Aperture’s Summer Sale has just been extended to August 17, 2009! Limited-edition prints and portfolios are 15% off and you can get an additional 15% off already-reduced books if you use coupon code APADV9 during checkout.
These savings are only available online, so start shopping now!
Some exceptions apply, of course. Signed and limited-edition books are excluded, along with a few select prints.
126, an artist-run gallery in Ireland presents Aperture West Winner Hank Willis Thomas in a solo exhibition titled, It’s About Time, in following with the artist’s solo show at New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery this spring, and his first monograph Pitch Blackness published by Aperture Foundation last fall. Through his preoccupation with visual language and by utilizing materials commonly used in mass-media, Thomas presents a range of works from the last eight years in a retrospective fashion. As a whole, his work offers a history of the visual representation of African-Americans by exploring and often inverting iconic components of the “black past” that speak to the overarching complexities of race in the 21st century United States. More universally, Thomas’ work questions the role of media in creating a visual representation of identity.
Click here to purchase a limited-edition print from Hank Willis Thomas through Aperture.
It’s About Time
Hank Willis Thomas
Wednesday, July 15—Saturday, August 15th, 2009
126
Queen St., Galway, Ireland
091569871
The Alice Austen House Museum in Staten Island invites you to celebrate issue #17 of OjodePez with an exhibition titled Interlude. Both the show and magazine feature portfolios from photographers Tim Hetherington, Indre Serpytyte, Elizabeth Heyert, Victor Cobo, Ilkka Uimonen, JH Engström, Jason Nocito, and Lauren Fleishman. The magazine is guest edited by Jamie Wellford and Paul Moakley and is now for sale in newsstands and bookstores.
Click here to view JH Engström in issue #190 of Aperture Magazine.
Click here to buy a limited-edition print from JH Engström through Aperture.
Click here to buy the limited-edition portfolio from JH through Aperture.
Interlude
Friday, July 31, 2009 6:00—10:00 pm
Alice Austen House Museum
2 Hylan Boulevard
Staten Island, New York
(718) 816-4506
Opening this week at Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles is Periodical Photographs from Dan Winters, one of the world’s most influential editorial photographers. His iconic portraiture has been published across America’s most prestigious magazines, including New York, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times Magazine and is responsible for the definitive portraits of some of Hollywood’s most photographed A-listers (Gwyneth Paltrow, Denzel Washington, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslett), music superstars (Bono, Deborah Harry, Morrissey, Willie Nelson), and American political figures (Al Gore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, President Barack Obama). Aperture published the photographer’s long-awaited monograph in May 2009, which showcases the artist at the top of his game.
Art Center College of Design will host a special Alumni event with Dan Winters on Friday, July 31. An Artist’s talk and book signing will take place at 7:00 pm in the Ahmanson Auditorium on the Hillside Campus. To view event details, click here.
Click here to purchase Periodical Photographs from Aperture.
Exhibition on view:
Thursday, July 30—Saturday, September 5, 2009
Opening reception:
Thursday, July 30, 7:00—9:00 pm
Fahey/Klein Gallery
148 North La Brea
Los Angeles, California
(323) 934-2250
Dan Winters: Artist talk and book signing
Friday, July 31, 2009 7:00 pm
Art Center College of Design
1700 Lida Street
Ahmanson Auditorium, Hillside Campus
Pasadena, California 91103
(626) 396-2305
©Hugo Fernandes
Aperture Foundation and School of Visual Arts have partnered to present a group exhibition of works by alumni of SVA’s BFA Photography Department that explores issues of role-playing and identity in the twenty-first-century. In Identity Identities (i / i), curated by Stephen Frailey, chair of the BFA Photography Department at SVA, eleven promising young artists explore the various permutations of identity in today’s rapidly changing world through the fluid and evolving medium of photography that is perhaps best suited to tackle this subject.
Artists include: Allison Yeskel, Joseph Sbarro, Jennifer Lee, Hugo Fernandes, Jess Shaffer, Nicola Kast, Victoria Hely-Hutchinson, Jing Quek, Kelly Clark, Anula Maiberg, Susanne Persson.
