© Hank Willis Thomas

All Things Being Equal…, a new exhibition of works by Hank Willis Thomas opens at the Goodman Gallery in Cape Town, September 2nd and marks the artist’s first solo show in South Africa. Bringing together recent work, the exhibit explores legacies of slavery and colonialism, segregation and apartheid. Previous projects by Thomas include his Unbranded series, currently featured in the Greater New York exhibition on view at MoMA PS1, which re-appropriates advertising targeted at African Americans and his B®anded Series which can currently be seen at the Brooklyn Museum and considers representations of African-American men in popular media. Hank Willis Thomas’ monograph Pitch Blackness, which includes several bodies of work, was published by Aperture in 2008.

Hank Willis Thomas is the co-chair of this year’s first-ever benefit party, hosted by SNAP!, Aperture Young Patrons Program, which will follow the annual 2010 Benefit & Auction dinner.

Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal…
September 2-October 4, 2010

Goodman Gallery
176 Sir Lowry Road, Between Lewin and Nelson Streets
Woodstock, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa
+27 (0) 21 462 7573

Click here to purchase Pitch Blackness

See Hank’s tour with Aperture interns here.

Buy a ticket to the Benefit Party!

Left cover image: Cindy Sherman. Right cover image: Clare Strand.

Celebrating issue 200 with two dynamic covers, one from acclaimed photographer Cindy Sherman and the other from emerging artist Clare Strand!

Issue 200 includes:

Commemorating the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, photographers and long-time New Orleans residents Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick reveal the remnants of the tragic loss as well as the current uplifting communal spirit in the city.

An intricate link between Manhattan’s unseen past and present is depicted in photographs by Barney Kulok and further discussed by poet Max Blagg.

Recently discovered film stills from Salvador Toscano’s 1950 documentary about the 1920–17 Mexican Revolution, reveal new insight into the everyday citizen’s experience during the greatest social and political upheaval of the time.

Lucas Foglia sheds light on the unique lifestyles of Americans who detach themselves from mainstream society.

Martin Parr introduces Óscar Fernando Gómez’s photographs of Monterrey, Mexico, framed and taken through the window of his taxi cab.

David Campany investigates emerging artist Clare Strand’s cryptic black & white images of the unknown.

Aaron Schuman looks at Mike Mandel’s playful celebrity-photographer baseball trading cards from 1974.

E.L. Doctorow talks to Eric Fischl about Fischl’s  traveling exhibition of post 9/11 work by some of the most well-known artists working today, including Chuck Close, Nan Goldin, Catherine Opie, and many more. A portfolio of the exhibition images is available for purchase here.

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Click here to purchase Issue 200 with cover image by Cindy Sherman.

Click here to purchase Issue 200 with cover image by Clare Strand.

Over the next several weeks Aperture.org will be rolling out a fresh look and fabulous features, including a streamlined navigation system as well as general upgrades and new functionalities across the site. With these improvements, Aperture will be increasing browser’s ability to access and learn more about Aperture Books, Limited-Edition Prints, Events, Multimedia and the magazine. Please stand by as these improvements become integrated into the website!

Photo by Richard Misrach

One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds by Dave Anderson and Destroy This Memory by Richard Misrach, both new books from Aperture, document and reflect on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans’ road to recovery. On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of Katrina, these projects provide valuable and powerful portraits of the storm’s impact. Recent profiles on the New York Times Lens Blog, Nola.com, NPR provide insight into these bodies of work and now a number of upcoming events in New Orleans will bring the photographers and the work itself to New Orleans. Commemorate the past five years in New Orleans at the following exhibitions, events and block party taking place this week:

One Block:

One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds
Opening reception: Thursday, August 26th, 2010, 6:00PM
Exhibition on view: August 26, 2010 - Sunday, January 2, 2011

Ogden Museum of Southern Art
University of New Orleans
925 Camp Street
New Orleans, Louisiana

One Block: Block Party
Presented by Aperture, Oxford American and the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans
Saturday, August 28, 2010, 4:00 - 8:00 pm

500 block of Caffin Street
New Orleans, Louisiana

Destroy This Memory:

Unititled (New Orleans and the Gulf Coast 2005): Photographs by Richard Misrach
Exhibition on view Saturday, August 28, 2010 - Sunday, Occtober 24, 2010

The New Orleans Museum of Art
One Collins C. Diboll Circle
City Park
New Orleans Louisiana

Richard Misrach Artist Lecture and Book Signing
Sunday, August 29, 2010, 2:00 pm

The New Orleans Museum of Art
Stern Auditorium
One Collins C. Diboll Circle
City Park
New Orleans, Louisiana

Click here to view Dave Anderson’s One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds

Click here to view Richard Misrach’s Destroy This Memory

© John Gossage

The highly anticipated exhibition John Gossage: The Pond opens on this week at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Gossage’s influential body of work was recently acquired by the Smithsonian and marks the first time these photographs are exhibited in a museum setting.  The Pond initially was a photography book first published by Aperture in 1985, and is being reissued in September 2010 to coincide with this milestone exhibition.  The new edition, co-published with the museum, consists of an essay by photo historian Gerry Badger and an introduction by Toby Jurovics.

Meant to recall Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, The Pond consists of photographs of a small, unnamed pond between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland taken between 1981 and 1985.  Gossage wanted to portray a more all-embracing view of the landscape, exploring the less idealized spaces that border America’s cities and suburbs.  What he found in these sometimes unruly and mundane places were moments of grace and elegance.

John Gossage: The Pond
August 27, 2010-January 17, 2011

Smithsonian American Art Museum
2nd floor South
8th & F streets NW
Washington, D.C. 20004
(202) 633-7970

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Download a podcast of Gerry Badger and John Gossage in conversation here!

