Aperture is thrilled to announce PRINTING SHOW – TKY, an exclusive event and exhibition featuring influential Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama! Organized by Ivan Vartanian of Goliga.

PRINTING SHOW is a recreation of Daido Moriyama’s 1974 performance of the same name. Following the format of the original performance as closely as possible, in lieu of prints mounted on the gallery walls, visitors to the gallery will find the photographer stationed at a photocopy machine duplicating his photographic prints. As was done forty years ago, these photocopied sheets will be assembled and staple-bound with a silk-screened cover printed in the gallery space during the performance.

In 1974, the ad hoc photobook that resulted from this process, Another Country—New York, featured images from a trip Moriyama had made to New York in 1971. The photobook, which was produced as ephemera for the performance, has since become a rare collector’s item. In the 2011 recreation, the work featured will include a selection of images made in Tokyo over the last fifteen years.

Visitors to the gallery will be active collaborators in the photobook-making process. In 1974, the photographer sequenced and collated the photocopied sheets, leaving the choice of silkscreen cover to the visitor. In 2011, the visitor will select, edit, and sequence the sheets of the ad hoc photobook, titled TKY. Visitors will choose from a menu of fifty-four double-sided photocopied sheets that will be on view in the gallery space. Visitors will also make a choice of cover. All copies made during the performance interval will be signed by the photographer.

Daido Moriyama has been publishing and exhibiting his photography since the late 1960s, with a bibliography of over 300 monographs to his name. A major retrospective, Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog, originated in 2000 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and subsequently toured internationally to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Japan Society in New York, Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, and numerous other venues. He is a recipient of the Cultural Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie. Exhibitions include a major retrospective, On the Road, presented at the Osaka National Museum of Art from June to October 2011, and William Klein/Daido Moriyama at Tate Modern from October 2012 to January 2013.

Click here to purchase tickets to the event Friday Nov 4, Session 2–4 pm

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Presented by Aperture Foundation and organized by Ivan Vartanian of Goliga, PRINTING SHOW—TKY is made possible, in part, with support from David Solo; The Japan Foundation, New York; Hôtel Americano, New York; and Performa 11.

Untitled, 2005. © Florian Maier-Aichen

Exhibition on view:
September 13 – October 29, 2011

Baronian Francey:
2 Rue Isidore Verheyden
1050 Brussels
Belgium
+32 2 512 92 95

The work of German born artist Florian Maier-Aichen is currently on view at the Belgian gallery, Baronian Francey. Combining drawing, painting, and photography, Maier-Aichen creates rich, abstract landscape photography. Highly saturated in both color and concept, his photos play with the contradictions of landscape photography as a genre for both documentation and fiction. He has studied and worked in Europe and the U.S. and his work is included in the collections of many museums including the Hammer Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Maier-Aichen’s work was published in Aperture magazine issue 187, and the compendium Photo Art: Photography in the 21st Century. He will also be at Aperture Gallery on November 22nd for a free artist talk at 6:30pm.

Please join us on for a Book Party celebrating Is This Place Great Or What, Brian Ulrich’s long-awaited first monograph. The event will be held at Aperture Gallery on Thursday, October 20, 2011, from 7:00 – 9:00 pm.

The book 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.

Is This Place Great or What coincides with an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Brian Ulrich (born in North Port, New York, 1971) holds an MFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. In 2009, he was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He is represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Julie Saul, New York; and Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco. In 2006, Aperture published his work as part ofMP3: Midwest Photographers Publication Project.

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547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
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© Magnum/Bruce Davidson

In 1986, Aperture first published Bruce Davidson‘s Subway—a ground-breaking series that has garnered critical acclaim both as a document of a unique moment in the cultural fabric of New York City as well as for its phenomenal use of extremes of color and shadow set against flash-lit skin. In Davidson’s own words, “the people in the subway, their flesh juxtaposed against the graffiti, the penetrating effect of the strobe light itself, and even the hollow darkness of the tunnels, inspired an aesthetic that goes unnoticed by passengers who are trapped underground, hiding behind masks, and closed off from each other.”

Accompanying the third edition of this classic of photographic literature, Aperture Gallery will present Subway, an exhibition of the iconic color images that move the viewer through a landscape at times menacing, at other times lyrical, soulful, and satiric. The images include the full panoply of New Yorkers—from weary straphangers and languorous ladies in summer dresses to stalking predators and the homeless.

There will also be a Talk and Book Signing event at Strand Books on Monday, September 26, 2011. Buying a copy of the new edition of Subway, or a $10 Strand gift card will get you into the event. Although tickets are sold out online, more tickets will be sold at the door the night of the signing.

