Sally Mann’s latest body of work, Proud Flesh opens Tuesday, September 15 at Gagosian Gallery in New York City coinciding with Aperture’s publication of her monograph by the same name. A deeply personal and moving project, these candid nudes of her husband, Larry Mann, explore subtle complexities between both man and woman, and artist and subject. Her unique production process gives a painterly feel to the images, which are contact prints from wet-plate collodion negatives that are produced by coating a sheet of glass with ether-based collodion and submerging in silver nitrate.  Be sure to attend the opening reception of this inspirational body of work from one of contemporary photography’s icons.

Click here to view Sally Mann: Proud Flesh available soon through Aperture.

Sally Mann: Proud Flesh
Exhibition on view:
Tuesday, September 15—Saturday, October 31, 2009
Opening Reception:
Tuesday, September 15, 2009  6:00 pm

Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Avenue
New York, New York
(212) 744-2313

The Seventh Annual Lucie Awards are now accepting nominations in their Support Category Awards – Aperture fans can submit their choices for Best Photo Book Publisher and also Best Photo Magazine!

Visit the Lucie Awards site for full details on casting your nominations!

If you like our  like thematic books, nominate the Edge of Vision; if you like our essay books, consider Philip Gefter’s Photography After Frank! If you prefer monographic work think Doug DuBois,  Thomas Ruff, and Michael Wolf.

Deadline is September 15, 2009.

Kicking off the Fall season, Aperture Gallery presents Nature as Artifice: New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art opening Thursday, September 10 coinciding with the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s arrival in New York. Curated by Maartje van den Heuvel, Nature as Artifice presents a major survey of new work by contemporary Dutch artists who, over the past twenty years, have taken contemporary Holland as their inspiration. The exhibition features the work of Hans Aarsman, Wout Berger, Henze Boekhout, Driessens & Verstappen, Marnix Goossens, Arnoud Holleman, Gert Jan Kocken, Jannes Linders, Cary Markerink & Theo Baart, Hans van der Meer, Gábor Ösz, Bas Princen, Xavier Ribas, Gerco de Ruijter, Frank van der Salm, Hans Werlemann, and Edwin Zwakman.
On Saturday, September 12, 2009, Aperture will host a symposium with select artists from the exhibition and other experts on Dutch photography at the School of Visual Arts’s new Visual Arts Gallery. Additionally, on Tuesday, September 15, Aperture Gallery will hold an Artist’s Talk with Hans Aarsman, who explores the myriad of questions involved in taking photographs for purposes as varied as advertising, documentation, and personal mementos.

Nature As Artifice
Exhibition on view: September 10—October 15, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 10, 2009  6:00—8:00 pm
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

Panel Discussion with Artists and Curator:
Saturday, September 12, 2009  1:00—4:00 pm
SVA Visual Arts Gallery
333 West 23rd Street
New York, New York
(212) 592-2982

Artist’s Talk with Hans Aarsman
Tuesday, September 15, 2009  6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery

Aperture would like to announce the second annual FotoWeek DC Awards call for entries. This year, the competition has expanded from regional to international. You are invited to submit all forms of remarkable imagery –  both in single and series, as well as multimedia pieces that combine the strength of still images with video, sound and graphics.
Submit your best work, and enter today.

•  Open to all photographers around the world.
•  Winning work displayed at FotoWeek DC Festival Nov 7-14, 2009.
•  $21,500 in cash awards
•  Distinguished panel of international judges
•  National Geographic Society Awards Ceremony Nov 5, 2009
•  Published in Limited Edition 2010 FotoWeek DC Book
•  Media & Online exposure at fotoweekdc.org
•  Entries judged in 12 separate categories (including social documentary and multimedia)
•  Images accepted in digital, film, cell phone, and alternatives processes

The Awards deadline is September 13, 2009. Visit www.fotoweekdc.org for a complete listing of award categories, eligibility, rules, judges and information on FotoWeek DC 2009. FotoWeek DC relies on your generous support to fund our non-profit programs and events.

Good luck!

Last Saturday, a group of Aperture interns and staff had the chance to visit Mike and Doug Starn’s gigantic new studio in an ex-Beacon foundry where they are creating the Big Bambú installation evolving around their photo-based projects. Big Bambú is an ever growing and changing sculpture by the Starn brothers, constructed from thousands of fresh-cut bamboo poles lashed together by a team of rock climbers working as high as fifty feet off the ground under the artists’ direction. Gaudéricq Robiliard, the director of the Starn studio and former Aperture intern, gave an engaging private tour of the studio in which some of the interns and staff even experienced climbing Big Bambú to the top!

Click here to view the album on facebook.

Click here to read the New York Times Magazine feature on the Big Bambú.

Click here to view the Starn brothers in Aperture magazine, issue 175.

We are currently receiving applications for the January-June 2010 Internship session, so check out details on our website. Young graduates from the United States and around the world can apply for an exciting and thorough experience in the editing, design, production, circulation, sales, and marketing of photography’s most significant publications; the development of major traveling exhibitions; the creation of web content; and all other business operations essential to a non-profit organization. The closing deadline to submit your application is October 1.

Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen’s series The Places We Live, was recently featured on  The New York Times Lens blog in a piece titled: Must See: A New Kind of News. This project is highlighted as it has been presented as an interactive website based on his series, which was published by Aperture. The site provides a 360-degree view of the urban slums of Kenya, India, Venezuela, and Indonesia as well as interviews with the people who inhabit them. This interactive experience engages the viewer and opens eyes into the stories of those who live in the most unfortunate of conditions.

Check out www.theplaceswelive.com to experience these impoverished urban spaces for yourself.

Click here to purchase your copy of The Places We Live through Aperture.

An exhibition of this work is soon to be on view at The Building Museum, Washington D.C. this fall.