At the School of Visual Arts graduate photography show, currently on view at Chelsea’s Visual Arts Gallery, we were looking to buy, but snapped up only one piece, a gorgeous shot of Keith Sonnier’s daughter holding a surfboard in the Hamptons, by Alix Smith, for $800.

Like so many newly minted graduates, Alix actually had her first show a while back, at the Caelum Gallery on West 26th Street. The noted photography collector, Jean Pigozzi, whose collection of Seydou Keita’s work was featured in an Art + Auction cover story last spring, bought out Alix’s entire show, possibly because her images of stiff Upper East Siders appealed to Pigozzi’s international playboy persona.

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