If you’re into photography, this is a week to be in New York. The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, with more than 85 of the world’s leading photography art galleries, opens tomorrow at the Park Avenue Armory, with the opening night preview today from five to nine pm. Park Avenue at 67^thStreet, NY, NY. Info Public programs run throughout the day on Saturday, and are included with admission. Info Preview the exhibitions on Artsy Above: Simon Roberts, Brighton West Pier, 2011; Flowers Gallery

Howard Greenberg Gallery, 10 blocks to the south, is presenting A Democracy of Imagery, curated by Colin Westerbeck. The show affords a rare opportunity to investigate the gallery’s famed backrooms and uncover treasures of the medium. Westerbeck writes, “From the beginning, the purpose of the exhibition was to include underappreciated photographs by famous photographers and great photographs by underappreciated photographers. To me, in the end, they’re all great photographs by great photographers.” 41 East 57^th Street, NY, NY. Info

Across the street, Pace Gallery inaugurates their representation of British artist Richard Learoyd with an exhibition of his large-scale color and black-and-white photographs made over the last decade. Featuring a selection of portraits, landscapes and still lifes, Richard Learoyd will be on view at 32 East 57^thStreet through the end of April. Learoyd writes, “The pictures are about extending the duration of looking. I want them to frustrate our desire to instantly understand a photographic representation of a person. My hope is that they inspire a truly reflective view: a view of intimacy and understanding, an insight into another that will increase our humanity.” Info Installation photo by Kerry Ryan McFate, courtesy Pace Gallery.

One of the highlights of the week is the preview exhibition of the upcoming photography and photobooks event at Swann Auction Galleries. This is a show for connoisseurs, with everything from 19^th-century campaign buttons to works by contemporary artists. It’s also a show for collectors of arcane subject matter, including an album of prison escapees and fugitives from Ohio, ca. 1920s; a group of 4 photographs pertaining to the KKK, also 1920s; and a Hills Brothers Coffee Can with a wraparound photomechanical reproduction of Winter Morning, Yosemite Valley, California by Ansel Adams, 1969. Above: © Sebastião Salgado, Casts of Thousands, 1986

Left: © Stephen Shore, from a portfolio entitled New California Views

Among the standouts of 20^th-century work is a portfolio entitled Witnesses of Time by Flor Garduño, 1988-90. Also on view is a landscape by Sally Mann, an oversized silver print, toned with tea and printed by Mann from the original wet collodion negative, 37 ¼ x 47 inches; and a print of Cast of Thousands by Sebastião Salgado, 1986, from his Workers series, above; as well as works by Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz and Robert Frank. Images & Objects: Photographs & Photobooks, April 14-19. Swann Auction Galleries, 104 East 25^th Street, NY, NY. Info 

Opening this week in galleries around town:

Jean Pigozzi | Johnny’s Pool, 6-8 pm. Gagosian Gallery, 976 Madison Avenue, NY, NY.

Dennis Adams | In the Red, 6-8 pm. Kent Fine Art, 210 Eleventh Avenue, NY, NY.

Susan Graham, Simone Shubuck, Wendy Small | Bittersweet, 6-8 pm. Sears Peyton Gallery, 210 Eleventh Avenue, NY, NY.

John Chiara | West Side at Tioranda, 6-8 pm. Yossi Milo Gallery, 245 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY.

Kansuke Yamamoto, 6-8 pm. Taka Ishii Gallery, 23 East 67^th Street, NY, NY.

Continuing in galleries around town:

F&D Cartier | Grand Tour,  Elizabeth Houston Gallery, 34 East 1^st Street, NY, NY

Sharon Core | Understory. Yancey Richardson Gallery, 525 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY. Nadav Kander | Dust. Flowers Gallery, 529 West 20^th Street, NY, NY.

Suspended Animation | Moving Images in Print. International Print Center New York, 508 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Dennis Adams. Kent Fine Art, 210 11^th Avenue, NY, NY.

Christoph Pouget | Crossroads of the World. Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, 547 West 27^th Street, NY, NY.

Doug DuBois | In Good Time. Aperture Foundation/in collaboration with the Hermès Foundation, 547 West 27^th Street, NY, NY. Info

Dor Guez | Christian Palestinian Archive. James Gallery, SUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY.

Sinan Tunkay 

I’m sorry, Leyla. United Photo Industries, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY. [Dumbo]

Liz Nielsen. Danziger Gallery, 95 Rivington Street, NY, NY.

Kenosis in the Supervoid | Michael Anderson, Brent Birnbaum, George 

Process and Progress. Foley Gallery, 59 Orchard Street, NY, NY.

Bolster, Arnaud Brihay, Klay-Ja. Station Independent Projects, 138 Eldridge Street, NY, NY.

Anne Collier. Anton Kern Gallery, 532 West 20^th Street, NY, NY.