Susan Todd-Raque provides art advisory services for private collectors, corporations and artists. Specializing in vintage 20th century photography and work by selected contemporary photographers, she brings a wealth of knowledge from over 20 years as an independent art collection consultant, curator, educator, appraiser and writer on the photographic arts, earning the respect of private and corporate collectors in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago and New York.

Following her business degree from DePaul University, Todd-Raque became a business manager in the music entertainment industry, offering financial and art investment advice to clients. Returning to her love of the visual arts, it was during her graduate work at Emory University that Todd-Raque learned the fine skill of appraising photography, the true meaning of vintage, and the value of art as an investment. Noted for her dynamic presentation style, she has been a guest lecturer on various aspects of collecting art for the Michael C. Carlos Museum and galerieMC, with the most recent lecture, Inspired Collecting, at the High Museum of Art.

As a founder of Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Todd-Raque created a forum and showcase for photography through an annual lecture series, public art initiative, and numerous activities, thus advancing the position of the photographic arts in the Southeast. Her community service also includes serving on the Board of Directors of Art Papers magazine and the Photo Forum support group at the High Museum of Art.

In September 2007, Todd-Raque curated Responding to Home, an exhibition featuring the work of Georgia artists, at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta; the show traveled in 2008 to the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, Florida.  Exhibitions curated in 2008 in Atlanta include: New York, New York: Work by Sylvia Plachy; You Ain't Wrong: An Archive by William Boling.  Upcoming exhibitions scheduled for 2009 are: Complete Desire: A Collaboration by William Boling and Corinne Vionnet; Photo Opportunities by Corinne Vionnet; Ten Jews Left by Jerry Siegel; Gathering Signs: New Photography by William Boling. In 2009 Todd-Raque co-produced with Christian Bradley-West the largest ACP 09 project, What's Happening Now: The Cell Phone Photography Project. Forty seven artists were included.

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featuring the work of Sylvia Plachy

works available by:

Sylvia Plachy

William Boling

George Daniell

John McWilliams

Rob McDonald

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