Don’t miss Thomas Allen’s exhibition Epilogue on view at Michael Foley Gallery in New York through October 10th. In this new series of work, the narrative is reduced to the final scene, often the scene of the crime and is Allen’s final foray using his unique process of cutting and folding the covers of vintage pulp fiction novels to create imaginative scenes filled with drama, suspense and sensuality.  The short clip below is an excerpt from his discussion with designer Chip Kidd in the fall of 2007 on the release of his Aperture book, Uncovered, where these images have been gathered and published for the first time.

Thomas Allen & Chip Kidd on Uncovered-Excerpt from Aperture Foundation on Vimeo.

You can watch the entire talk divided in three different clips, in the multimedia section of our website or by clicking the links below:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Designed as a toy-like board book, Uncovered (Aperture, 2007) reflects the spirit of the project that is nostalgic, irreverent, and downright fun. Allen is in conversation with Chip Kidd, the internationally renowned graphic designer, author, comic book expert, and associate art director at Alfred A. Knopf, who wrote the foreword to Uncovered and has used Allen’s work in his award-winning design.

View related limited-edition print.

Join master photographer Joel Meyerowitz for a talk on his work documenting the hidden pockets of nature that still exist within the urban environs of the city for the publication of Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks. This compelling body of work is the result of a unique commission Meyerowitz received from the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation to document, interpret, and celebrate the least developed areas within one of the city’s greatest legacies: the twenty-nine thousand acres of parks in the five boroughs. An exhibition of this series will be on view at the Museum of the City of New York, October 9, 2009 though March 7, 2010.

Legacy is now available through Aperture!

FREE

Joel Meyerowitz
Artist talk and book signing
Tuesday, September 29,  6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery
547 W 27th Street
New York
(212) 505-5555

See other events here, including Meyerowitz in conversation with author Philip Lopate at Barnes & Noble.

View limited-edition boxed set.

View limited-edition portfolio.

Below is an update on some of the latest goings on with three Aperture artists. On view at the Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in New York, The New Antiquity, features work from artist Tim Davis. Similar in tone to My Life in Politics, Davis surveys contemporary culture with his decisive lens, always with an element of wit and skepticism.

Photographer Brian Ulrich of MP3: Midwest Photographers Publication Project, is on display at Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco. His exhibition, Dark Stores responds to the 2001 call from the U.S. government to stimulate the economy through shopping. The work presents a skeptical gaze at the over-developed suburban retail landscape that is instantly recognizable, even considering his omission of logos and brand names.

One of the artists from Aperture’s The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, artist Silvio Wolf has a solo exhibition in Milan, Before Time, featuring works created specifically for Galleria Nicoletta Rusconi that explores the dynamic relationship between object and viewer. Wolf’s project was conceived as a single work consisting of seven different elements, which form a series of stations. After spending years examining images and their role in contemporary society, Wolf now shifts focus to the viewer and to the resulting interaction from this relationship. Click here to purchase a limited-edition print from Silvio Wolf.

Tim Davis: The New Antiquity
Thursday, September 10—Saturday. October 24, 2009
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery
730 Fifth Avenue at 57th street
New York

Brian Ulrich: Dark Stores
Thursday, September 10—Saturday, October 31, 2009
Robert Koch Gallery
49 Geary Street, Suite 550
San Francisco, California

Silvio Wolf: Before Time
Friday, September 18—Saturday, November 7, 2009
Galleria Nicoletta Rusconi
Corso Venezia, 22
Milan, Italy

Robert Frank’s infamous body of work, The Americans, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the book’s publication opened this week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City . The show, titled Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans, features the most in-depth look at arguably the most important photo book published since World War II and includes over 100 photographs, 17 books, 15 manuscripts and 22 contact sheets as well as a short film made by Frank for this exhibition. This show explores not only the roots of America as captured by one of photography’s legends, but also functions as an exploration on the photo book itself as the viewer can take note of Frank’s intentional sequencing and organization. For all those interested in the photo book, this show is not to be missed! The Museum will also host many events including An Evening With Robert Frank, already sold out, in which the artist will be in conversation with curators Jeff L. Rosenheim and Sarah Greenough about his career in photography and film. Through the month of October, the Met will screen films from the artist as well, click below to view schedule of showtimes.

Click here to view a full schedule and descriptions of programming for Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans at the Met.

Philip Gefter, author of Photography After Frank, speaks to NPR’s Daily Picture Show about the pivotal influence of Robert Frank in the field. Click here to stream audio. Gefter also wrote a piece titled Robert Frank’s America, published on The Daily Beast, click here to read more.

Click here to purchase your copy of Photography After Frank through Aperture.

