Take advantage of a rare sale at 20×200, going on through Tuesday, June 16 at midnight. The entire inventory is 20% off with coupon code RIDONK at checkout. Included in this sale is work from photographer Penelope Umbrico whose work is currently on display as part of The Edge of Vision at Aperture Gallery. These beautiful prints are perfect for collectors of all ages.
A reminder to all photographers—The Aperture Portfolio Prize is accepting submissions until Thursday, July 16, 2009! This international competition is focused on discovering fresh contemporary artists and bringing them to a wider audience. First prize receives $2,500 and will be featured in Aperture Foundation’s website and e-newsletter. Runners-up will also be promoted and featured on aperture.org. Don’t miss your chance to submit!
Click here to view the official guidelines and FAQs.
Click here to view past winners of the Aperture Portfolio Prize.
The work of some of the most important photographers of the twentieth century is currently on view in The Christopher Hyland Collection of Photography, By Way of These Eyes: The Sublime, Exotic and Familiar at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT from June 6 through September 6, 2009. Tonight marks the opening reception to celebrate the show. Over the last decade, the museum has organized a distinguished series of exhibitions of contemporary photography and this show focuses on a collection of work of twentieth-century photographers amassed by the keen eye of Christopher Hyland. Hyland, founder of one of the world’s leading textile manufacturing firms and a collector since his youth, has put together a body of work informed by his exceptional eye and world travels. The well-known tastemaker and private art collector, based in Chelsea, is an avid supporter of his neighbor, Aperture Foundation. Included in the Christopher Hyland Collection, which features works by the renowned artists Herb Ritz, Henri Cartier Bresson, Robert Maplethorpe, Vik Muniz , Sally Mann, Edward Weston, and Edward Steichen, are works purchased from the Aperture Limited-Edition Photographs program: highlights include Christine, 2003 by Richard Renaldi ; Eva Le Porge, Jock Sturges; Michael Wolf’s tc39 and tc88; The Edge of Vision Portfolio featuring the work of Bill Armstrong, Richard Caldicott, Manuel Geerinck, Mikko Sinervo, and Nicki Stager; portfolios by Paul Strand and single works by Brett Weston, among others. Exciting programming is scheduled as an accompaniment to the exhibition, with lectures centered on many of the artists Aperture has published through the years: Diane Arbus, Edward Weston, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz. and Sally Mann. Also of note is the August 13 Art Happy Hour, titled the “The F stops here,” feature Ellen Carey and Bill Armstrong, included in the just published The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography. The New Britain Museum of American Art is a great destination for the photography enthusiast this summer!
The Christopher Hyland Collection of Photography, By Way of These Eyes: The Sublime, Exotic and Familiar
Saturday, June 6—Sunday, September 6, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, June 12, 2009 5:00—7:00 pm
New Britain Museum of American Art
56 Lexington Street
New Britain, CT
(860) 229-0257
Coinciding with the exhibition now on view at Aperture Gallery, The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, this is the second post of a weekly series of interviews on the Aperture blog for the duration of the show. The exhibition has now been extended to be on view through Thursday, July 16.
In the first video clip, conceptual artist Jack Sal speaks about his piece Sale/Sala (Salt/Room) while you watch him installing it. Inspired by the early days of photography, Sal uses the basic language of the medium in a minimalist and physical way, the mark of salt, steel and light on photographic paper, “making a three dimensional space out of a two dimensional idea, as if you were turning your camera inside out.” The picture is then constantly being made throughout the time of the exhibition.
Jack Sal from Aperture Foundation on Vimeo.
In this second video of curator Lyle Rexer, he explains how photography is not necessarily based on our memories, recording particular moments as one often assumes but “most photographs, when they are taken, look forward in time or…there are many photographs that when they are excised from their particular moment, actually have no time.” The images Rexer selected for this exhibition highlight this aspect and question our essential way of looking at other photographs and at reality in general.
Lyle Rexer – The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, p. 2 from Aperture Foundation on Vimeo.
Stay tuned next Thursday for video clips of Penelope Umbrico and Bill Armstrong.
En Foco Portfolio Review Session 2008, © Miriam Romais
En Foco
1738 Hone Avenue
Bronx, New York
(718) 931–9311
En Foco is a non-profit organization that supports contemporary fine art and documentary photographers from mainly South American, Asian, and African heritage. Join them for a list of exciting events including portfolio reviews, artist talk and a free workshop.
