Aperture Anthology In-A-Bag

The bluelines for our upcoming Aperture Magazine
 Anthology: The Minor White Years, 1952–1976 have just been delivered to editorial, expertly packaged and fully portable!

This long-awaited volume—published on the occasion of Aperture Magazine’s sixtieth anniversary—will provide a selection of the best critical writing from the first twenty-five years of the magazine—the period spanning the tenure of cofounder and editor Minor White.

The texts and visuals in this anthology were selected by Peter C. Bunnell, White’s protégé and an early member of the Aperture staff, who went on to become a major force in photography as an influential writer, curator, and professor. Several documents from Aperture’s founders and individual articles are reproduced in facsimile, and the book is enlivened by other distinctive elements, including a portfolio of each cover, and a selection of epigrams and editorials that appeared at the front of each issue. An extensive index of every contributor to the first twenty-five years of the magazine makes this an indispensible resource. Stay tuned for its Fall 2012 release…

Last week the presses were rolling for Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency. This week Aperture’s Production Manager is on press in Verona, Italy with Barney Kulok, whose upcoming monograph Building: Louis I. Kahn at Roosevelt Island is currently in production. These on-press images just landed in Aperture’s inboxes, sent by Barney himself.

Building: Louis I. Kahn at Roosevelt Island (Photographs by Barney Kulok, Essay by Steven Holl) is coming this Fall!

Digital Media Assistant
Aperture Foundation

The position will be responsible for translating content from within the Foundation to our online platforms, including the Aperture Website, Exposures blog, Facebook, Twitter, and our Vimeo page. This includes promoting and publicizing planned events and content, as well as creating an online video and/or photographic archive of these events. The candidate must be comfortable filming, editing and publishing video to both the blog and our Vimeo account.

The ideal candidate is passionate about all things photography and art-related, well-versed in social media and SEO, and familiar with the global photography community as well as the Aperture brand. Candidate must be flexible, organized, efficient and able to juggle multiple projects at once. Candidate must also enjoy working in a small, close-knit team in our busy New York office.

Primary Responsibilities:
• Analyze and report on user activity data; develop the Foundation’s understanding of visitors behavior and their connections to us online
• Strategize ways to increase site audience & engagement• Publish daily content with SEO value, track metrics, monitor and respond to conversations
• Film, edit, and publish video that archives and promotes events
• Moderate blog comments and participate in blog discussions
• Listen to users and solicit and interpret user feedback
• Translate feedback into actionable recommendations for audience growth
• Spearheading & executing social media plans for all blog content
• Assist in updating Aperture general website and store with multi-media and visual content as necessary
• Coordinate and ensure the coherency of Aperture’s social media presence and Aperture’s other activities

Qualifications:
• Experience in the following: online writing, editing, and blogging
• Experience in video and sound recording, editing, including podcasting
• Experience with still photography a plus
• Strong social media and SEO skills and experience
• Strong research, organizational, writing, and communication skills
• Basic understanding of HTML, Google Analytics and WordPress
• Interest in and/or experience with photography, New York cultural institutions, and art-related events

Please send cover letter and resume to newhire@aperture.org

Brian Ulrich is on press for his upcoming book Is This Place Great Or What at Main Choice Printers in China. This monograph presents the photographer’s decade-long exploration of the shifting tectonic plates that make up American consumer society. Ulrich focuses, in part, on photographing the architectural legacies of a retail-driven economy in the midst of collapse—shopping malls on the brink of demolition, empty big-box stores, and other retail structures in transition. Look for the book in stores this October! Is This Place Great Or What will accompany an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Read more here from Brian’s experience making the book on his blog Not if But When.