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ATLANTA CELEBRATES PHOTOGRAPHY 2019 AUCTION GALA ATLANTA CELEBRATES PHOTOGRAPHY 2019 AUCTION GALA ATLANTA CELEBRATES PHOTOGRAPHY Atlanta Celebrates Photography SATURDAY, September 14, 2019 Creates experiences that enrich, inspire, and transform. 6:00 pm Cocktails & Silent Auction Photography Changes Lives 7:30 pm Seated Dinner & Live Auction GET THE PICTURE! ACPfest.org The Fairmont 1429 Fairmont Avenue Atlanta, GA 30318 Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2019 ATLANTA CELEBRATES PHOTOGRAPHY Auction Gala Honoree would like to THANK Sarah Kennel Sarah Kennel is the High Museum of Art’s Donald and Marilyn Keough Family Curator of Photography. Kennel joined the High in July 2019 from the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, MA, where she oversaw an extensive collection of photographs dating from 1839 to the present and managed an active and globally oriented photography program. Also while at PEM, she co-curated the critically acclaimed touring exhibition Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings, organized by PEM and the National Gallery of Art, which opens AGG understands the power of great art to transform at the High in October 2019. Kennel previously served for nine years as a curator at the one’s surroundings, and the power of great lawyers to National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where she helped oversee the photography transform legal challenges into business opportunities. collection and managed an active exhibition, acquisition, and research program. As an art historian, Kennel has written and contributed to many publications, including the catalogue for Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings (with co-curator Sarah Greenough of the National Gallery of Art), which was awarded Best Photographic Book at the 2018 Festival International du Livre d’Art et du Film. She has taught at Princeton University; the University of California, Berkeley; and The George Washington University. Kennel earned a doctorate and a Master of Arts in art history from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University. 4 2019 SPONSORS HOST COMMITTEE 2019 GALA COMMITTEE Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles Karen Barney & Andrew Ghertner Brenda Massie - Chairperson Arnall Golden Gregory LLP Judy Beckett Arnika Dawkins - Vice Chairperson Mary Stanley Studio Kathy Kelly-George & George Chen Anna Walker Skillman - Host Myott Studio Shelby & John Cobb Committee Chairperson Rebecca & Mick Cochran Mary Stanley - Gala Committee CHEF Nathan & Mary Dean Chairperson AUCTION Charlotte Dixon & David Dolphin Todd Ginsberg Teri Duffy Amanda Greene GALA Felicia Feaster Tony Casadonte AUCTIONEER Beth Gibbs & Jill Kramer Shelby Cobb Todd Ginsberg Coco Conroy Sarah Krueger Barbara Griffin Rebecca Dimling-Cochran Phillips Auction House, New York Laura Hathaway Teri Duffy Susanne Katz Felicia Feaster Judy & Scott Lampert Gregory Harris TABLE HOSTS Barby & Bert Levy Nicole Jacobs-Licht Corinne & Jeff Adams Joe Massey Judy Lampert Arnika Dawkins Gallery Dee & Larry North Dee Gill North Lucinda Bunnen Amy Miller & Anderson Scott Murphy Townsend Jerry & Vicky Drisaldi Phyllis & Sidney Rodbell Avril Vignos High Museum of Art Murphy Townsend & Gregor Turk Christina Price Washington Avril Vignos Keith Washington Jackson Fine Art Catherine Wilmer Brenda Massie & Jim Hodges Vern Yip & Craig Koch Young Collectors Club Marni & Julian Mohr 6 Amy Elkins Michael James O’Brien Three Years Out of a Death Row The God of Whistling (Michael Sentence (River) Robinson) Date: 2009-2016 Date: 2016 Series: NA Series: The Fall of Icarus Edition: AP Edition: #2 of 5 Paper Size: 20” x 24” Paper Size: 30” x 24” unframed Medium: Archival Pigment Print Medium: Archival Pigment Print Courtesy: The Artist Courtesy: The Artist and Holden Value: $2,750 Luntz Gallery Value: $2,000 About the Photograph: About the Artist: About the Photograph: About the Artist: A pen pal serving a death row sentence describes being Amy Elkins is a visual artist primarily working in The title is from a poem by Danez Smith: Michael O’Brien is Associate Chair of Photography at baptized while in prison. The Father had to reach through photography and has spent the past decade researching, “ what was i before? a boy? a son? the Savannah College of Art and Design. O’Brien is also the bars to touch him, even with such restrictions he creating, and exhibiting work that explores the a warning? a myth? i whistled a published poet. His photographic work has been remembers the touch as electric. Despite the act of the multifaceted nature of masculine identity as well as the now i’m the god of whistling.” featured in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Travel + Leisure, baptism he feared it wasn’t good enough to save him. He psychological and sociological impacts of incarceration. New York magazine, and is included in the permanent longed to do a full submersion baptism in a river, like Jesus