Aimee Pflieger loves discovering connections between seemingly disparate subjects, and pulling at the threads that photography has woven through culture since its invention.
In this podcast, she talks about photographs she’s handled during her career (as well as ones she hopes to someday), drawing out the hidden stories behind the images and illuminating the hidden histories of photography.
Aimee Pflieger has over 20 years of experience working in galleries and auction houses in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York.
She began her career cataloguing photographs in the Works on Paper department at Indiana University’s Eskenazi Museum of Art while earning her Master’s Degree in Art History. A winding road led her to Sotheby’s, where she acts as Specialist in the Photographs department.
Pflieger also appears as an expert on the long-running television program Antiques Roadshow, for which she appraised the highest-valued photographs in the program’s history.
Producer Iván Suro and Aimee podcast from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
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This tintype portrait was made by Lumiere Photography in Austin, Texas.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Vice President, Senior Specialist, Sotheby’s, New York, 2015-present
Head of Department, Photographs and Photobooks and Senior Specialist, Modern and Contemporary Art, Freeman’s, Philadelphia, 2008-2014
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, 2006-2008
Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, 2002-2006
Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago, 2001-2002
EDUCATION
M.A., Modern American Art, Indiana University, 2001
B.A., History of Art, Indiana University, 1999
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Advisory Board, The Philadelphia Print Center, 2017 - present
Photography Expert, PBS’ Antiques Roadshow, 2014 – present
Follow our journey down the rabbit holes of photo history.
