photo 17: a photo auction to benefit the aids monument

PHOTO17 hosted by Milk Studios Celebrates the 3rd Annual Photography Auction to Benefit STORIES: the AIDS Memorial Monument West Hollywood
Special Live Performance by Rufus WainwrightPHOTO17
Thursday, October 5th @ 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Milk Studios
855 N Cahuenga Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038

Tickets Available for sale: Click here.

Milk Studios, for the third consecutive year, will host PHOTO17, the annual photography auction to benefit STORIES:

Sharon Stone will once again serve as Event Honorary Chair.

100% of the proceeds from Photo17 benefit STORIES: The AIDS Monument and the Foundation for The AIDS Monument. The foundation is in the final phase of a $5 million fundraising campaign to build The AIDS Monument designed by Daniel Tobin of the Urban Art Projects.

The auction will feature live and silent auctions of photographs from collectors and galleries. 

Photo: Sly Stone & Kathy Silva, Los Angeles 1974, by Norman Seef

This year’s auction features photos of Jessica Lange taken by Antonio Lopez, the 80s fashion illustration icon. The photos, taken in Paris in 1978, are part of the noted fashion illustrator’s estate collection, and are not available for purchase — but have been entrusted to the Foundation for the AIDS Monument in Antonio’s memory. This year’s auction will also feature extraordinary images of Sly Stone, Debbie Harry and Andy Warhol by Norman Seef, including those noted here. The Herb Ritts Foundation has also donated rare, signed Herb Ritts photographs.

Event Committee: Bobby Heller (OPUS), Willie Maldonado (Milk Studios), Laura Watts (Honor Fraser), Pat Lanza (Annenberg Center for Photography), Bianca Chen (JF Chen), Lane and Linda Janger, Paris Chong (Leica Gallery), Michael Shulman (Shulman Foundation), Claudia Bartlett-James (Photo LA) Charles Hannah (Norman Seef Studios), Maureen Keveany, (Milk Studios), Brian Ferrick, Chris Davies (Fabrik Media), and Pete Franciosa (United Talent Agency), Jennifer Pinto, Michael Ferrera (FAM Executive Director) and John Gile.

Major donors to the Monument Foundation include Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Visit West Hollywood, The Guess Foundation, Elton John AIDS Foundation, MAC AIDS Fund, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, and CAA partners Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane.

Cocktail reception hosted by Milk Studios.
100% of the net proceeds benefit the Foundation for the AIDS Monument – www.aidsmonument.org

VIP HOST Tickets: $1,000
VIP Ticket: $250
General Admission Tickets: $150 (early bird until Sept 19)
Tickets Available for sale: Click here.