Still from The Music of Regret, 2005-6, 35 mm film transferred to HD CAM © Laurie Simmons

Exhibition on View:
Surveillance from the Doll House
Wednesday, April 15–Saturday, May 23, 2009
Mireille Mosler Ltd.
35 East 67th Street, 4th floor,
New York, New York
(212) 249-4195

FREE

Currently on view at Mireille Mosler Ltd. is Surveillance from the Doll House, a group exhibition featuring artists Nathania Rubin, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, and Karen Yasinsky. The exhibition challenges the assumptions of personal identity and the inanimate, and how these relate to the creation of alter-egos. To communicate their ideas, the artists use various aesthetic and conceptual methods, such as drawings and puppet animation, and they all share a fascination in the tangible, emotional, or political manipulation of their characters.

Laurie Simmons’s monograph Walking, Talking, Lying as well as the limited-edition print Talking Handkerchief, are available from Aperture Foundation.

Join Seattle native Eirik Johnson as he discusses his upcoming monograph, Sawdust Mountain (Aperture, June 2009), at his exhibition opening and in a series of talks on the west coast. The culmination of four years photographing throughout Oregon, Washington, and Northern California, Sawdust Mountain showcases the strained relationship between industries that rely on natural resources and the communities that are impacted. Johnson illuminates the relationship humans have with the environment in the twenty-first century.

Exhibition Reception and Book Signing
Thursday, May 7, 6:00-8:00 pm
G. Gibson Gallery
Seattle, Washington

Eirik Johnson and Paula Levine
Talk and Book Signing
Friday, May 8, 2009  7:30 pm
PhotoAlliance at San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, California

Eirik Johnson and Tess Gallagher
Talk and Book Signing
Saturday, May 9, 2009  2:00 pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
Seattle, Washington

Coal Mining, Dhanbad, Bihar, India, 1989.

Don’t miss this incredibly rare opportunity to see and hear one of the world’s most important social-documentary photographers, Sebastião Salgado. Salgado’s discerning photography documents the lives of the dispossessed with moving images of manual laborers, refugees, and extensive metropolises, which bear witness to the economic challenges and social injustice in less developed countries.

An evening with Sebastião Salgado
Presented by Fotovision
Palace of Fine Arts
Saturday, May 9, 2009
6:30 pm
San Francisco, Califronia

Hammer Lectures: Sebastião Salgado
Hammer Museum
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
7:00 pm
Los Angeles, California

Sebastião Salgado: AFRICA
Special Benefit & Exhibition Opening
Peter Fetterman Gallery
Wednesday, May 13, 2009,
7:00 pm
Santa Monica, California

Exhibition on view:
Wednesday, May 13–Saturday, September 19, 2009

Peter Fetterman Gallery is pleased to present Sebastião Salgado’s exhibition Africa. In addition, the gallery is hosting a special benefit for Sebastião & Lelia Salgado’s Instituto Terra with an evening of Brazilian food and music.

Aperture books Uncertain Grace and Workers will be available for purchase at Peter Fetterman Gallery. Also available from Aperture is The Children: Refugees and Migrants.

On Friday, April 17, Aperture Foundation welcomed a group of trustees and patrons to a private tour of Central Park’s Hallett Sanctuary with master photographer Joel Meyerowitz. The tour offered a sneak peek of Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York, a Fall 2009 publication featuring more than 250 of Mr. Meyerowitz’s color photographs of the city’s Forever Wild Nature Preserves—pristine, pre-urban landscapes preserved by the Department of Parks & Recreation within the five boroughs. The publication will coincide with an exhibition originating at the Museum of the City of New York and then traveling to U.S. and international venues from 2009 to 2013.  Guests brought their cameras and took shots of the wild sanctuary flora against the backdrop of midtown’s skyscrapers. The sunny trip ended with a lunch at Sarabeth’s Central Park South.

Click the lower right corner of the images to view slideshow fullscreen.

The Affordable Art Fair in New York City kicks off this Thursday, May 8, at noon and continues into the night with an Opening Night cocktail reception. Aperture Foundation, one of many international exhibitors, will feature a fabulous collection of books, magazine subscriptions, and limited-edition prints at booth #C-102, all at very affordable prices.

On Thursday, May 7, at 5:00 pm, Lesley A. Martin, publisher of Aperture’s book program, will moderate a discussion with artists Doug DuBois and Richard Renaldi, who will speak about their work and how it fits into the broader context of portraiture in contemporary photography. Click here for more information on this panel discussion.

The Affordable Art Fair
Thursday, May 7–Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Private Preview Cocktail Reception, May 6th, 2009, 6:00 pm–9:00 pm

7 West 34th Street
New York, New York
(212) 255-2003

Now on view through June is an exhibition titled Struck by Light: A Retrospective of Photograms by Ellen Carey. The artist uses one of the earliest processes in photography, which creates a shadow image from objects that are placed directly on photosensitive paper and then exposed to light. The resulting works are abstract in aesthetic and completely contemporary in their conceptual approach to color and light. Her more recent works utilize Polaroid materials in line with her photogram techniques. Carey’s work is featured in The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, a new title from Aperture with an accompanying exhibition. To find out more on the artist and her work, St. Joseph College Art Gallery hosts a free artist’s talk with Ellen Carey this week.

Struck by Light: A Retrospective of Photograms by Ellen Carey
Friday, April 3–Sunday, June 21, 2009

Gallery Talk with artist
Thursday, May 7  5:30 pm

FREE

Saint Joseph College Art Gallery
1678 Asylum Avenue
West Hartford, Connecticut
(860) 232-4571

The 88th Art Directors Club Award winners were announced Thursday, April 30 at the Art Directors Club Gallery in New York. Aperture-published titles Erwin Olaf and Michael Wolf’s The Transparent City were both recognized for Design in Print in Photography. Erwin Olaf won a silver cube award and The Transparent City took gold. Congratulations to all who were nominated and Aperture extends gratitude to our great design team. Be sure to get your copies of these award-winning books today!

Click here to purchase a signed copy of Michael Wolf’s The Transparent City.

Click here to purchase of Erwin Olaf.

Abdullahi Mohammed with Mainasara, Ogere-Remo, Nigeria, 2007 © Pieter Hugo;
Hans William Bentinck, Earl of Portland, K.G., 1698-1699 © Hyacinthe Rigaud

Exhibition on view:
The Endless Renaissance
Friday, April 17–Sunday, August 16, 2009

The Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Avenue
Miami Beach, Florida
(305) 673-7530

In Endless Renaissance, The Bass Museum of Art brings together a collection of historical and contemporary art to create a dialogue between the past and the present. It has been argued that when an artist integrates aspects of earlier work in their own, they change the way we look at the quoted artwork. For example, when you look at Michelangelo’s Mona Lisa, it is hard not to see Marcel Duchamp’s subversion of the painting with a mustache and goatee.

In Endless Renaissance, works by 17th, 18th, and 19th century masters such as Delacroix, Goya, and Rigaud are juxtaposed with the work of contemporary artists such as Gregory Crewdson, Pieter Hugo, and Sol Lewitt, all featured in recent issues of Aperture magazine. The idea is to highlight that all art, regardless of when it was created, is contemporary and reflects subjects which affected the artist at that specific point of time.