The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection | Christie's

More than 100 evocative, surreal, at times erotic, sometimes horrific images are gathered together here yielding a singular and spectacular cumulative result. Gathered over the course of thirty years by New York collector W. M. Hunt, The Unseen Eye includes works by 20th century masters including Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Lee Friedlander, William Klein, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Robert Frank, as well as lesser-known photographers and vernacular images. Hunt’s collecting impulse, honed over decades, led to a rich picture of humanity, from birth (Diane Arbus’s portrait of Anderson Cooper as a toddler) to death (Frederick Evan’s death mask of Beethoven, as a platinum print.) W. M. Hunt is a frequent lecturer on the art of collecting and an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts, New York. An earlier exhibition of this collection launched to critical acclaim at the Rencontres d’Arles Photographie in 2005 before traveling to the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, and FOAM, Amsterdam. Browse full collection: https://ift.tt/2Gq2wyG -- Subscribe to Christie's YouTube: http://goo.gl/Vmh7Hf Sign up to Christie's Weekly: https://goo.gl/kc8qpV Follow Christie's on: Facebook: https://ift.tt/2elC9Zg Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristiesInc Instagram: https://ift.tt/2iJ3lGm Pinterest: https://ift.tt/2elCafM