Opening this weekend in Naples, Italy, an exhibition featuring the work of photographer Michael Wolf. Titled New Humanity Quo vadis?, Wolf’s photographs showcase architecture as the dominating force of the city, and its inhabitants as literally framed within it. The details that are offered within his photographs add a voyeuristic feeling to urban life and underscore the complexities of the modern metropolis.

New Humanity Quo vadis?
Saturday, March 7–Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Entropyart In Progress
Via San Pasquale a Chiaia, 48-53
Napoli, Italy
+39 081 0607742

Michael Wolf’s book The Transparent City is available here through Aperture.

Click here to buy a limited-edition print from Michael Wolf.

A fresh hybrid of magazine and website, FLYP Media creates an interactive web experience by combining text, video, animation and sound. Street Art, Street Life was featured in the January 16 issue, a piece titled Beyond Graffiti by Anna Katarina Gravgaard, based on Aperture book and the exhibition at the Bronx Museum exhibition.

Another incredible FLYP article featuring an Aperture book and exhibition is titled Think War with Jonathan Torgovnik. Torgovnik provides Amy Van Vechten with behind-the-scenes insight to his work Intended Consequences, on view at Aperture Gallery and book soon to be available here. Watch an interview, view images, and listen to Jonathan’s reflections on his mission gathering the powerful and emotional testimonies of these women.

Other FLYP features with Aperture artists include Jonas Bendiksen, Hank Willis Thomas, and Dawoud Bey.

The Armory Show, the international fair of new art, and the new adjacent program dedicated to historically significant Modern and contemporary art, The Armory Show-Modern, are now open on Manhattan’s west side. Visit Aperture Foundation at Booth 100 on Pier 92 for a selection of affordable limited-edition photographs and award-winning publications.

Thursday, March 5–Saturday, March 7, 12:00–8:00 pm
Sunday, March 8, 12:00–7:00 pm

Piers 92 & 94
12th Avenue at 55th Street
New York, New York

Admission Required

On Saturday, join us for brunch at Aperture Gallery before The Armory Show doors open:

Saturday, March 7, 10:00 am–1:00 pm

Aperture Gallery
547 W. 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

FREE

From The Blue Room, © Eugene Richards

Lecture/Book Signing: Eugene Richards
Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 7:00pm
Boston University Photonics Building, room 206
8 St. Mary’s Street
Boston, Massachusetts
(617) 975-0600

$10 Members/$20 Non-Members/$5 Full-time Students/Free for students of Institutional Members.

This Thursday, internationally renowned social-documentary photographer Eugene Richards is visiting the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University for a lecture and discussion of his new book The Blue Room.
This is the first color project by Eugune Richards, and the book depicts his moving and highly personal work on the abandoned and forgotten houses of the American West in areas such as Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, and the Dakotas. Richards’ reflective and beautiful photographs inspire us to imagine the lives of the former occupants, and mysterious images such as snow falling on a bed by an open window make a quiet statement on the inevitability of the circle of life and death, and the vulnerability of man in the phase of a shifting economy and climate.

Richards is perhaps best known for his books and photo essays on cancer, drug addiction, poverty, emergency medicine, and pediatric HIV, many of which have been accredited with prestigious awards. Some of his most recent publications include Stepping Through the Ashes (2002), The Fat Baby (2004) and A Procession of Them (2008). His book Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue, Aperture (1994), a groundbreaking document on the consequences of hardcore drug use, received the Kraszna-Krausz Award for Photographic Innovation in Books.

During his professional carrier as a photographer, Eugene Richards has received numerous honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment of the Arts Grant, and the W. Eugene Smith Award. His photography has appeared in countless publications including The New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, and LIFE. His work has also been featured several times in Aperture, most recently in the Spring 2005 issue.

Brooklyn, Snow, 2007 © Gail Albert Halaban

Gail Albert Halaban: Out My Window

Exhibition on view:
February 5–March 28, 2009

Robert Mann Gallery
210 Eleventh Avenue, Floor 10
New York, New York
(212) 989-7600

In her latest series, Out My Window, Gail Albert Halaban has ventured into the private spaces of New York City, photographing its inhabitants and the views that define their lives. In a world framed by windows, there is both an intimacy and remoteness in the proximity of so many strangers. Though the archetype of the photographer training her lens on her neighbor is easily associated with the voyeurism of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, the experience Albert Halaban records is far less menacing. In as much as we are aware of our display, the city is also on display to us. Window and camera are inextricably bound in the framing of a world.

Selections from an earlier series, My Name is Mommy, were published in Aperture magazine, issue 185.

Photographer Jonathan Torgovnik was featured on the Leonard Lopate Show, which aired today, March 3, 2009. Jonathan offers insight to his work Intended Consequences, an exhibition on view at Aperture Gallery through May 7, and book by the same title available April 7 to coincide with the fifteen-year mark of the start of the Rwandan genocide.

Listen to the interview through WYNC below.

Visit Aperture’s Gallery Page for more information on this important exhibition including the opening recpetion, Thursday, March 5, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Courtesy Martin Parr

Aperture, a television series created and produced by Susan Kravitz, in collaboration with Aperture Foundation, as part of VOOM’s GALLERY HD programming, has been nominated for a New York Emmy award in the category of  Interview/Discussion. The winners of the 52nd Annual New York Emmy® Awards will be announced on Sunday, March 29, 2009 and broadcasted on NYC TV Channel 25, Thursday, April 9, 2009. This acclaimed series features Aperture artists in candid conversation with celebrities who admire their work; each interview takes place in the studio space of the artist offering an intimate behind-the-scenes portrait.  Artist/celebrity pairings include Catherine Chalmers with Rosario Dawson, Vik Muniz with David Byrne, Donna Ferrato with Ally Sheedy, and Justin Guariglia with Lou Reed.

Episodes soon to be available at www.aperture.org.

Aperture Foundation is pleased to announce this nomination and would like to thank all those who made this enriching program dedicated to fine art photography possible.