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Winter Stories
Paolo Ventura
Book Signing

Thursday, October 22, 2009
1:30 pm

PhotoPlus Expo
Booth #1147

Jacob K. Javitz Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, New York


Join artist Paolo Ventura on the occasion of the release of Winter Stories for a book signing at Aperture's PhotoPlus Expo 2009 booth. A beautiful and enchanting volume limited to two thousand copies, Winter Stories presents Ventura's imaginative series of photographs depicting scenes from the memory bank of a fictional circus performer as he looks back on his life. A master of narrative staged photography, Ventura brings his imagined stories to life by building three-dimensional sets in miniature. Winter Stories also reveals the drawings and watercolors that Ventura uses as a starting point for his stories, as well as the handmade album of Polaroids that Ventura uses to guide the building of his elaborate sets.

Signing to be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Bill Hunt, featuring Mia Fineman, David Leinthal, Lori Nix and Paolo Ventura.

PAOLO VENTURA (born in Milan, 1968) studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan in the early 1990s. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Forma International Center for Photography, Milan; Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France; Fotomuseum Den Haag, the Hague, Netherlands; and Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris. Ventura is represented by Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York. He lives in New York City