Daily-ist: Thursday

::HCP Print Auction Preview Party::

Houston Center for Photography announces its largest annual fundraiser, the 26th Anniversary Print Auction. The auction preview and exhibition open on Thursday night, January 17 from 6-8pm and continue through February 13. The auction will take place on Friday, February 15 from 5:30-10pm at the Junior League of Houston, with world-renowned photography specialist Rick Wester as guest auctioneer. Cocktails and silent auction, as well as a live auction preview are from 5:30-7:30pm, buffet dinner will be served from 7:30-8pm, and live auction begins at 8pm. Auction can be previewed online at www.hcponline.org/exhibitions. Absentee bidding welcomed.

About the HCP Print Auction and Exhibition
Each year, HCP holds an annual print auction where artists, galleries, and collectors from all over the world contribute high caliber photographic art that is auctioned for the benefit of HCP’s operating fund. With work included from over 80 artists from around the globe, the selection hosts a catalog of vintage and contemporary fine art prints from both mid-career and established photographic artists collected in both the museum and private sectors. One-hundred percent of the sale proceeds will go directly to HCP for exhibitions, educational initiatives, outreach programs, and HCP’s award winning publication, SPOT magazine.

This year’s auction includes a very rare, mint condition print by Walker Evans, entitled View of the Brooklyn Bridge, dated 1929. The Brooklyn Bridge was the perfect subject for Evans´ attraction to literature, as this photograph was created as part a body of work that would illustrate his friend Hart Crane’s poetry about the same subject. Other artists include Luis González Palma, Todd Webb, Keith Carter, Chris Jordan, Liliana Porter, Ivan Pinkava and MANUAL, among others.

Opening Night Preview Party
2008 Auction Preview Exhibition, Opening reception January 17, 6-8pm in the HCP galleries

Photo Exhibition at HCP
The photo Exhibition runs January 17 - Feb 13th at the Houston Center for Photography (1441 W. Alabama).

MFAH Photo Forum
Head to the HCP galleries on January 21 at 6pm for the MFAH Photo Forum tour, led by Anne Tucker, the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Clint Willour, Co-chair of the Photography Accessions Sub-committee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. This event is co-sponsored by Photo Forum and is free and open to the public. 6-8pm.

2008 Print Auction
The Print Auction will be held on February 15th, 2008, with auctioneer Rick Wester at the Junior League of Houston, Houston, TX, 5:30-10pm.

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image: Susan Meiselas, Shortie on the Bally, Barton Vermont 1974, Modern gelatin silver print