25 April 2023: Alice Sachs Zimet hosted a 10×10 Photobooks salon with Allen Frame. Allen presented his recent photobook Innamorato (Meteoro Editions, 2022) and Alice discussed her photography collection and decades-long support of artists.
Allen Frame is a photographer and writer, based in New York and represented by Gitterman Gallery, which, in 2022, presented Whereupon, an exhibition of his black-and-white work from 1977-92. Whereupon will be published as a book by Palermo Publishing in the summer. Frame is a winner of the 2017/2018 Abigail Cohen Rome Prize in Visual Arts from the American Academy in Rome; CEC Artslink’s Back Apartment Residency in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2019; and was a Director’s Guest at Civitella Ranieri in Italy in 2021.
Innamorato (Meteoro Editions, 2022) collects three separate recent projects by Allen Frame into one book, all of them using photographs found in flea markets in Rome. In each piece, Frame features a large collection of vintage photographs pertaining to a single family or individual, and mixes in his own contemporary photographs and perspective to explore personal narratives suggested by the images.
Alice Sachs Zimet is President, Arts + Business Partners. Since 1985, she has amassed a photography collection of roughly 350 images from 20th Century masters to the present. Alice is Chair, Photography Curatorial Committee, Harvard Art Museums; Chair, Acquisitions Committee, International Center of Photography (ICP); and board member, Magnum Foundation. She is on Faculty at Christie’s Education, the ICP School, Maine Media College + Workshops, and NYU’s Graduate Program, Arts Administration. Prior to founding ABP, Zimet was Director, Worldwide Cultural Affairs, The Chase Manhattan Bank (20 years), and, before that, began her career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A big thank you to Alice Sachs Zimet for hosting this salon.
All salon photos by Jeff Gutterman.