Saturday, June 13
Artist Talk at Calumet Photo in NYC.
The artists participating in En Foco’s exhibition New Works #12 give a lecture about their work. With Karen Garrett de Luna, Isabelle Lutterodt, and Morgan M. Ford.
Saturday, June 20
Portfolio Review Sessions
Sign up now for En Foco’s Portfolio Review Sessions, at Calumet Photo in NYC.
Wednesday, June 24
Cocktail Benefit Party
En Foco celebrates its 35th Year with a Cocktail Benefit Party for friends and artists surrounded by the works in The New Work #12 exhibition.
Wednesday, June 24
Photo Competition People/Places/Things
Submit your work for the International Photo Competition celebrating En Foco’s 35 Anniversary.
Thursday, July 9
FREE Workshop: Get your Foot in the Door: Tips for submitting your work.
Friday, July 31
New Works #13 Call Entries Deadline
En Foco’s New Works Photography Awards Fellowship selects three prospective artists and provides the opportunity and infrastructure needed for national visibility, and an exhibition of their new work.
Hector Mata, a 2008 Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner-Up, opens Limbo an exhbiition on view at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. A Peruvian native, Mata compares the United States and Mexican border to the Roman Catholic tradition of Limbo as an intermediary state designated for un-baptized babies and of the just who died before Christ. The concept of torn identity has been a personal focus of Mata’s, and his images are aimed at showing their manifest in physical divides.
Click here to view Hector Mata’s complete Aperture Portfolio Prize submission.
Click here to purchase Reservoir, 2007, a limited-edition photograph through Aperture.
Hector Mata: Limbo
Thursday, June 11—Friday, July 3, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 11, 2009 6:00—10:00 pm
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
107 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles
(323) 646-9427
Camino a Xico Viejo, Veracruz © Guillermo López Hernández
EL MÉXICO DE LOS MEXICANOS is accepting entries from all photographers, whose work capture and represent contemporary Mexico, its territory, its people, and their activities.
Grand Prize: $15.000 in cash; $15.000 in photographic equipment and two AeroMexico round trip tickets plus other great prizes and special awards.
Participants may submit up to 5 photographs, in black and white or color, with the exception of those who decide to participate in “The Jury Prize,” which will be awarded for a portfolio of 20 photographs about a specific Mexican cultural community.
Deadline: Friday, June 12, 2009
The competition is sponsored by BANAMEX.
The Museum of the City of New York and Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam present Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered. This exhibition is guest curated by Kathy Ryan, Photo Editor of The New York Times Magazine, and commemorates the 400th anniversary of the Dutch arrival in Manhattan. The show features works from contemporary Dutch photographers aimed at constructing a portrait of what New York City is today. The exhibition includes portraiture, landscapes, still lifes, conceptual photographs, and documentary photography in a display of modern work, firmly rooted within the Dutch tradition. Participating artists include: Morad Bouchakour, Misha de Ridder, Wijnanda Deroo, Rineke Dijkstra, Charlotte Dumas, Hendrik Kerstens, Arno Nollen, Erwin Olaf, Jaap Scheeren, Danielle van Ark, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, and Hellen van Meene.
The Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered
Wednesday, June 10—Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York
(212) 534-1672
The Summer 2009 issue of Aperture, #195 from Aperture Foundation on Vimeo.
Presenting Aperture magazine’s Summer preview video, with music by Brooklyn-based Sad Red. This issue features genre-bending fashion photographers, Jeffrey Fraenkel and Robert Adams on Edward Hopper’s influence, Daniel and Geo Fuchs in the Stasi, a look at gay sexual identity explored via the Web, an interview with Don McCullin (video here), and more.
Sad Red’s lead singer, Jake Bloomfield-Misrach, is photographer Richard Misrach’s son, whose latest work was featured in the Winter 2009 issue of Aperture magazine.
Tod Papageorge’s American Sports, 1970 opens at Pace/McGill Gallery on New York City this Thursday. A project he described as a revelatory look at the phenomenon of professional sports and their spectators in America during the tumultuous Vietnam War period. Over thirty gelatin silver prints will be on display, highlighting events such as The World Series, Preakness Stakes, Indianapolis 500 and The Cotton Bowl.
Click here to buy American Sports, 1970 or How We Spent the War in Vietnam through Aperture.
