Michael Wolf: The Transparent City

Upcoming Exhibition on View:
Friday, November 14, 2008 –Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Museum of Contemporary Photography
Columbia College Chicago
600 S. Michigan Ave
Chicago, Illinois

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Ongoing Exhibition on View:
Thursday, November 6, 2008 –Saturday, January 3, 2009

Robert Koch Gallery
49 Geary Street, Fl. 5
San Francisco, California

In this, Michael Wolf‘s first body of work to address an American city, the artist has chosen to focus on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux. Bringing his unique perspective on the changing urban environments in Chicago, a city renowned for its architectural legacy, Wolf chose to photograph the central downtown area, inviting the viewer to see beyond the dense outer structures and to think about the transparency and fluidity of the new American cityscape. This series was created as part of the Chicago-based U.S. Equities Realty artist-in-resident program, a collaboration with the MoCP.

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Opening night at Paris Photo is a smashing success with many friendly faces stopping by the Aperture booth!

Sondra Gilman, Celso Gonzalez-Falla, Aperture board of trustees chairman and Aperture’s own Kellie McLaughlin

Artist Eikoh Hosoe, Aperture Executive Director Juan Garcia de Oteyza and Aperture Publisher, Lesley A. Martin

Eikoh Hosoe

Josef Koudelka

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More to come tomorrow!

Book Signing with Michal Chelbin, Aperture Booth, Paris Photo:

Thursday, November 13, 5:00 p.m.

Join us for an intimate conversation between mother and son about their work, influences, and collaborations. Hank Willis Thomas is one of today’s most compelling emerging artists. His first monograph, Pitch Blackness (Aperture), raises complex questions about identity, race, violence, and commodification in contemporary life. Deborah Willis is a photographer, educator, author, and curator. She is currently chair and professor of photography and imaging at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and the coauthor or the recently released title Obama: The Historic Campaign In Photographs (Harper Collins). Both will be available to sign their respective books following the conversation.

Tuesday, November 11, 6:30 p.m.

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

FREE

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El ensueño (Isabel Vallaseñor) (The Dream [Isabel Vallaseñor]), Tenacatita, Jalisco, 1941

Now on view!
Lola Alvarez Bravo
Saturday, November 1, 2008 –Sunday, January 4, 2009

Naples Museum of Art
5833 Pelican Bay Blvd
Naples, FL

Lola Alvarez Bravo (1907–1993) was Mexico’s first woman photographer. Her work is exceptional for both its compelling quality and its startling diversity. She began making photographs in 1926 under the tutelage of her husband, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, and continued photographing for the next sixty years. Some of her earliest photographs reflect her husband’s influence—they shared the same simple Kodak camera, and often the same role of film. But Lola achieved her own aesthetic during the 1940s and ’50s, concentrating on two particularly vivid bodies of work: portraiture and street photography. This Aperture traveling exhibition includes vintage photographs encompassing the full range of her extraordinary work. See the accompanying book here.

Capri, 1981, from Paesaggio italiano (Italian landscape)

Opening this Friday night at Aperture Gallery, is the first major U.S. exhibition of photographs by Luigi Ghirri, featuring both vintage and contemporary prints. During his short life, Ghirri revolutionized Italian photography in the 1970s, and is widely considered a pioneer and master of contemporary color photography. His work has influenced a generation of photographers, including William Eggleston, who wrote the preface for the book. An exhibition of Eggleston’s work will open at the Whitney Museum, this Thursday evening, titled: William Eggleston: Democratic Camera.

Atelier Giorgio Morandi, Grizzana, Bologna, 1989–90

Playing with different perspectives, Ghirri’s fresh color observations of Italy’s contemporary culture are witty, poetic, and often surreal. As William Eggleston notes in the preface of the book, “He teases the viewer about what is real and what is not.” Ghirri’s eclectic array of subjects included maps, charts, books, billboards, signs, advertisements, his own possessions and even the studio of painter Giorgio Morandi. An exhibition of Morandi’s work is on view now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Self-portrait, Paris, 1976, from Kodochrome

Luigi Ghirri (born in Scandiano, Italy, 1943–1992) studied and worked in Modena. He exhibited throughout Europe, with solo shows in Geneva, Amsterdam, Arles, and Cologne, as well as at the Light Gallery, New York. His work is in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; and Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. Of the twenty-five monographs published of his work, none have been in English, It’s beautiful here, isn’t it… (Aperture) is Ghirri’s first book to get major distribution in the United States and introduce his seminal work to the large international audience it deserves.

Opening Reception:
Friday, November 7, 6:00–8:00 p.m.

Exhibition on View:
Saturday, November 8, 2008–Thursday, January 29, 2009

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
(between 10th and 11th Avenue)
New York, NY
(212) 505-5555

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Read James Danziger’s blog entry from The Year in Pictures here.

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