Opening Reception:
Thursday, July 30, 6:00—8:00 pm
Exhibition on view:
Friday, July 31—Thursday, August 20, 2009
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
between 10th & 11th Avenues
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555
Paolo Ventura is now on press at Editoriale Bortolazzi-Stei in Verona, Italy for his upcoming Aperture title Winter Stories. Paolo Ventura invents an imaginative series of photographs depicting scenes from the memories of an old circus performer as he looks back on his life. The book will also include ephemera from Ventura’s working process as well as the artful drawings he creates as guides to his elaborate sets. Check out this exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the publishing process and get a sneak peek at his book to be released this fall.
This month’s Flak Photo WEEKEND series features work from photographer Doug DuBois’s title All the Days and Nights. A deeply personal body of work, DuBois first started photographing his family in 1984, before his father’s near fatal injury from a commuter train. Coping with the graveness of this hardship, he documents his family members through a tender lens, revealing the subtle complexities of their personalities and the dynamics of their relationships with one another. This poignant memoir engages the viewer in its emotional immediacy and showcases the tribulations of those closest to him.
Aperture and Flak Photo are giving away 5 signed copies of All the Days and Nights! To enter, browse the Flak Photo Gallery and post a link to one of your favorite photographs on Flak Photo’s Facebook wall. Winners will be chosen at random, click here for full details.
Click here to view Doug DuBois on Flak Photo.
Click here to read the 5B4 review of All the Days and Nights.
Click here to purchase your copy of All the Days and Nights.
Join the three MP3 II artists for a talk about their work on view at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
For his series Modifications, Curtis Mann collects found photographs depicting conflicts in the Middle East and Northern Africa. He then bleaches and scratches the surface of the images, removing information to create new meanings from his source material. John Opera investigates the uncanny in nature. Moving between representation and geometric abstraction, his works reference historical notions of the sublime and landscape as well as modernist photography. Stacia Yeapanis‘s interest in modes of entertainment and hobbies has led her to explore the simulated-reality computer game The Sims 2, and the craft of embroidery, as she stitches television screen captures of characters in states of distress.
MP3 II: Curtis Mann, John Opera, and Stacia Yeapanis
Artist’s Talk: Thursday, July 23, 5:30 pm
Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
(312) 663-5554
Exhibition on view:
Friday, July 17–Sunday, September 13, 2009
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Thanks to all for applying to the 2009 Aperture Portfolio Prize! Judging is set to begin shortly and we are excited to see the wonderful work submitted this year. Due to the large volume of submissions, you will be notified by email as to the winners and runners-up by October 31, 2009. Those portfolios will be posted online by January 1, 2010.
On the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the Moon Landing Aperture Honors The Apollo Prophecies, Photographs and text by Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick.
On July 20, 1969, a defining moment in history took place when Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and spoke the immortal words, “One small step for man—one giant leap for mankind.” On that memorable day, the world was led to believe that the Americans had won the race to the moon; that night, every child dreamed of growing up to be an astronaut. But with the publication of The Apollo Prophecies, by Aperture in November 2006
this historic “truth” faces a grave challenge.
In one extravagantly long photographic panorama, The Apollo Prophecies brilliantly documents a 1960s lunar mission that has an outcome very different from the one recorded in contemporary “histories.” As the story unfolds, we see that an expedition of 1960s American astronauts did indeed land on the moon, only to discover that a lost mission of Edwardian astronauts had gotten there first. These Edwardians greeted the Americans as long-awaited gods—the fulfillment of prophecies revealed to them many years before. Indeed, their prophecies mention the very names “Armstrong” and “Aldrin.” A friendly exchange ensued between the Edwardians and their “deities,” but when the Americans returned to Earth, the most remarkable of their lunar discoveries was kept under lock and key. Until now.
The Apollo Prophecies includes a booklet featuring the prophetic texts of the Edwardian astronauts, illustrated with intriguing schematics of Edwardian space gadgetry and photographs of the astronauts themselves. The tritone panorama and booklet are packaged in a space age die-cut slipcase. A limited-edition book is also available which is slipcased in a clamshell box. Also included is a DVD expanding on the trip, and a lenticular image, signed and numbered by the artists.
To view and buy the book, click here.
To view and buy the limited edition click here.
An exhibition of their work opens tomorrow, Saturday July 18th at Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles.
