{"id":4484,"date":"2013-06-09T14:37:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T21:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2013-06-17T15:06:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T22:06:42","slug":"40-years-of-art-history-in-65-boxes-of-transparencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/09\/40-years-of-art-history-in-65-boxes-of-transparencies\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Years of Art History in 65 Boxes of Transparencies"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The NY Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

He Captured Modern Art, and Now Is Letting It Go<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0DAVID W. DUNLAP<\/a><\/p>\n

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Help yourself to D. James Dee\u2019s luscious, sprawling photographic archive of the modern New York art scene. He has about 250,000 color transparencies and slides, ranging in size from 35 millimeter to 8 by 10 inches, documenting the work of almost every important artist of the last 40 years and installations at some of the most influential galleries. And, yes, he\u2019s giving them away.<\/p>\n

All you\u2019ll need is a truck large enough to hold 65 cardboard file boxes. It would help if you represent a nonprofit organization, because Mr. Dee hopes to receive a tax deduction for donating his life\u2019s work. But that\u2019s not a deal breaker. You should, however, be conversant with modern American art history.\u00a0Really<\/em>\u00a0conversant.<\/p>\n

Almost none of the transparencies and slides are labeled.<\/p>\n

Mr. Dee, 68, has retired after a 39-year career as the\u00a0SoHo Photographer<\/a>, documenting work for artists, galleries, exhibitions, books and portfolios. He is leasing his space at 12 Wooster Street, just north of Canal Street, and moving with his wife, Sarala, to Miami. The moving vans will arrive on July 24. The photo collection will not come with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has value to someone,\u201d Mr. Dee said last week. \u201cNot to me.\u201d The absence of captions and a lack of storage space have discouraged several institutions from accepting the archive. The National Gallery of Art, Getty Images, and the Fales Library and Special Collections of New York University have declined his offer, Mr. Dee said.<\/p>\n

With that, he illustrated the strengths and weaknesses of an unlabeled archive by pulling stacks of 4-inch-by-5-inch transparencies from a box marked \u201c1984-85 Trans.\u201d and dealing them like playing cards onto a light table, identifying each one as best he could:<\/p>\n

\u201cBasquiat. Julian Schnabel. Don\u2019t know. There was an artist, Mierle Ukeles; this was an installation she had at the sanitation transfer station. Joel Shapiro. Basquiat. I remember doing this shoot, but I don\u2019t remember the artist. This is a Frank Gehry. Joel Shapiro. Nam June Paik. This was for the Chase Bank; it\u2019s 45 feet long. Oh, who\u2019s the artist? Vincent Arcilesi. This, I have no idea. I like it, though. I like it. This is probably an installation; it\u2019s subversive enough, it could be Ronald Feldman.\u201d<\/p>\n

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