Slideluck Potshow’s fourteenth edition to be held at Aperture Gallery Friday, November 13th has extended its submission deadline to November 4th. This show’s theme is INSIDE OUT, which could be about being on the outside or an idea of space like boundaries, architecture, etc and is curated by Aperture Editor Lesley A. Martin.  All entries must be received digitally, click here to view full submission guidelines.

For this show, all guests will need to purchase $10 tickets support of both SLPS and The Aperture Foundation.  Due to spatial limitations, this event will be considerably more intimate than recent NYC Slidelucks.  If you are serious about securing a spot for this show, we invite you to purchase your tickets immediately!

SLIDELUCK POTSHOW XIV
Friday, November 13th, 2009  |  7pm Potluck  |  9pm Slideshow
The Aperture Foundation  |  547 W. 27th St, 4th Floor  | New York, NY  |  10001
$10 Donation Required |  Submissions Info

Aperture will host a live twitterview with photographer Joel Meyerowitz. Tweet your questions to @aperturefnd on Wednesday, November 4 at 4pm, and Joel will respond in 140 characters or less. Both Joel and Aperture are excited to answer questions about his latest project Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks from fans and emerging photographers around the world.

Jacqueline Hassink on Domains of Influence from Aperture Foundation on Vimeo.

Watch a short interview with Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink speaking about her book Domains of Influence: Arab Women Business Leaders in a New Economy, part of the Aperture Curated Collection. In this clip, Hassink explains the origin of the project, how she collaborated with The Arab International Women’s Forum to reach out to these thirty-six powerful Arab women from eighteen Arab countries and created a unique portrait of them, capturing both the boardroom tables and dining room tables instead of their faces. The resulting work gives the viewer both an alienated and incredibly intimate view of how her subjects conceive of and project their identities and positions. Hassink also gives insight into the design of the book created by Irma Boom. She finally explains the different layers of her artistic projects from the aesthetic to the social level. “I have noticed over the years that my work is not only appreciated in the art world but also in other areas of society,” notes Hassink, “Architectural, sociological and economic readings have all been welcome contributions to the way I think about the work.”

Click here to view Jacqueline Hassink’s video interview on her newest book Car Girls

Visit the Car Girls microsite via Aperture

Click here to purchase your copy of Car Girls

Click here to view Car Girls limited-edition portfolio

Opening Thursday, October 29th, at Higher Pictures in New York City is All the Days and Nights, photographs by Doug DuBois. Featuring works from his monograph by the same name, DuBois turned the lens on his family over a twenty-five year period. These personal reflections stimulate more introspection than your average family photos as DuBois conveys the aftermath of his father’s near-death accident and mother’s consequential emotional breakdown.  His capture of mundane moments shine light on the subtle complexities of his evolving family dynamics.  DuBois will attend the opening reception and sign copies of his monograph.

Doug DuBois: All the Days and Nights
Thursday, October 29—Saturday, December 5, 2009

Opening Reception and Book Signing:
Thursday, October 29, 2009  6:00—8:00 pm

Higher Pictures
764 Madison Avenue, New York
(212) 249-6100

Click here to purchase All the Days and Nights through Aperture

Click here to view the  limited-edition print from Doug DuBois

Join Aperture and the Parsons Department of Photography for an artist’s talk with Lorna Simpson at Aperture Gallery. Simpson is known for her use of the image of the African-American woman to examine the ways in which gender and culture shape the interactions, relationships, and experiences of our lives in contemporary, multi-racial America. Recently, she has turned her attention to moving images; in film and video works such as Call Waiting, Simpson presents individuals engaged in intimate and enigmatic elliptical conversations that elude easy interpretation while addressing the mysteries of both identity and desire. Her newest works include figurative drawings of characters from her video works and a collection of drawings of women’s heads, turned in profile to reveal their various hairstyles. Simpson is currently creating installations involving found vintage photographs accompanied by her own drawings and new photography.

