Thanks to everyone for making this year’s auction great — the artists, buyers, galleries, volunteers, board, staff, and more, especially MC Cate Brennan!  We’ll miss you Michael, the original MC. Keep in touch. See you at the Keeping Time opening in less than 2 weeks and of course, next year.

The time is here… Get your tickets and bids in now and come out and support the PRC in its largest and most important fundraiser of the year.

This is an elegant and fun event - the food by East meets West is excellent and plentiful, it includes all refreshments, dessert, coffee, and even parking (just rsvp before). And of course you also get fantastic company, a beautiful art deco space, and the opportunity to walk home with an amazing photograph (and did I mention all of them come framed?). Ticket info is below.

Preview the catalogue by clicking above or here. For those not in town, absentee bids can be taken on any item, live or silent. I’ll get my pencil ready! See you Saturday.

TICKETS: $70 per person, member; $75 per non-member.

This includes one copy of the auction catalogue, one paddle, buffet from East Meets West, beverages, and parking with advance reservations. Contact Cate Brennan at 617.975.0600 for tickets, reservations, and bids. Mastercard, Visa, checks, cash accepted.

AUCTION: Saturday, October 25, 2008
808 Gallery at 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

Reception and silent auction begins at 5:30pm; Live auction begins at 7:00pm

THIS SATURDAY!, close to 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction to benefit the PRC. Above is one of the amazing images on which you can bid.  Click here or on the above image for more information.

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Bill Boch, Sea Chaise, 2007, Pigment Inkjet Print, 17×11 1/2 inches,  Edition 1/10, Signed recto.

Next Saturday, close to 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction to benefit the PRC. Above is one of the amazing images on which you can bid. Keep checking back to see more auction images. Click here or on the above image for more information.

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Claire Beckett, Private Dan Floyd, at Basic Training,  Fort Knox, KY, 2007, from the series “Stimulating Irag,” 2007/2008, Archival Inkjet Print,  17×22 inches, Edition 2/5, Signed Verso

This fall, close to 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction to benefit the PRC. Above is one of the amazing images on which you can bid. Keep checking back to see more auction images. Click here or on the above image for more information.

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Mark Sandrof, Motorcycle Man, 1974/2002, Gelatin Silver Print, 14×18 inches, not Editioned, Signed verso.

This fall, close to 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction to benefit the PRC. Above is one of the amazing images on which you can bid. Keep checking back to see more auction images. Click here or on the above image for more information.

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Karl Baden, St. Patrick’s Day, Boston, 2005, Gelatin Silver Print, 22×8 1/2 inches, Signed Verso.

This fall, close to 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction to benefit the PRC. Above is one of the amazing images on which you can bid. Keep checking back to see more auction images. Click here or on the above image for more information.

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Rick Ashley, Untitled, 2006/2008, Inkjet Print, 13 2/5×20 inches, Signed Verso

This fall, close to 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction to benefit the PRC. Above is one of the amazing images on which you can bid. Keep checking back to see more auction images. Click here or on the above image for more information.

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Eleanor Steinadler, Woods, Rahcele Carson Preserve, WElls, ME, 2006/2006, Gelatin Silver Print, 12×18 inches, Edition 1/15, Signed Verso.

This fall, close to 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction to benefit the PRC. Above is one of the amazing images on which you can bid. Keep checking back to see more auction images. Click here or on the above image for more information.

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Robert Jaffe, Evening, Wazir Khan Mosque, Lahore, 2008, Archival Inkjet Print, 16 1/2×12 1/2 inches, Edition 3/12, Signed verso.

This fall, close to 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction to benefit the PRC. Above is one of the amazing images on which you can bid. Keep checking back to see more auction images. Click here or on the above image for more information.

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Jesseca Ferguson, Woman/Two Hands (Constructed), 2001/2001, Collage incorporating pinhole platinum/ palladium print, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 x 1/8 inches, Unique Collage, Signed Verso.

This fall, close to 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction to benefit the PRC. Above is one of the amazing images on which you can bid. Keep checking back to see more auction images. Click here or on the above image for more information.

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Wally Gilbert, Still LIfe - Orknay, 2007, Archival Inkjet Print, 19×13 inches, Edition 2/10, Signed recto on matt.

This fall, close to 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction to benefit the PRC. Above is one of the amazing images on which you can bid. Keep checking back to see more auction images. Click here or on the above image for more information.

