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'''Joshua Mann Pailet''' is a [[art dealer|dealer]] and [[art collector|collector]] of [[fine-art photography]], a [[documentary photography|documentary photographer]], and the proprietor of [https://agallery.com/ A Gallery for Fine Photography] in [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]]. As a [[photographer]], Pailet documents once-in-a-lifetime events such as the [[American Freedom Train|1976 American Freedom Train]]<ref name="WWL"></ref>, the [[1984 World's Fair]]<ref></ref> and the [[Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans|aftermath and devastation]] of [[Hurricane Katrina]] in [[Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans|New Orleans]].<ref name="Rebirth"></ref> He opened [https://agallery.com/ A Gallery for Fine Photography] in 1973, making it one of the first [[art galleries]] to be devoted solely to [[fine-art photography]].<ref name="AGFP"></ref>
== Early life ==
Joshua Mann Pailet was born June 30, 1950 in [[New Orleans]], the son of Charlotte Mann Pailet and Gustave Pailet. His mother was born in 1924 in [[Brno]], [[Czechoslovakia]] to a [[Jewish]] family, and was the only member of her immediate family to survive the [[Holocaust]]<ref name="NOMA"></ref> after she was rescued along with 668 other children as part of the [[Kindertransport]] effort organized by [[Sir Nicholas Winton]].<ref name="High"></ref> Pailet's parents met in [[London]] at the end of [[World War II]] – his mother was working as a [[nurse]] and his father was a [[United States Army]] Lieutenant – and moved to [[America]] to Gustave's birthplace, [[New Orleans]], in 1945.<ref name="NOMA" /> The family then moved to [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], where Pailet lived before attending [[Rice University]], graduating with [[Bachelor's degrees]] in [[Accounting]] and [[Economics]] in 1973.<ref name="64 Parishes"></ref> At [[Rice University]] Pailet was first exposed to [[photography]] under the tutelage of [[Eve Sonneman]], and was mentored by world-renowned [[private collection|art collectors]] [[John de Menil|John]] and [[Dominique de Menil]] of the [[Menil Collection]].<ref name="64 Parishes" /> After his graduation, Pailet then returned to his birthplace of [[New Orleans]] and opened [https://agallery.com/ A Gallery for Fine Photography] that same year.<ref name="NOMA" />
== A Gallery for Fine Photography ==
A Gallery held its first exhibition in 1975 featuring the work of master [[landscape]] [[photographer]] [[Ansel Adams]],<ref name="64 Parishes" /> whose influence Pailet says "shaped me ... and I began collecting photography in the early 1970s."<ref></ref> Four years later, Pailet and A Gallery became founding members of [http://bit.ly/2Kp8XTW AIPAD, the Association of International Photography Art Dealers].<ref></ref> The gallery went on to represent world-renowned [[photographers]] such as [[Henri Cartier-Bresson]],<ref></ref> [[Helmut Newton]],<ref name="Newton">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> [[Sandy Skoglund]],<ref></ref> [[Joel-Peter Witkin]],<ref></ref> [[Herman Leonard]],<ref></ref> [[Sebastiao Salgado]],<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> [[Elliott Erwitt]],<ref></ref>, [[Ruth Bernhard]], [[Peter Beard]],<ref></ref> [[Danny Lyon]],<ref></ref> [[Jessica Lange]],<ref></ref> and many more. Pailet and A Gallery have been staunch supporters of the [[New Orleans]] [[photography]] community – especially in the aftermath of [[Hurricane Katrina]], when they were instrumental to the founding of the [http://bit.ly/2UMZlGD New Orleans Photo Alliance] and [https://photonola.org/ PhotoNOLA], [[New Orleans]]' annual festival of [[photography]] – and currently represent many [[New Orleans]]-based [[photographers]] such as [http://bit.ly/1O48W0G Josephine Sacabo], [http://bit.ly/2UHgrWt Louviere+Vanessa], [http://www.bendepp.com/ Ben Depp], and [http://bit.ly/2Kp8ZLy Richard Sexton].<ref name="Post">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
== Documentary Photography ==
