Virtual Walk-through of Aperture’s Benefit Auction

Join Aperture for a virtual walk-through of Christie’s Rockefeller Center galleries as Darius Himes, international head of photographs at Christie’s, and Denise Wolff, senior editor at Aperture, discuss highlights from the upcoming Aperture auction at Christie’s. All auction sales benefit Aperture’s not-for-profit services and activities, with proceeds supporting general operations and the purchase of a new permanent headquarters in New York.

Artists featured in this sale include Sharon Core, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lyle Ashton Harris, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Benjamin Sherry, Stephen Tayo, and more. All works were generously donated by artists, collectors, gallerists, and Aperture patrons.

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About the speakers

Darius Himes is international head of photography at Christie’s. He is responsible for setting and implementing a global strategy for the department and managing the international team. Himes was previously director of Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. Prior to that, he was cofounder of Radius Books, a nonprofit publisher of books on art and photography, and a founding editor of photo-eye Booklist, a quarterly magazine devoted to photography books. A widely respected lecturer and writer on photography and photobooks, his most recent title, Publish Your Photography Book (coauthored with Mary Virginia Swanson), was published in 2011. He received his MA from St. John’s College, Santa Fe, and his BFA in photography from Arizona State University.

Denise Wolff is senior editor at Aperture, specializing in large thematic photography books. Prior to Aperture, she was the commissioning editor for photography at Phaidon Press in London. Aperture books she has commissioned and edited include The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip (2014) and Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography (2017), for which she cocurated the accompanying exhibitions; Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style (2017); The Photographer’s Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas (2014); and Seeing Things: A Kid’s Guide to Looking at Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz (2016). Wolff also spearheads Aperture’s Photography Workshop Series, which includes volumes by Mary Ellen Mark, Larry Fink, Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, Todd Hido, Dawoud Bey, and forthcoming volumes by Richard Misrach and Graciela Iturbide.

Image: David Benjamin Sherry, Upward and Then Eternal Ends, 2009. Estimate: US $10,000‒15,000.