Bruce Davidson (born in Oak Park, Illinois, 1933) is considered one of America’s most influential documentary photographers. He began taking photographs when he was ten, and studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Yale University School of Design. In 1958 he became a member of Magnum Photos, and in 1962, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to document the civil rights movement. After a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1963, followed by a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1967, Davidson spent two years photographing in East Harlem, resulting in East 100th Street. In 1980, after living in New York City for twenty-three years, Davidson began his startling color essay of urban life in Subway. Davidson received a second National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1980, and an Open Society Institute Individual Fellowship in 1998. His work has been shown at the International Center of Photography, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum de Tokyo, Paris; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Museum Rattu, Arles, France; Burden Gallery (Aperture), New York; Parco Gallery, Tokyo; and New-York Historical Society.

Exhibition on view:
Tuesday, October 4, 2011–Saturday, October 29, 2011

Opening reception:
Thursday, October 13, 2011, 6:00 pm

Artist Talk:
Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 6:30 pm

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

Hosts: Fred Ritchin, Deborah Willis, Stephen Mayes, Melissa Harris (Wafaa Bilal, not pictured)

Aperture’s inside-out  exhibition in-progress What Matters Now? opened in its final form last Saturday night. The five Hosts: Wafaa Bilal, Melissa Harris, Stephen Mayes, Deborah Willis and Fred Ritchin, had two weeks to transform the blank walls of their areas into Proposals for a New Front Page. Their collaborative efforts yielded thought-provoking, outrage-inducing and even hopeful statements about the current state of media and photography. In addition to discussions led by the Hosts, public involvement truly made the exhibition a community effort. The Public wall currently exhibits over one hundred submissions from people worldwide, and those that could not attend the Aperture Gallery space for events and lectures joined the conversation through Twitter, Facebook and the website. The unusual form of  the What Matters Now? exhibition was an experiment on Aperture’s part, but one that produced fascinating results. Using Aperture Gallery as a meeting hub, the goal of the exhibition was to start a conversation about what we are looking at, as a society, and why. The weeks’ events and Saturday’s well-attended opening demonstrates that many are concerned with issues regarding the media: particularly trust, engagement and active readership. Fred Ritchin, the creator of What Matters Now?, even plans to continue working on creating a new way of reading, collecting disseminating information.

Although the hosts are no longer adding to their walls, the Public Wall will continue to grow. You can submit images and text online here until Thursday, September 22, 2011.

What Matters Now?: Proposals for a New Front Page
through Saturday, September 24, 2011
10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York

© Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos

Parsons Artist Talk with Christopher Anderson:
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
6:30 pm

Aperture Gallery:
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

FREE

Join Christopher Anderson at Aperture to kick off our ongoing Parsons Artist Talks series. Born in Canada and raised in Texas, Anderson is known for his emotionally driven photography, which he refers to as “experiential documentary. ” Winner of the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award,  Kodak Young Photographer of the Year Award and the Picture of the Year Award, and a member of Magnum Photos, Anderson’s photography will be featured in Aperture’s upcoming publication The New York Times Magazine Photographs.

What Matters Now? is now online and open for use! We encourage you to use the project’s website to submit your ideas, see the schedule, and learn more about the hosts and participants. For the duration of the exhibition in progress, the website will be constantly updated to reflect the physical changes in the gallery space, along with nterviews, photographs and and texts from the wide variety of participants. Most importantly, your submissions will be posted daily for thought and discussion.

About What Matters Now?

Submit your ideas

See the schedule

Learn more about the Hosts and Participants

Chicago, Illinois, 2005 © Brian Ulrich

Hurry, photography fans! Aperture’s Summer Sale is wrapping up  on Friday, August 5th. That means you only have one week left to save 30% off books and 15% off select prints.

You can shop our Summer Sale online to find hundreds of  books, prints, limited edition and signed items! We have new limited edition photographs by reGeneration2 photographers, plus prints from Jonathan Torgovnik, Rinko Kawauchi and others. It’s the easiest way to find all of our new publications, as well as older classics.

above: Rinko Kawauchi Untitled, from Illuminance

Aperture Foundation is participating in Artlog‘s Chelsea Art Crawl 2011. The evening will feature after-hours access to a mix of Chelsea’s galleries and non-profit spaces. In addition to touring the exhibitions, guests will be able to attend exclusive artist talks and curator tours. The Chelsea Art Museum hosts the after-party where fellow art lovers can mingle and enjoy free drinks and music.

Featured Venues:

Cristin Tierney (check-in location)
Paul Kasmin Gallery
Mixed Greens
1500 Gallery
Marlborough (check-in location)
Flag Art Foundation
Benrimon Contemporary
Chelsea Art Museum
Meulensteen
The Pace Gallery
Yancey Richardson Gallery
Zach Feuer Gallery
Mallick Williams & Co.
Honey Space
Larissa Goldston Gallery
Schroeder Romero & Shredder
The Kitchen
Aperture Foundation

Schedule:

6:30-9:00pm: Gallery Crawl & Talks
9:00pm-11:00pm: Party at Chelsea Museum

Tickets are $25 in advance, and you can register online. We hope you can make it!