Aimee Pflieger loves discovering connections between seemingly disparate subjects, and pulling at the threads that photography has woven through culture since its invention.
Aimee Pflieger has over 25 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.
At Sotheby’s, she has had a hand in numerous important sales, including Robert Frank: The Americans, The Ruth and Jake Bloom Collection; A Beautiful Life: Photographs from the Collection of Leland Hirsch; and Photographs from the Ginny Williams Collection; The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks; and Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations, which achieved over 13 million dollars and ranks as the 3rd highest single-owner sale of photographs ever staged.
Since 2014, Pflieger has appeared 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.
Portrait by Ian Trimmer Rutter.
Follow our journey down the rabbit holes of photo history.
