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Witkin Gallery print view role Dealer/Gallery dates 1969-1999 city New York City state NY sex n/a historical notes In 1969, Lee Witkin opened a gallery dedicated to fine art photography and pioneered an industry. Before then, few existed. Stieglitz and Steichen might sell to a MoMA, but contemporary photographers worked on the fringes of the art world. Lee drew them into the mainstream. At his first show, Scott Hyde, George Krause, Duane Michaels, George Tice and Burk Uzzle made their debut before New York's elite collectors. Soon established masters came to show at the Witkin. Stieglitz. Steichen. Weston and Curtis. Alvarez Bravo. Brassaï. Doisneau. Exhibiting such historically important work, Witkin and Daitz sought to educate aspiring collectors. Both Witkin and his successor, Evelyne Daitz, recognized the power of new photographers to take the artform down off its pedestal and define it on their own terms. In the early years, Christopher James, Bruce Barnbaum, Keith Carter, Leonard Sussman, Robert Flynt and Mario Cravo Neto would be introduced through the gallery. Short on status but long on energy, the protegés would attract critics and artists as well as collectors to the gallery. The Witkin aesthetic? Lee and Evelyne favored artists looking to plumb their personal vision rather than dialogue with the avant garde. Over the course of 30 years, they mounted more than 300 exhibitions, featuring a wide range of work by artists at all stages of development. --The above information was taken directly from the galleries website on 6/5/2014, http://www.witkingallery.com/ decades of activity 1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 website http://www.witkingallery.com/ updated 03/22/2024 12:09:32 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Center for Creative Photography University of Arizona Libraries Witkin Gallery Records, 1954-1984. see details... The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives Subject file : WITKIN GALLERY: miscellaneous uncataloged material. see details... Getty Research Institute Edmund Teske papers, 1933-1996. see details... The Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives 200 Eastern Parkway BMA Institutional file. Wikin Gallery see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Harry M. Callahan papers, 1943-1975. see details... «  back