Stephen Daiter Gallery – One of rarest of Edward Westons, this picture “Nude on Dunes” was taken and printed at the height of his career in 1936. It had all the bells and whistles a collector would look for: signed, mounted, clear provenance.

Yumiko Chiba Associates – Norio Imai, “M.M.” from 1974. The Pop muse Marilyn Monroe is photographed with instant film, the print then stapled to the board, then done again. A contemporary conceptual exercise, with a final product reminiscent of a calendar.

Harper’s Books – “Artists and Photographs” produced by Mulitples Inc., an early Marian Goodman production. A compilation of photographic work from pioneer artists – Bruce Nauman, Dan Graham, Joseph Kosuth, Mel Bochner, Robert Smithson, Ed Ruscha, Douglas Huebler and others.

Vintage Gallery – My only purchase in the fair. Geza Perneczky was a Hungarian born Fluxus artist living in Cologne, Germany. I am most grateful to Attila Pocze for introducing me to this artist. The piece is a fine example of photography’s usage in art beyond the picture itself.

Richard Saltoun – Gina Pane’s “Azione Sentimentale” is a haunting and disturbing example of 70’s Body Art. These 16 vintage photographs document what is arguably Pane’s seminal piece. A pioneering woman still deep in the shadow of Marina Abramović.

Stevenson/Yancey Richardson – Zanele Muholi. I was most drawn to this earlier self portrait. Direct and firm, it is more reminiscent of August Sander and the perfect starting point for her most recent series.

Ben Brown – Awol Erizku. I want to read too much into this photograph. I want to believe it’s a great constructed masterpiece. The bedding emblematic of some esoteric folklore. The tube TV a reference to 90’s media. The model posed to reference a Greek goddess but totally contradicted by the yellow blanket at the foot of the bed.

Howard Greenberg Gallery – Harry Callahan’s silhouette of Eleanor. Straight up why you buy vintage. A relatively common image, this mounted print has simply heavenly whites words can’t describe. Listed as printed late 50’s/early 60’s, I would reckon it being made at the time of his El Mocheulo Gallery show.

Robert Klein Gallery – Gohar Dashti from her new series Stateless. On the wall label next to this picture were Dashti’s prescient words “In every corner of the world, devastations of war, massacre, oppression, disease and death are the cause of widespread human disorders with no imaginable ending. When disasters force people to migrate, where will they be welcomed with open arms? Hoping for a better life, they struggle in never-ending limbo, a strange place with an identity that does not belong to them. Maybe it is at this point that only nature can be a safe haven for these refugees.”

Musee’ L’Orangerie – Gertrude Käsebier was the clear star of “Qui a peur des femmes photographes? 1839 a 1919”. This extraordinary gum print was loaned from MoMA’s collection. A gritty and modernist viewing of life’s underbelly and a far departure from the subjects a woman typically photographed in the previous century.

Yann Le Mouel – Eugène Atget. I see Caillebotte’s The Floor Scrapers in this atmospheric representation of Parisian workers. The commanding foreman looming over the workers on their knees and the arrangement of bodies makes this image a masterpiece in my mind.

Galerie Julian Sander – Alfredo Srur. Julian featured Srur’s work prominently in a large grid on the center wall of his booth. The series focuses on workers in an area called Cuiddades del Estes at the tri-border of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. This image shows a bridge referencing the heavens but loaded with traffic and the long commute to find work.

Galerie Julian Sander – A new iPhone app that Julian has spent years developing for his gallery. It’s a novel and immediate way of saving a work of art to your phone and then seamlessly connecting to the gallery. I have a feeling we will see Julian’s technology at every art fair soon.

Instagram/Susan Tarasieve – Juergen Teller, Kim Kardashian. Loring alluded to this, and one only needed Instagram to find it.

Sotheby’s – This Bernd and Hilla Becher typology sold for a nearly half a million dollars, likely some record and deservingly so. They were large early prints with an almost gooey surface. Water towers are the perfect form for a Bechers document, but I loved the mess of the surroundings at the bottom of each “portrait”.

Christie’s – Cahun is most well known for her self portraits, but this is precisely the type of picture I want in my house to terrorize my friends’ dreams. Unfortunately, the Shalom Shpilman sale never finished due to the Friday night attacks.

Hans Kraus – Charles Nègre. This was the most exquisite piece at the fair for me. Nègre retrofitted his camera to make the “tondos” or rounds in direct reference to popular paintings of his contemporaries. Despite being a church, the image is completely in vogue with current tastes in 19th century work. It would have fit perfectly in the Modernism or Modernity show two or three years ago at the Petit Palais. All that that aside, the tones are just outrageous.