Join Us Online for ‘A Peek Behind the Curtain: Conversations Between Photographers + Their Dealers’

NOTE: This class will be held in a live, online format using the Zoom platform
Class meets 12-1:30pm ET

This ongoing 90-minute series is geared toward photographers and the curious collector, where we go behind-the-scenes to have a flexible, honest and open conversation between a dealer and one of their artists.  From the gallery’s perspective, topics may range from how the dealer met the photographer and how they now work together, to how the gallery defines its brand, how new talent is discovered to the challenges of running a gallery in today’s world. Of particular interest is what attracted the photographer to the dealer and vice versa!  Collector, advisor and Maine Media faculty member, Alice Sachs Zimet, moderates.

©Allen Frame, Acapulco Cliffs, 2010

Allen Frame

Allen Frame is a photographer and writer, based in New York and represented by Gitterman Gallery in New York where his most recent solo exhibition was in 2019. He is a winner of the 2017/2018 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, and recent work he made while in Rome was presented in the exhibition Innamorato at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, in 2018. His 2013 exhibition at Gitterman Gallery,  Dialogue with Bolaño, was presented at the Museum of Art of the Sonora in Hermosillo, Mexico, in 2014.  In 2021 his work will be included in the exhibition The Most Beautiful Part at the Cobra Museum in Amsterdam, and in the exhibition Mexichrome at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.  His book Fever, his previously unpublished color photographs made in New York in 1981, published by Matte Editions, will be released in May, 2021, and his book Innamorato, presenting his recent work from Italy, will be published by Meteoro Editions, in the fall of 2021. Detour, a compilation of his photographs over the 1990’s, was published by Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg in 2001. He has been the curator of numerous exhibitions, including Darrel Ellis in 1996, at Art in General and Love and Jump Back, the Photography of Charles Henri Ford at Mitchell Algus Gallery in New York, in 2021-21.

Gitterman Gallery

Gitterman Gallery was founded March 2003, after Tom Gitterman was in the field for 13 years working for Pace/MacGill Gallery [intern], Zabriskie Gallery and Howard Greenberg Gallery. In addition to representing artists, estates and private collections, Gitterman maintains an inventory of selective work that spans the history of the medium in a full range of styles and periods including established artists as well as artists  overlooked by the history of the medium. The gallery has 30 years of experience in the field and specializes at the connoisseur level from the 19th Century to Contemporary and is available for guidance in establishing or developing a collection as well as buying or selling at auction. 

Check out the Full Series:

Thursday, March 25
12 – 1:30pm EST
Cig Harvey and Caroline Wall, Director of the Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY

Wednesday, April 7
12 – 1:30pm EST
Jess T. Dugan and Catherine Edelman, Director of the Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Thursday, April 22
5:30-7pm EST
David Emitt Adams and Terry Etherton, Director of the Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ

Wednesday, May 5
5:30-7pm EST
Kevin Cooley and Susan Laney, Director of Laney Contemporary Fine Art, Savannah, GA

Tuesday May 18th
12-1:30pm EST
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew & Esa Epstein, sepiaEYE, New York, NY

Wednesday, June 2
12-1:30pm EST
Allen Frame and Tom Gitterman, of Gitterman Gallery, New York, NY

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Instructor: Alice Sachs Zimet

Alice Sachs Zimet, President, Arts + Business Partners (ABP), began to collect photography in 1985 and has amassed a museum-quality collection from 20th Century masters to the present. Alice is Chair, Collections Committee, International Center of Photography (ICP); Chair, Photography Curatorial Committee, Harvard Art Museums; Board Member, Magnum Foundation and American Friends of the Henri Cartier Bresson Foundation; and Advisory Board Member: Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) and the American Photography Archives Group (APAG). Alice founded ABP after a 20-year career as Director, Worldwide Cultural Affairs, The Chase Manhattan Bank. She created the first corporate sponsorship program in a commercial bank, working across 14 countries and generating over $2 billion using the arts as a strategic marketing tool.

Alice began to collect while working at Chase, using a small year-end bonus that soon became her photography budget. The collection has grown to nearly 350 images by 148 different photographers with purchases made from a wide range of sources, including galleries, auctions, benefit auctions, art fairs, and trades. At the same time, over 40 years, deep personal relationships have been carefully curated with professionals across the field. The vast majority of the work resides in her New York City apartment, where she lives surrounded by art.

As an educator, Alice has taught workshops for collectors and photographers about the fine art photography marketplace for nearly 20 years. Over 1,000 seasoned to nascent collectors, photographers, museum trustees (and their children), members of museum acquisition and exhibition committees, gallery owners, private art advisors, and art appraisers have cycled through her workshops or engaged her services. She teaches regularly at the ICP School, Maine Media Workshops + College, the Houston Center of Photography (among others) and beginning in 2026, is on the Faculty at Sotheby’s Institute. Alice also teaches for several other auction houses, including Christie’s, Heritage, and Swann. In addition, Alice is an Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Graduate Program in Arts Administration.

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