The Expert Eye Podcast
1) Episode 35: Dogs Behaving Badly
In the summer of 2025, Aimee participated in the 30th season of PBS’ beloved program, Antiques Roadshow. As a volunteer appraiser, it’s always exciting to see what viewers bring to the show. This time...Show More
2) Episode 34: A Conversation with Rick Wester
In my continuing series of conversations with people who have shaped the Photographs market, I move back to focusing on the auction world. I sat down with Rick Wester, who, in addition to being a pri...Show More
3) Episode 33: Twist Endings
Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s series of photographs featuring his family in unexpected places and costumes are hard to describe but entirely captivating. He found inspiration for a series of photographs fro...Show More
4) Episode 32: Avery on the Log
In 1853, photographer Platt Babbitt made a chilling daguerreotype of a man named Joseph Avery, who had been stuck on a tree branch in the middle of the rushing rapids near the edge of Niagara Falls fo...Show More
5) Episode 31: A Conversation with Leland Rice, Part II
In the second half of my conversation with curator, educator, and photographer Leland Rice, he talks about two major exhibitions that he worked on for two photographers whose work he greatly admired-F...Show More
6) Episode 30: Post-Sale Wrap Up with Aimee and Emily
Despite a raging head cold, Aimee barrels through to give you want you want: a discussion with Emily Bierman that covers the stellar results of the sale of Ansel Adams, A Legacy: Photographs from the ...Show More
7) Episode 29: A Conversation with Denise Bethel, Part II
In this long awaited second interview with former Chairman of Sotheby’s Photographs, Denise Bethel, she and Aimee talk about her long career at Sotheby’s and the many treasures she handled, challenges...Show More
8) Episode 28: A Conversation with Leland Rice
This is the first part of a conversation between Aimee Pflieger and Leland Rice on May 19, 2024. Here, he details his first exposure to photography, his experiences both as a student and as an instruc...Show More
9) Episode 27: The Untitled One
How important are names? How important are titles of photographs? In this episode Aimee identifies 3 major ways that things become mistitled and how they can make a significant difference in the ways ...Show More
10) Episode 26: A Conversation with Susan Kismaric
In this episode, Aimee sits down with Susan Kismaric, who started working in the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976 after a stint at the LIFE Picture Collection. She has curate...Show More