate Heyne is interviewed about Moholy-Nagy’s photograms and we present two projects on the Roma people by György Stalter, part of the Neo-Avant Garde during the 1970s. We also use the platform to publish interesting articles from the past. This time, I’m particularly pleased to able to republish two articles by Julia Ballerini, that would lead to her book The Stillness of Hajj Ishmael - Maxime du Camp’s 1850 Photographic Encounters, published in 2010. Finally, it’s always good to see new initiatives, be it classic photo fairs, organisations or book publishers.