Pierre Apraxine
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Pierre Apraxine (1934–2023) was a Russian-born curator and connoisseur of photography. Born in Tallinn, Estonia, into a noble family, he relocated to Brussels before World War II. He became a leading expert on 19th-century photography and conceptual art. He is best known for his role as the primary curator of the Howard Gilman Paper Company Collection, which was eventually acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2005. Apraxine served as an advisor to industrialist Howard Gilman and was instrumental in building one of the world's most significant private holdings of photographs.[1,2,4]
Themes
- photography collecting
- 19th-century photography
Books
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The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occultauthor
Works by Pierre Apraxine
- The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult 2005 · Yale University Press · book · English ISBN 978-0-300-11136-1
- The Image to Come: Memoirs of a Collector 2023 · book · English Autobiography
Exhibitions
- 2004 Le 3ème oeil – photographie et l’occulte / A Perfect Medium – Photography and the Occult Maison Européenne de la Photographie / Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paris / New York group