Her approach is series-based, steeped in research, and Since 2000 my work has been based on a reaction to living collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London, and had. This image was constructed out of his description of oscillates between formal, conceptual, and documentary. through the decades of loss due to the AIDS crisis. the Cleveland Museum of Art, among others. the river he wished to be baptized in using appropriated images which were then composited to account for the Elkins has been exhibited and published both nationally The photos are a combination of analogue and digital amount of years spent in prison. and internationally, and has been awarded the Aperture processing and often layered to mirror memory and time: Prize. Her first bookBlack is the Day, Black is the Night longing, loss, transformation, discovery. won the 2017 Lucie Independent Book Award. It was “I never found them again-all lost so quickly…the poetic shortlisted for the 2017 Mack First Book Award and eyes, the pale face…in the darkening street” the 2016 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook -C.P. Cavafy, Days of 1903 Prize as well as listed as one of the Best Photobooks of 2016 by TIME, Humble Arts Foundation, Photobook Store Magazine, and Photo-Eye, among others. 7 8 Joseph Guay Henri Dauman Morning Light Andy Warhol, The American Supermarket, New York 1964 Date: 2005 Date: 1964 Series: NA Series: NA Edition: NA Edition: NA Size: 22" X 18" Paper Size: 20” x 16” Medium: Base Resin Photograph Medium: Archival Pigment Print on on Wood Canson Photographique Paper Courtesy: Dr. Troy Krausen Courtesy: The Artist Value: $2,800 Value: $3,750 About the Artist: About the Photograph: About the Artist: Joseph Guay (born November 6, 1971) is an American fine art painter, sculptor, large scale photographer, and Paul Bianchini, owner of the Madison Avenue gallery on Born in France, Henri Dauman established a name film director. Born in Lewiston, Maine, to parents of French-Canadian descent, Guay resides in Atlanta, Georgia. New York’s upper east side devised the supermarket for himself in New York in the 1960s as a feature Top collectors of Guay's work include: Sir Elton John; Evgeny Lebedev, owner of Lebedev Holdings, Ltd. and the setting for the display of Pop Art. In the first two weeks of photographer for Life magazine. He photographed Independent; Peter Koral, founder of Seven Jeans; Arthur Blank, cofounder of The Home Depot and owner of the Atlanta the exhibition 3000 persons passed through and Bianchini personalities of the day such as Andy Warhol, Marilyn Falcons; Ed Roland from Collective Soul; Rich Robinson from The Black Crowes; Laura Turner Seydel, founder of Captain happily took orders on a grocer’s pad. One of the items was Monroe, Elvis Presley, Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, and Planet Foundation & Turner Foundation; Ken H. Doble, III, founder of QR Capital; Kevin Willis, basketball's twenty-year an Andy Warhol painting of a can of Campbell’s soup. Right Marshall McLuhan, among many others. He documented veteran; and football stars David Johnson and Jamal Anderson. under it were everyday (2 for 35 cents) cans of Campbell’s both John F. Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign and soup, autographed by Warhol. They went briskly for $6 a his 1963 funeral. For more than five decades Dauman’s can. Warhol offered me one of the autographed cans which work has been published in magazines including I politely refused since I had plenty of those at home! This The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Forbes, landmark exhibition became known worldwide as The Smithsonian, and Town & Country. In 1967 Dauman American Supermarket. was awarded Picture of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association. His photographs have been exhibited around the world. Henri Dauman: Looking Up will open at The Breman Museum in Atlanta on September 15, 2019. Henri Dauman: Looking Up, the feature film about his life and work, will be released by 9 Samuel Goldwyn Films in early 2020. 10 WOOD’S CHAPEL BBQ Harold Feinstein White Peony Chef Todd Ginsberg Date: 1999 Series: NA 2019 ACP GALA Edition: 1 of 50 SPECIAL Paper Size: 15” x 17” Whole Lamb Auction Item Medium: Archival Pigment Print Private Party for Twenty Courtesy: Estate of Harold at Wood’s Chapel BBQ Feinstein, Judith Thompson & Lumière Value: Priceless Value: $2,000 About This Item: About the Photograph: About the Artist: Chef Todd Ginsberg grew up in New Jersey, graduated from the Culinary Institute of America, and embarked on a One of the biggest innovations in Feinstein’s work began in Harold Feinstein was born in Coney Island in 1931. He blazing career: The Ritz-Carlton’s The Dining Room in Atlanta; Madison’s in Highlands, North Carolina; Lucas Carton in the late 90’s when he took out a loan and purchased high- began his career in photography in 1946 at the age of Paris; and Alain Ducasse in New York. Then in Atlanta, he served as executive chef of Bocado.