Self portrait by Chuck Close

Now on view at the National Portrait Gallery is an exhibition titled, Americans Now featuring portraits of various mediums and subjects from their permanent collection. On display are portraits of many of America’s famous leaders and professionals, by a diverse roster of artists including works by Dan Winters, whose book Periodical Photographs was released by Aperture, Chuck Close, whose Aperture monograph A Couple Ways of Doing Something presents his daguerrotype portraits, and Kehinde Wiley and Mickalene Thomas whose work will be included in Aperture’s upcoming  2010 Benefit & Auction!

Americans Now
On view August 20, 2010 - July 10, 2011

National Portrait Gallery
Eighth and F streets, NW
Washington D.C.

photograph by Matthew Nedbalsky

A new initiative by the New York Photo Festival, Capture Brooklyn is a juried exhibition of contemporary photography that seeks to capture the spirit and essence of Brooklyn as a way of promoting and celebrating New York-based photographers.  The jury this year will be Mike Foley, Founder of Foley Gallery; Susanne Konig, Director of The powerHouse Arena; Teresa Rad, Director of Art Production at TBWA\Chiat\Day - New York; and Doug Rickard, Founder & Editor in Chief of AmericanSuburbX.com

Three top prize winners will be selected, and 80 photographs chosen from submissions will be exhibited at The powerHouse Arena in Dumbo, Brooklyn.  The show’s official opening will coincide with this year’s Dumbo Arts Festival (September 24-26), and the exhibition will continue until October 15, 2010.

Act now! The submission deadline is August 29, 2010

Capture Brooklyn
September 24 - October 15, 2010

The powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 666-3049

Click here for more information about Capture Brooklyn.

Photographer Dave Anderson’s recently released book One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds is a powerful portrait of post-Katrina New Orleans as seen through the prism of a single city block whose residents are attempting to rebuild their homes. Using portraiture and still lifes, Anderson explores the very nature of community while testing its resilience.

In the below edited interview Anderson offers a behind the scenes look at the project that took four years to complete. ”There were some wonderful people on the block and I became invested in them almost immediately” says Anderson as he discusses how his relationship with his subjects shaped the work. View Anderson introduce and tell the story of key images from the project and the people depicted within them.

For more from this project visit the new One Block Microsite. Featured on the site are interviews with residents of the New Orleans block from the book, outtakes not included in the book and more!

On the fifth anniversary of Katrina join Anderson and the residents of One Block as Aperture, Oxford American, and the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans host a block party on the block where Anderson. The party will feature local cuisine and musical performances by Rebirth Brass Band and Little Freddie King and will celebrate the resilience of these residents and the power of community.

An accompanying exhibition of Anderson’s photographs will open at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

View Block Party details here.

Click here to purchase One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds

Photo by Paul Strand

This fall Aperture Foundation is pleased to present the Paul Strand in Mexico exhibition and catalog of Strand’s renowned photographs made in Mexico. On the occasion of the bicentennial of Mexico’s independence and the Centennial of its Revolution, this work by one of the great modern masters provides a unique and important photographic portrait of a critical moment from Mexico’s history.

The Paul Strand in Mexico exhibition opening September 9th at Aperture’s gallery will run in conjunction with a satellite exhibit at the Bronx Museum of Art, bringing together vintage prints, stills from Strand’s classic film Redes and previously unseen documents related to the work. In addition a small group show of contemporary Chicano, Mexican and Mexican-American photographers curated by En Foco’s Miriam Romais will be on view in Aperture’s project room.

A catalog co-published by Aperture and Televisa Foundation, to be released in October,  will make public the complete photographic works made by Strand during his 1932-34 trip to Mexico as well as a second journey in 1966. In addition to 234 photographs from the Strand archive, the book will feature in-depth, scholarly text by Author James Krippner, an essay by Mexican photo-historian Alfonso Morales and additional texts by Katherine Ware, Leo Hurwitz, David Alfaro Siqueros, and Anthony Montoya.

Paul Strand in Mexico
On view at Aperture Gallery September 9th - November 13th, 2010
Opening reception Thursday, September 16th, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Also at Aperture, in collaboration with En Foco: Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices and Selections from En Foco’s Permanent Collection

Also on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, presented by Aperture
Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio
September 9th, 2010 - January 2nd, 2011

Other Events Include:

A symposium organized by Aperture in association with and supported by The John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center at Haverford College will take place on October 15 and 16, 2010, includingScreenings of the newly restored versions of the classic Strand films Redes and Manhatta (1921), participants include John Mraz (Mexico), and Mike Weaver (UK), among others.

Family program: Bronx Museum, Saturday, September 25, 1:00-4:00 pm

Photo copyright Stephen Shames

Aperture exhibition The Black Panthers: Making Sense of History, Photographs by Stephen Shames opens August 25th at The Haggerty Museum.

During the height of the Black Panthers party, from 1967 through 1973, Stephen Shames photographed daily operations, capturing the group’s public face as well as behind the scenes moments. His close friendship with the panthers, Bobby Seale in particular, allowed Shames unprecedented access and his photographs provide a rare and dynamic look at the social movement. A selection of this work was collected in the acclaimed Aperture monograph The Black Panthers (Aperture, 2006) and the exhibition The Black Panthers: Making Sense of History brings together silver gelatin prints from this historically invaluable body of work.

The Black Panthers: Making Sense of History
Photographs by Stephen Shames
Wednesday, August 25, 2010-Sunday, January 2, 2011

Haggerty Museum of Art
Marquette University
13th and Clybourn
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(414) 288-1669