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Yoav Horesh, Mediterranean Sea (Tarifa) 2005, 2005/2008, Archival Inkjet Print, 11x 30 inches, Edition 1/9, signed verso.

This fall, close to 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction to benefit the PRC. Above is one of the amazing images on which you can bid. Keep checking back to see more auction images. Click here or on the above image for more information.

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Lindsay Book, Johnny Blazes, 2007/2008, C-Print, 19 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches, Signed verso

Pulitzer-prize winning Boston Globe critic Mark Feeney paid us a visit last week.  This Monday, his review of the PRC Portfolio exhibition ran, and it’s a super one!  Thanks so much Mark, we are glad you enjoyed it!

You can preview the portfolio in the PRC gallery through this Sunday, September 14th, or in the online site for this collecting opportunity.  We have been contemplating showing the portfolio in other venues and sharing it with more people, and I think Mark seconds that emotion.  Here are a couple of good quotes below, but you can read the rest by clicking here.

Which means one of the year’s best shows has what must be the year’s shortest run….

The nicest bit of hanging in the exhibition plays off of color. Ralph Gibson’s “Bahia” shows a window through which we glimpse a rectangular slice of impossibly blue tropical sky. It’s so elemental it could be a Barnett Newman abstraction. Across the room, at an angle (like the window), is McPhee’s “Irrigator’s Tarp Directing Water, Fourth of July Creek Ranch, Custer County, Idaho.” Phenomenally gray and threatening clouds dominate the image, but what jumps out is the tarpaulin. It’s a darker but no less vivid blue than Gibson’s Brazilian sky. Samba meets C&W in a duet of blueness.

Sussex, Brazil, Idaho (Carlisle, too): many roads lead to the PRC’s space on Comm. Ave., at least photographically. There’s an easy balance between elsewhere and here. Lalla Essaydi goes to North Africa for “Les Femmes du Maroc #45″ and Dow ventures below the Rio Grande for “All Night Taco Stand, Av. Gustavo Baz Prada, El Country, Naucalpan, Estado de Mexico” (its lighting conjures up a south-of-the-border version of Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks”). Conversely, Sohier, the one photographer with a picture in both portfolios, offers “British Redcoat re-enactor, Battle of Concord and Lexington, Lexington, MA.” It amusingly - and disorientingly - joins past to present. An alternate title could have been “Musket Meets Subdivision.”

READ MORE HERE

This fall, close to 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction to benefit the PRC. Above is one of the amazing images on which you can bid. Keep checking back to see more auction images. Click here or on the above image for more information.

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Jason Landry, Mirrored Hands, Paris, 2007, 2007/2008, Archival Inkjet, 14 1/2 x14 1/2 inches, Edition 2/15, Signed Verso

This fall, close to 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction to benefit the PRC. Above is one of the amazing images on which you can bid. Keep checking back to see more auction images. Click here or on the above image for more information.

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Susan Lewinnek, Saira, 2007, Archival Inkjet, 7 7/8 x12 inches, Edition 1/2, signed recto

This fall, close to 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction to benefit the PRC. Above is one of the amazing images on which you can bid. Keep checking back to see more auction images. Click here or on the above image for more information.

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Jim Dow, Kansas City Royal’s Stadium, 1982, C-Print, 10×24 inches, Edition 8/40, signed verso, courtesy of Robert Klein Gallery

This fall, close to 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction to benefit the PRC. Above is one of the amazing images on which you can bid. Keep checking back to see more auction images. Click here or on the above image for more information.

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Talia Chetrit, Grayscale, 2007/2008, Archival Inkjet, 16×20 inches, Edition 1/4, signed verso

This fall, close to 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction to benefit the PRC. Above is one of the amazing images on which you can bid. Keep checking back to see more auction images. Click here or on the above image for more information.

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Jon Edwards, Eggs, 2005/2007, Selenium Toned Gelatin Silver Print, 10×10 inches, Edition 7/25, Signed Verso

This fall, close to 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction to benefit the PRC. Above is one of the amazing images on which you can bid. Keep checking back to see more auction images. Click here or on the above image for more information.

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Guillermo Srodek-Hart, The House of 1000 Souvenirs, 2006 Archival Inkjet, 11×14 inches, Edition1/5, signed verso