JOIN RAGO AUCTIONS ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, FOR A LECTURE BY STEPHEN PERLOFF, “THE PORTRAIT IN PHOTOGRAPHY”

Lambertville, NJ:  The Rago Arts and Auction Center hosts an open house on Tuesday, September 8 featuring Stephen Perloff, founder and editor of The Photo Review, speaking in a lecture entitled, “The Portrait in Photography” at 6 pm.

“From the very earliest days of photography, photographers have sought to capture portraits not only of the famous, but of the notable, as well as of everyday people,” says Stephen Perloff. “How they focus their gaze and ours tells us much about their times and reveals the changing history of the medium they chose to employ.” This is the story told in “The Portrait in Photography”, using images selected from the turn-of-the-last century to today’s celebrity-driven culture.

Stephen Perloff is the founder and editor of The Photo Review, a critical journal of international scope publishing since 1976, and editor of The Photograph Collector, the leading source of information on the photography art market. He has taught photography and the history of photography at numerous Philadelphia-area colleges and universities and has been the recipient of two grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for arts criticism. He was the recipient of the Sol Mednick Award for 2000 from the Mid-Atlantic region of the Society for Photographic Education, the first annual Vanguard Award from the Philadelphia Center for the Photographic Image in 2007, and the Colin Ford Award from the Royal Photographic Society in 2012.

His photographs have appeared in numerous exhibitions and reside in many museum and private collections, and he has curated more than a score of exhibitions. He has been widely praised for his writing about the photography art market, including his detailed auction reports, and for his extensive reporting on major stories like the exposure of the production of fraudulent Lewis Hine prints. His articles have been reproduced in dozens of other journals — like American Photo, The Art Newspaper, Town & Country, Silvershotz, and Photo News — and he has been called on as an expert to comment on the state of the photography market for publications such as The New York Times, The Toronto Globe & Mail, and The Wall Street Journal.

A wine and cheese reception begins at 5 p.m. Mr. Perloff’s talk begins at 6 p.m. RSVP to 609.397.9374, ext. 119 or raac@ragoarts.com. If you are unable to rsvp in advance, please join us if you can. All are welcome.

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High-resolution images available on request.

About Rago Arts and Auction Center

Rago is a leading U.S. auction house with $30 million in annual sales. It serves thousands of sellers and buyers yearly with a singular blend of global reach, personal service and competitive commissions for single pieces, collections and estates. Rago holds auctions of 20th/21st c. design, fine art, decorative arts, furnishings, jewelry, Asian, militaria, coins and currency, silver, historic ephemera, and ethnographic property. Rago also provides a range of appraisal services conducted by USPAP (Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice) compliant appraisers, performed to the highest standards set by the IRS, insurers and the Appraisers Association of America. Rago is located in New Jersey, midway between New York City and Philadelphia.

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