I don’t normally publish press releases, but here an exception:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
James Hyman Gallery announces the launch of a special fundraising sale.<\/p>
All profits will go to support the National Health Service.I know that at this time of international crisis, the last thing on people’s minds is looking at art, let alone buying it. In my case, one of my daughter’s has coronavirus (thankfully mildly) and we are under quarantine and waiting to see if we also catch it. All being well my wife, Claire, will return to her job as a surgeon in a major NHS hospital next week.<\/p>
Unfortunately, NHS Hospital staff, on the front line in the treatment of patients with Covid-19, are still working without the proper PPE (personal protective equipment), and there remains a shortage of testing kits and ventilators.<\/p>
As everyone pulls together I have been thinking what I can do as an art dealer. I feel very helpless. What I have done is put together a selection of works by some of the major photographers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and will donate all profits to the National Health Service.<\/p>
It would be wonderful if you could take a look and let me know if anything is of interest to you.<\/p>http:\/\/www.jameshymangallery.com\/exhibitions\/2682\/press\/special-fundraising-sale-for-the-national-health-service<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Although some of the pictures are at least of some interest to me, the prices are a little out of my league. But wealthier readers of this blog (if there are any) might be interested. Regular readers will also know that I think the fetishisation of of the photographic print rather misses the point of our medium and its infinite possibility of reproduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I’ve pointed out here before, if you want an Atget to hang on your wall you can have one at little or no cost, and it will quite likely be a rather better print than you can buy from an art dealer. The one hanging in my front room certainly is. And I’ve certainly printed better Walker Evans prints than were made of his work back in the 1930s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But this is a generous response to the crisis, and I hope it that some will buy and enjoy these pictures, mainly but not all photographs, quite a few of which are images I’ve not seen before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At least one other dealer has made a similar response, with New York based dealer and gallery owner Hans P Kraus Jr <\/a>putting up a sale of prints by Early British Photographers<\/a>, with 10% of the sales revenue going to support New York healthcare workers. The works for sale include some by Talbot himself, as well as Hill & Adamson, Anna Atkins, Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton and others. The print which attracts me most is a later reproduction of Hill & Adamson’s ‘The Bird Cage (the Misses Watson)’, a carbon print made by Jessie Bertram in 1916.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both these sales were featured in posts by Michael Pritchard in the blog on the British photographic history web site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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