An Evening With Robert Frank
Friday, October 9, 2009, 6:00 PM
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans
Tuesday, September 22, 2009—Sunday, January 3, 2010
Galleries for Drawings, Prints, and Photographs and The Howard Gilman Gallery, 2nd floor
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York City

Join the Aperture Internship program and get involved in all our different activities ranging from editing, design, production, circulation, sales, marketing, development and the creation of web content. For over twenty years, young graduates from around the world have been engaged in our program and made contacts not only with the current art community, but also with those who will constitute the art world of the future. Aperture Foundation’s Chelsea location offers the unique opportunity to work in the heart of the art district in New York City and have access to art galleries, museums, and other art-related facilities. We are now accepting applications for the January-July 2010 session, please visit our website http://www.aperture.org/internships for more information. The application deadline is October 1! We are also looking for an intern in the Exhibitions department for a three to nine month internship starting this October!

Click here to view our intern tour of the Starn Brothers Studio in Beacon, New York.

Click here to view Hank Willis Thomas give our interns a behind-the-scenes tour of his exhibition at Jack Shainman.

Click here to view our interns on a special tour of The Dutch Unseen at the Museum of the City of New York.

Yes, summer is officially over, but it isn’t too early to dream of being in The Summer Show Project exhibition, which will take place in the summer of 2010 at Foley Gallery, New York.

The Summer Show Project is a new initiative founded by Michael Foley of Foley Gallery and will provide an opportunity for emerging photographers to have their work seen, recognized and reviewed by fellow artists, gallery directors, book editors, as well as curators from museum and corporate collections.

TSSP offers the unique chance for artists to work directly with the gallery, creating new work to be curated in a group exhibition.

Apply here. Deadline for submission is October 15, 2009.  The cost of submission is $40 by October 1 and $50 by October 15.

Aperture and the Parsons Department of Photography at The New School present an artist’s talk with Norweigan photographer Torbjørn Rødland. Rødland is to photography what the Pet Shop Boys are to pop music, a master of delicately orchestrated cliché overload—a surplus of the too obvious, too cute, or too inane, extended to the point where the images are drained of all trace of commonsense and suggest a newfound silence or mystery.

Click here to read an interview with Shane Lavalette and Torbjørn Rødland.

Artist’s Talk with Torbjørn Rødland
Tuesday, September 22,  7:00 pm

FREE

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

China: Friday, September 18: Aperture Editor, Lesley A. Martin and artist Penelope Umbrico arrive in the midst of installation at Pingyao International Photo Festival for The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography . 90% there … all images up; text panels still missing.

Exhibition opens at 9:00 a.m. … Fingers crossed!

Many thanks to all who made Aperture’s opening reception for Nature as Artifice a great success! The Dutch Ambassador Eric Niehe, Project Manager of NY400 and Ambassador of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was in attendance and gave a very insightful speech on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Dutch arrival in Manhattan.  Curator Maartje van den Heuvel introduced the exhibition with artists Jannes Linders, Hans van der Meer, Bas Princen, Frank van der Salm and Edwin Zwakman, who were also present, see pictures from the event below.

Eric Niehe, Project Manager of NY400 and Ambassador of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Click here to read a blog entry from Artists Cary Markerink & Theo Baart on installing Nature as Artifice at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.

Click here to view the limited-edition print from Nature as Artifice artist Bas Princen.

Click here to view the limited-edition print from Nature as Artifice artist Hans van der Meer.

Click here to view the limited-edition print from Nature as Artifice artist Wout Berger.

Nature as Artifice is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Consulate General of the Netherlands, New York; and the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the Netherlands. The exhibition was organized by ALIA Foundation, Amsterdam, and is toured by George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, with the support of the Mondriaan Foundation.

Aperture with The New School, the Photography Department at Parsons and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics presents a panel discussion as part of the Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context series. Kicking off this fall season’s series is Words Without Pictures, which explores pressing issues in contemporary photography and celebrates the launch of the LACMA book project by the same name. Charlotte Cotton, curator and Head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, LACMA, will moderate a discussion with panelists Alex Klein, artist and Curatorial Fellow in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, LACMA; Matt Keegan, artist and editor of North Drive Press; David Reinfurt, graphic designer and co-founder of Dexter Sinister; and Denise Wolff, Aperture Editor. Other special guests include special guests Fia Backström, Johanna Burton, Melissa Catanese, Sarah Charlesworth, Moyra Davey, Darius Himes, John Lehr, Miranda Lichtenstein, Arthur Ou, Ed Panar and Laurel Ptak. Copies of the book will be available at a special price.

Words Without Pictures
Panel Discussion
Thursday, September 17, 2009  7:00 pm

FREE

The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York, New York