In addition to his career as a [[art dealer|gallerist]], Pailet has established himself as a well-known [[documentary photographer]] with work in the collections of the [[Smithsonian Institute]], the [[Library of Congress]], the [[Polk Museum of Art]] and the [[Menil Collection]].<ref name=Post /><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> After shooting "a [[photographic film|roll of film]] per day for nearly forty years," Pailet has amassed an archive of more than "150,000 black-and-white [[negative (photography)|negatives]] and 250,000 [[Kodachrome]] slides" featuring subjects such as "People, places, things, and once in a lifetime events; [[steam engine]], performers, music, festivals, [[jazz funeral|jazz funerals]], the [[1984 World's Fair]], streets, and characters of [[New York City]], [[New Orleans]], [[San Francisco]], [[London]], [[Paris]], and [[Prague]]."<ref name="64 Parishes /> In 1976, Pailet was invited to photograph the [[American Freedom Train]] as it made its cross-country journey; Pailet's trip produced 15,000 images, a selection of which was published in the book ''All Aboard, America.''"<ref name="64 Parishes /> Pailet's next major body of work focused on the [[1984 World's Fair]] in [[New Orleans]], the last [[world's fair]] to be held in the [[United States]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> Pailet's series "focused on the rebuilding of downtown [[New Orleans]] from 1980 to 1985, and the transformation of a riverfront warehouse site into the [[1984 Louisiana World Exposition]]" and was reproduced in the 1987 book ''[https://amzn.to/2KnfjTK The World's Fair, New Orleans].''<ref name="64 Parishes" />
In August 2005, when [[Hurricane Katrina]] made landfall in [[New Orleans]], Pailet remained at his gallery, which fortunately survived undamaged.<ref></ref> He remained in [[New Orleans]] for [[Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans|the storm's aftermath]] and rebuilding efforts,<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> and captured what he saw in [[photographs]] that would be later be exhibited together on the storm's 10th anniversary as ''Joshua Mann Pailet: Recover, Rebuild, Rebirth.''<ref name="Rebirth" /> In 2010, Pailet's work was exhibited in a [[retrospective]] at the [[Polk Museum of Art]] in [[Lakeland, Florida]] titled ''[http://bit.ly/2UMZppR Eye See America: Through the Lens of Joshua Mann Pailet].'' Together with museum [[curator]] Adam Justice and board member Robert Puterbaugh, Pailet "combed through thousands of images, ... most of which had never been printed for display ... [and] whittled the images from several thousand to 1,500 and finally to 66."<ref name="Polk">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> The [[exhibition]] ran at the museum from October 2010 through January 2011.
== References ==
== Early life ==
Joshua Mann Pailet was born June 30, 1950 in [[New Orleans]], the son of Charlotte Mann Pailet and Gustave Pailet. His mother was born in 1924 in [[Brno]], [[Czechoslovakia]] to a [[Jewish]] family, and was the only member of her immediate family to survive the [[Holocaust]]<ref name="NOMA"></ref> after she was rescued along with 668 other children as part of the [[Kindertransport]] effort organized by [[Sir Nicholas Winton]].<ref name="High"></ref> Pailet's parents met in [[London]] at the end of [[World War II]] – his mother was working as a [[nurse]] and his father was a [[United States Army]] Lieutenant – and moved to [[America]] to Gustave's birthplace, [[New Orleans]], in 1945.<ref name="NOMA" /> The family then moved to [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], where Pailet lived before attending [[Rice University]], graduating with [[Bachelor's degrees]] in [[Accounting]] and [[Economics]] in 1973.<ref name="64 Parishes"></ref> At [[Rice University]] Pailet was first exposed to [[photography]] under the tutelage of [[Eve Sonneman]], and was mentored by world-renowned [[private collection|art collectors]] [[John de Menil|John]] and [[Dominique de Menil]] of the [[Menil Collection]].<ref name="64 Parishes" /> After his graduation, Pailet then returned to his birthplace of [[New Orleans]] and opened [https://agallery.com/ A Gallery for Fine Photography] that same year.<ref name="NOMA" />
== A Gallery for Fine Photography ==