Artist’s Talk with Lorna Simpson
Tuesday, October 27,  7:00 pm

FREE

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

Join photographers Tim Davis, Tim Hetherington and An-my Lê for a discussion on contemporary war photography. Tim Davis, known for his monograph My Life in Politics, calls himself a photographer who sees “unintended derangements of objects in offices, hospitals, strip malls and the political sphere.” An-my Lê approaches from the unique standpoint of a Vietnam War refuge, and for her work Small Wars she photographed Vietnam War reenactors in North Carolina. This panel, Social Change, Conflict and a New Photographic Paradigm, moderated by Richard B. Woodward is organized in conjunction with Visions of War: The Arts Represent Conflict and is presented by the BFA Photography and Humanities & Sciences Departments at SVA.

Tim Davis, Tim Hetherington and An-my Lê with Richard B. Woodward
Social Change, Conflict and a New Photographic Paradigm
Friday, October 23, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
New York City

The Henry Art Gallery in Seattle opens an exhibition this week featuring works from Eirik Johnson’s recently published Sawdust Mountain, accompanied by 19th-century photographs from the University of Washington Special Collections by photographers such as Darius Kinsey, curated by Johnson. He will also give an artist’s talk on Thursday in celebration of the opening. Eirik Johnson describes his photographs as “a melancholy love letter of sorts, my own personal ramblings.” Through this poetic approach, Eirik Johnson: Sawdust Mountain records a region affected by historic economic complexities and, by extension, one aspect of our fraught relationship with the environment in the twenty-first century.

Click here to purchase your copy of Eirik Johnson’s monograph Sawdust Mountain

Click here to watch a video of Eirik Johnson speaking at Aperture Gallery via our multimedia section

Eirik Johnson: Sawdust Mountain
Exhibition on view:
Saturday, October 24, 2009—Sunday, January 31, 2010

Artist’s Talk: Thursday, October 22, 7:00 pm

The Henry Art Gallery
University of Washington
15th Avenue NE, at 41st Street
Seattle, Washington
(206) 543-2280

Aperture would like to extend our grattitude for Aperture magazine’s nomination for Photography Magazine of the Year in the Seventh Annual Lucie Awards.  Click here to view full list of nominees.

On the occasion of the release of his new monograph Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks (Aperture, October 2009), Photographer Joel Meyerowitz gave a talk at Aperture Gallery presenting the origin and spirit of the project, along with a slide-show of images from the book.
You can watch below an edited excerpt of the talk where Meyerowitz, a gripping story-teller, speaks about his unexpected discoveries along the building of this survey on New York City parks and the making of the book as a collaborative effort with Aperture editor Lesley A. Martin.

Joel Meyerowitz on Legacy: Excerpts from his talk 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

This stunningly beautiful collection of images is the result of a unique commission Meyerowitz received from the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation to document, interpret, and celebrate the nearly 9,000 acres of parks in the five boroughs that have been left or returned to their most natural state. Meyerowitz is the first photographer to document New York City’s parks since the 1930s, when they were photographed as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s WPA program.

Click here to purchase your copy of Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks

Click here to view the limited-edition Legacy Portfolio and click here to view the Joel Meyerowitz: Boxed Set

Click here to view upcoming events with Joel Meyerowitz

Click here to become a fan of Legacy on facebook!

The Accidental Theorist, 2007, Edgar Martins, Sony World Photography Award winner 2009

In conjunction with PhotoPlus Expo, the annual photography conference and expo boasting hundreds of exhibitors at the Jacob Javits Convention Center next week, Sony has organized two exhibitions and is throwing a party at Aperture! The party is Thursday, 10/22, from 7:30 – 9:30 and it’s free with open bar, food, and a DJ.  Come see the Sony World Photography Awards and Sony Artisans of Imagery exhibitions, have your photo taken in the pop-up photo studio, and enjoy a cocktail or two.

For more information on the Sony World Photography Awards, click here.

For more information on Sony Artisans of Imagery, click here.

Sony World Photography Awards 2009/10 Global Tour, and Sony Artisans of Imagery

Opening Party: Thursday, October 22, 7:30-9:30

FREE but RSVP required

rsvp@bonniercorp.com

Exhibitions on view:
Thursday, October 22–Friday, October 30, 2009

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