The Expert Eye

The Expert Eye
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The Expert Eye

Aimee Pflieger loves discovering connections between seemingly disparate subjects, and pulling at the threads that photography has woven through culture since its invention. In this podcast, she talks about photographs she’s handled during her career (as well as ones she hopes to someday), drawing out the hidden stories behind the images and illuminating the hidden histories of photography.

  1. 12/16/2024

    Episode 31: A Conversation with Leland Rice, Part II

    In the second half of my conversation with curator, educator, and photographer Leland Rice, he talks about two major exhibitions that he worked on for two photographers whose work he greatly admired-Frederick Sommer and Herbert Bayer. We also talk about the important connections, or “linkages” that have existed in his life.

    53 min

  2. 12/01/2024

    Episode 30: Post-Sale Wrap Up with Aimee and Emily

    Despite a raging head cold, Aimee barrels through to give you want you want: a discussion with Emily Bierman that covers the stellar results of the sale of Ansel Adams, A Legacy: Photographs from the Meredith Collection. This auction smashed records and exceeded expectations overall. We discuss white-glove auctions, the Ansel Adams market, estimates, auction development, research, and I ask Emily to define some of the quirky words we use in the department while cataloguing. Tune in for some major inside-ball information on how we do what we do!

    48 min

  3. 09/16/2024

    Episode 29: A Conversation with Denise Bethel, Part II

    In this long awaited second interview with former Chairman of Sotheby’s Photographs, Denise Bethel, she and Aimee talk about her long career at Sotheby’s and the many treasures she handled, challenges she faced, and things she learned.

    1h 31m

  4. 08/26/2024

    Episode 28: A Conversation with Leland Rice

    This is the first part of a conversation between Aimee Pflieger and Leland Rice on May 19, 2024. Here, he details his first exposure to photography, his experiences both as a student and as an instructor, and finally the genesis and execution of the first major American exhibition of László Moholy-Nagy’s photographic work. This groundbreaking exhibition and accompanying catalogue of gathers around 75 of the artist’s photographs and photograms and traveled to 21 venues in 4 years, through the summer of 1979.

    1h 19m

  5. 07/11/2024

    Episode 27: The Untitled One

    How important are names? How important are titles of photographs? In this episode Aimee identifies 3 major ways that things become mistitled and how they can make a significant difference in the ways images are viewed using examples by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Josef Koudelka, Robert Capa, and George Hoyningen-Huene.

    10 min

  6. 07/02/2024

    Episode 26: A Conversation with Susan Kismaric

    In this episode, Aimee sits down with Susan Kismaric, who started working in the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976 after a stint at the LIFE Picture Collection. She has curated a host of exhibitions and published several books, including her most recent on Garry Winogrand's color work. Listen in on this captivating conversation that covers Susan's earliest involvement with photography, her memories of MoMA in the 1970s and 80s, and what it was like to work closely with some of the greatest photographers of our time.

    1h 29m

  7. 05/07/2024

    Episode 25: Shades of Gray

    In this episode, Aimee discusses Roy DeCarava’s lyrical photographs with Saul Robbins, who was DeCarava’s studio assistant during graduate school. We talk about one photograph in particular that encapsulates the photographer’s masterful printing style as well as his efforts to communicate his personal experiences.

    34 min

  8. 04/04/2024

    Episode 24: A Conversation with Denise Bethel, Part I

    Denise Bethel joined Swann Galleries in 1980, soon after photographs auctions were inaugurated in New York.  After a decade at Swann, she moved to Sotheby's in 1990, where she rose from senior specialist to Chairman of the Department in her 25 years there. At Sotheby's, she set records in a host of categories, among them the record for any photographs auction worldwide, at $21.3 million, in December 2014. She orchestrated the sales of no less than eight of the eleven classic photographs that have sold at auction to date for over $1 million or more, and she wielded the gavel for all of them. One of these, Edward Steichen's "The Pond, Moonlight," at $2.93 million in 2006, is still the world record for any classic photograph at auction. In this episode, Denise and I discuss the first half of her auction career at Swann Galleries, here in New York City.  She transformed what was then known as Photographica sales into Photographs auctions, impacting the way people think about buying and collecting photographs.  This is the Expert Eye.

    1h 1m
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Aimee Pflieger loves discovering connections between seemingly disparate subjects, and pulling at the threads that photography has woven through culture since its invention. In this podcast, she talks about photographs she’s handled during her career (as well as ones she hopes to someday), drawing out the hidden stories behind the images and illuminating the hidden histories of photography.

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  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    31
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