What Are We Going to Do with All These Photographs?

Estate and Other Issues with a Photographer's Archive

Edward Yee, Howard Greenberg, Jeff Rosenheim, Mary Engel,
Marc Jacobson, Denise Bethel, and Richard Halperin

APAG assembled a panel of distinguished experts to address critical issues for owners and managers of photography archives. The audience appreciated the panelists' candid and down-to-earth explanations of the appraisal process, photo galleries, museum exhibitions and collections, protection of copyright, the auction business, and estate planning. A lively question and answer session followed the formal remarks. Click on the links below to see excerpts of the panelists' remarks.

• Marc Jacobson - copyright [7:11]
• Richard Halperin - estate planning [6:20]
• Edward Yee - appraisals [6:08]
• Jeff Rosenheim - archives and museums [8:24]
• Howard Greenberg - what a gallery can do for an archive [10:45]

Mary Engel, daughter of Ruth Orkin and Morris Engel and founder of APAG, was the moderator. The panelists were Denise Bethel, Senior Vice President and Head of Photography, Sotheby's; Howard Greenberg, owner of the Howard Greenberg Gallery; Richard Halperin, co-author of the Art Law Handbook and an estate planning attorney with McLaughlin & Stern; Marc Jacobson, copyright attorney with Greenberg Traurig; Edward Yee, Appraiser, Penelope Dixon & Associates; and Jeff Rosenheim, Associate Curator of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The discussion was held on October 28, 2008 at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City.