The second half of our photography highlights from the 2025 Armory Show can be found in the slideshow below. While it is certainly possible to jump right in, for broader background thoughts on this year’s fair and information on the structure of the slideshows, head back to Part 1 (here).


















Sean Kelly Gallery (here): This recent work by Awol Erizku features a black female face (apparently sourced from AI) projected atop a stem of orchid blossoms. The eyes peer out from the petals, reimagining the black body. Priced at $30000.
Sean Kelly Gallery (here): Upward views of ornate ceilings and domes are decently rare in Candida Höfer’s career, making this 2023 image of the Semperoper in Dresden all the more intriguing. The names of famous composers circle the center, placing musical excellence within a strict geometric form. Priced at €59000.
Edwynn Houk Gallery (here): Abelardo Morell has experimented with images of books and stacked papers several times in his career, so this new color work connects back to those earlier efforts. Here stacks of colored paper undulate like the eroded walls of an ancient cave, the light peeking in from behind. Priced at $26000.
Edwynn Houk Gallery (here): This 2023 image by Robert Polidori from Pompeii continues explorations that he began a few years earlier (as seen here). This picture crops a well-preserved fresco down to its trompe l’oeil sides, isolating the angelic figure floating in a cloudy sky of blue. Priced at $22000.
Edwynn Houk Gallery (here): This Gregory Crewdson supermarket parking lot image was made in the early 2000s, but looks remarkably rich and crisp due to an evolution in presentation choices over time, a recent pigment print taking the place of previous forms of facemounting. Priced at $125000.
Studio G7 (here): Clever gender-based wordplay enlivens this illusionistic bookcase setup by Daniela Comani. Each book title has been carefully modified or reversed, turning classics from various eras on their heads. Priced at $9200.
Huxley-Parlour (here): Daniel Gordon embraces subtle black-and-white tonalities in this standout new work playing with glass reflections and shadows. Gordon’s approach still centers on hand-crafting objects and setups out of paper, but the new “glass” vessels offer much more potential for transparency, distortion, and illusion than his previous jugs and vases. Priced at $8500.
Yossi Milo (here): Up close, this 2025 triptych by Meghann Riepenhoff dissolves into intricate feathers of ice crystals, her gestural washes frozen in place long enough to capture their detailed patterns in cyanotype. Water (from various sources) has long been an important collaborator for Riepenhoff, so it’s only natural that she would extend into the possibilities of ice as well. Priced at $70000.
Aki Gallery (here): Shen Chao-Liang’s series “Stage” captures carnival and attraction stages around the rural countryside of Taiwan, each unique setup photographed at twilight when the lights come on, but the people have yet to arrive. Here (in an image from 2014) fiery painted tendrils are balanced by nearby glowing ice cream cones, the deep blue of the sky adding a magically enveloping mood. Priced at $5500.
Galerie Myrtis (here): Bria Sterling-Wilson’s photocollages explore the nuances of black cultural traditions in the South. Here a couple stands in front of their home (in “American Gothic” style), with overlapped layers of textures and an American flag offering additional resonance and context. Priced at $3900.
Howard Greenberg Gallery (here): This booth was a solo presentation of the work of Baldwin Lee, whose photographs we considered in book form back in 2022 (here). This presentation follows similar pathways, with Lee’s consistent ability to deftly organize his compositions seen in this image of two kids standing on a front porch. Priced at $5000.
Ben Brown Fine Arts (here): A new series from Vik Muniz features enlarged painted “brushstrokes” as his raw material, in this case made by Van Gogh in his image “Oleanders”. Muniz has rebuilt the composition using the scanned brushstrokes, the gestural paper fragments amplifying the original movement of the painter’s brush. Priced at $50000.
Garth Greenan Gallery (here): This small 1960s photocollage by Rosalyn Drexler mixes found figures and high key Pop Art color, in the manner of her more famous paintings. Bold red and yellow bracket a man with a newspaper, isolating and amplifying an everyday gesture, giving it a psychological undertone. Priced at $25000.
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (here): This seething orange iris by Lisa Oppenheim is part of larger project which takes Edward Steichen (and his lesser known interest in flowers) as its inspiration. Steichen was an amateur botanist, and Oppenheim’s efforts re-imagine the now-extinct “Monsieur Steichen” iris, leveraging AI to create visual hybrids from related species. Oppenheim has then printed the resulting images as dye transfers (in a range of bold colors), a process that Steichen himself used in the 1930s and 1940s. Priced at $12000.
Southern Guild (here): This high contrast backlit lightbox image by Zanele Muholi takes her innovative self-portraiture away from creatively (and often symbolically) additive decoration and back toward more intimately pared down setups. Her dark nude form is casually balanced by the whiteness of the sheet, her relaxed pose elongated into elegant lines and angles. Priced at $31000.
Yancey Richardson (here): This 2024 image by David Alekhuogie blends a sculptural image of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti with the face of Elizabeth Taylor playing Cleopatra, building the resulting composition up from cardboard cutouts. His clamped hybrid creates a disorientingly unstable combination of female rulers and races, where the history refuses to resolve easily. Priced at $8500.
Pablo’s Birthday (here): This recent work by Thorsten Brinkmann continues his experimentation with found objects, mixing sculptural assemblages with actual surface attachments, creating an intriguing push and pull between two dimensional flatness and three-dimensional physicality. The shard of yellow is actually affixed on the surface of the print, casting its own shadow. Priced at $6600.
Galerie Ron Mandos (here): This large scale floral image by Sebastiaan Bremer (made in 2025) is covered in tiny dots and swirls of paint. The marks amplify the contours of the underlying book plate, twisting around the stems, following the curves of petals, and exploding into an exuberant dance of surface embellishment. Priced at $28000.