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PhotoAlley.com Launches Online Charity Auctions
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| All Proceeds From The First Auction Of An Original John Sexton Photograph To Be Donated To The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (INTERNET WIRE) -- 12/21/2000 -- PhotoAlley.com, one of the fastest growing photographic destination sites on the Internet, announces the first PhotoAlley Charity Auction of fine art original photographs by professional photographers on the PhotoAlley.com Web site. All proceeds from the inaugural auction of a 16x20-inch John Sexton original photograph will go to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
"PhotoAlley's Content and Community is all about sharing the joy of photography, so it is also fitting that we share through charity," said Skip Cohen, president of PhotoAlley, Inc. "This gives us an opportunity to utilize this vital medium to support worthy causes while at the same time rallying the photo community to get involved in doing something important."
This 16x20-inch, archivally processed black-and-white photograph is the cover image from Sexton's new book entitled Places of Power. It has been hand printed by John Sexton, and is signed by the photographer. The print is mounted and overmatted on 22x28-inch 100% rag archival museum board. John Sexton’s images of this size regularly sell in galleries for $1,000, and his earlier works are already becoming collector’s items. Bidding will begin on December 20, 2000 and will be held through private emails, with the high bids regularly updated on the site (www.photoalley.com/pa/communityAuction.cfm). Bidders are kept anonymous. Bidding ends at 11:59 PST on January 31, 2001. The winning bid will also receive a signed copy of John Sexton's new book Places of Power.
About John Sexton
John Sexton was born in 1953, and resides in Carmel Valley, California. Respected as a photographer, master printmaker and workshop instructor, he is best known for his luminous, quiet photographs of natural environment. Recently he has been exploring the aesthetics of humankind's technology, from ancient Anasazi sites in the Southwestern United States to the Space Shuttle. This work is included in his book entitled Places of Power, currently available on the PhotoAlley.com site. His photographs are included in permanent collections, exhibitions, and publications throughout the world.
About The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation is the leading worldwide nonprofit organization dedicated to identifying, funding, and conducting pediatric HIV/AIDS research. Since 1988, the Foundation has raised more than $115 million to ensure that children are at the forefront of every scientific breakthrough. In addition, the Foundation supports pediatric research into more effective treatments, vaccine development, and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
Through stimulating and catalyzing collaborative and focused scientific research and by better understanding how diseases are interconnected, the Foundation improves the health and lives of children around the world. The Foundation also takes a leadership role in establishing a national pediatric research agenda, as well as promoting global education, awareness and compassion about HIV/AIDS in children. To further the battle to do more for more children, it created the Glaser Pediatric Research Network to discover new therapies for a wide variety of life-threatening diseases in addition to HIV and AIDS. For more information on the foundation, visit www.pedaids.org.
About PhotoAlley, Inc.
Launched in the fourth quarter of 1999, PhotoAlley is creating the ultimate destination site to help people take better pictures. PhotoAlley is an authorized dealer of top brand cameras, both digital and traditional, as well as a huge selection of peripheral equipment and supplies. In addition to PhotoAlley's wide selection of name brand photographic products, the site now features over 430 articles and product reviews from Petersen's PHOTOgraphic and Photo District News, galleries by some of the country's leading photographers and an extensive community center which includes hosted chat forums, photo contests and over 5,000 images posted on line by serious hobbyists in an exciting new feature called PhotoFeedback, where posted photos get critiqued by peers and professionals.
PhotoAlley maintains offices in San Francisco, California and Parsippany, New Jersey and is located online at www.photoalley.com and America Online Keyword: PhotoAlley.
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Contact: Jen Bidner
Company: PhotoAlley
Phone: 413-569-6166
Email: jbidner@photoalley.com
Contact: Steve Rosenbaum
Company: S.I.R. Marketing Communications, Inc.
Phone: 631-757-5665
Contact: Leigh Grimm
Company: S.I.R. Marketing Communications, Inc.
Phone: 631-757-5665
Email: leighgrimm@sironline.com
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