A Gallery held its first exhibition in 1975 featuring the work of master [[landscape]] [[photographer]] [[Ansel Adams]],<ref name="64 Parishes" /> whose influence Pailet says "shaped me ... and I began collecting photography in the early 1970s."<ref></ref> Four years later, Pailet and A Gallery became founding members of [http://bit.ly/2Kp8XTW AIPAD, the Association of International Photography Art Dealers].<ref></ref> The gallery went on to represent world-renowned [[photographers]] such as [[Henri Cartier-Bresson]],<ref></ref> [[Helmut Newton]],<ref name="Newton">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> [[Sandy Skoglund]],<ref></ref> [[Joel-Peter Witkin]],<ref></ref> [[Herman Leonard]],<ref></ref> [[Sebastiao Salgado]],<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> [[Elliott Erwitt]],<ref></ref>, [[Ruth Bernhard]], [[Peter Beard]],<ref></ref> [[Danny Lyon]],<ref></ref> [[Jessica Lange]],<ref></ref> and many more. Pailet and A Gallery have been staunch supporters of the [[New Orleans]] [[photography]] community – especially in the aftermath of [[Hurricane Katrina]], when they were instrumental to the founding of the [http://bit.ly/2UMZlGD New Orleans Photo Alliance] and [https://photonola.org/ PhotoNOLA], [[New Orleans]]' annual festival of [[photography]] – and currently represent many [[New Orleans]]-based [[photographers]] such as [http://bit.ly/1O48W0G Josephine Sacabo], [http://bit.ly/2UHgrWt Louviere+Vanessa], [http://www.bendepp.com/ Ben Depp], and [http://bit.ly/2Kp8ZLy Richard Sexton].<ref name="Post">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
== Documentary Photography ==
In addition to his career as a [[art dealer|gallerist]], Pailet has established himself as a well-known [[documentary photographer]] with work in the collections of the [[Smithsonian Institute]], the [[Library of Congress]], the [[Polk Museum of Art]] and the [[Menil Collection]].<ref name=Post /><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> After shooting "a [[photographic film|roll of film]] per day for nearly forty years," Pailet has amassed an archive of more than "150,000 black-and-white [[negative (photography)|negatives]] and 250,000 [[Kodachrome]] slides" featuring subjects such as "People, places, things, and once in a lifetime events; [[steam engine]], performers, music, festivals, [[jazz funeral|jazz funerals]], the [[1984 World's Fair]], streets, and characters of [[New York City]], [[New Orleans]], [[San Francisco]], [[London]], [[Paris]], and [[Prague]]."<ref name="64 Parishes /> In 1976, Pailet was invited to photograph the [[American Freedom Train]] as it made its cross-country journey; Pailet's trip produced 15,000 images, a selection of which was published in the book ''All Aboard, America.''"<ref name="64 Parishes /> Pailet's next major body of work focused on the [[1984 World's Fair]] in [[New Orleans]], the last [[world's fair]] to be held in the [[United States]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> Pailet's series "focused on the rebuilding of downtown [[New Orleans]] from 1980 to 1985, and the transformation of a riverfront warehouse site into the [[1984 Louisiana World Exposition]]" and was reproduced in the 1987 book ''[https://amzn.to/2KnfjTK The World's Fair, New Orleans].''<ref name="64 Parishes" />
In August 2005, when [[Hurricane Katrina]] made landfall in [[New Orleans]], Pailet remained at his gallery, which fortunately survived undamaged.<ref></ref> He remained in [[New Orleans]] for [[Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans|the storm's aftermath]] and rebuilding efforts,<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> and captured what he saw in [[photographs]] that would be later be exhibited together on the storm's 10th anniversary as ''Joshua Mann Pailet: Recover, Rebuild, Rebirth.''<ref name="Rebirth" /> In 2010, Pailet's work was exhibited in a [[retrospective]] at the [[Polk Museum of Art]] in [[Lakeland, Florida]] titled ''[http://bit.ly/2UMZppR Eye See America: Through the Lens of Joshua Mann Pailet].'' Together with museum [[curator]] Adam Justice and board member Robert Puterbaugh, Pailet "combed through thousands of images, ... most of which had never been printed for display ... [and] whittled the images from several thousand to 1,500 and finally to 66."<ref name="Polk">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> The [[exhibition]] ran at the museum from October 2010 through January 2011.
== References ==
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