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Sarasota News Leader December 28, 2012 The Fredric Snitzer Gallery is not alone in reserving material exclusively for Art Basel. Howard Greenberg, owner of the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City, which specializes in 20th century and contemporary photography, also used this year���s exhibition to debut some pieces to the world. Page 92 Among the new pieces to which Greenberg was referring were those by artists Ed Burtynsky and Joel Meyerowitz, while some of the vintage photographs were by William Klein. Mary Davidson, vice president of the Max Davidson Gallery, also located in New York City, explained to the News Leader the rationale behind the selectivity of galleries exhibiting at ���In this fair, we lean a little bit more towards Art Basel, which she described as ���this wonderful creature that attracts everybody from contemporary, because we think it���s the right all over the world.��� thing to bring,��� he told the News Leader. ���We���re bringing some new work by some im- The fair, she said, ���demands [the best]. The collectors that come here demand [the best]. portant photographers, things that haven���t So we think all year about what we���re going been seen before and some really great vin- to bring here and some things we keep espetage photographs as well.��� cially for it.��� Pieces on display in the Haunch of Venison exhibition at Art Miami on Dec. 8: (foreground) Kevin Francis Gray���s 2012 sculpture Temporal Sitter, constructed from polished bronze and Bardigilio marble; (background) Chiharu Shiota���s 2012 piece State of Being (Wedding Kimono), constructed from metal, kimono and black thread.