E-Photo
Issue #16  5/22/2000
 
Marriage, Photography NY Style

By Alex Novak

It was bound to happen.  In a Life meets Art (as the promotional card even reads) scenario, two New York photography gallery partners have decided to tie the knot romantically and celebrate their marriage and passion with a photography show entitled--what else--"I Do."

Janet Sirmon and Alan Klotz will be getting married themselves on June 10.  Not in the gallery though, but in a special place in the Catskills.

But at the suggestion (some would say instigation) of fellow dealer Keith DeLellis, they will have a show of wedding photography at the gallery, and not just any wedding photography, but photography by the likes of Steichen, etc. 

They have even reserved a small section of the gallery's wall for a couple of contact prints of their own wedding.  Think roses, lots of roses.  But you'll have to wait until about June 13-14 for these special pictures.

You can see the rest of the exhibit beginning Thursday, June 1st between 6-8:30 pm right on through to June 24th.  Yes, it's a June wedding and gallery show.  Perfect, yes?  We wish the couple all the very best.

Alan Klotz/Photocollect is on 22 E 72nd St. in New York City.  The gallery's phone number is: 212-327-2211.  Normal gallery hours are 11am-6pm, Wed.-Sat. 

Novak has over 47 years experience in the photography-collecting arena. He is a long-time member and formally board member of the Daguerreian Society, and, when it was still functioning, he was a member of the American Photographic Historical Society (APHS). He organized the 2016 19th-century Photography Show and Conference for the Daguerreian Society. He is also a long-time member of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, or AIPAD. Novak has been a member of the board of the nonprofit Photo Review, which publishes both the Photo Review and the Photograph Collector, and is currently on the Photo Review's advisory board. He was a founding member of the Getty Museum Photography Council. He is author of French 19th-Century Master Photographers: Life into Art.

Novak has had photography articles and columns published in several newspapers, the American Photographic Historical Society newsletter, the Photograph Collector and the Daguerreian Society newsletter. He writes and publishes the E-Photo Newsletter, the largest circulation newsletter in the field. Novak is also president and owner of Contemporary Works/Vintage Works, a private photography dealer, which sells by appointment and has sold at exhibit shows, such as AIPAD New York and Miami, Art Chicago, Classic Photography LA, Photo LA, Paris Photo, The 19th-century Photography Show, Art Miami, etc.