VENUE
Zankell Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC
HOSTED BY: W.M. HUNT
W.H Hunt is a New York-based a champion of photography: collector, curator and consultant. He has organized shows from his collections: “Hunt’s Three Ring Circus: American Groups Before 1950” in New York with the ICP as well as in Arles, Bologna and Houston. Highlights from the collection featured in his book “The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious” have been exhibited at the Eastman House and Arles, Musée de l’Elysée and FOAM.
A dealer for many years, he was a principle in Hasted Hunt and Ricco/Maresca Gallery and responsible for introducing many major contemporary artists in the US. Hunt has been a judge or nominator for the Lucies, World Press Photo, SONY WPO, Prix Pictet, Getty Images, etc. He has been a longtime board member of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, AIPAD (Association of International Photography and Art Dealers), and The Center for Photography at Woodstock. He also teaches at the School of Visual Arts, Aperture and ICP and for many years he has produced the “Your Picture …” panels for PDN. He is a frequent contributor to L’Oeil de la Photographie and the author of many essays for artist’s monographs.
He loves photography. It changed his life. It gave him one.