Circuit City/ Ponderosa Steakhouse by Brian Ulrich

Photographer Brian Ulrich will be giving a talk this Friday, January 29th, at Hous Projects gallery in New York City.

The event will be co-hosted by Ruben Natal-San Miguel, curator of the group show VERSUS in which Ulrich’s work is featured, and Heather Huber of Hous Projects gallery.

Ulrich will discuss his photographic work Copia, a project that examines consumer culture and the state of capitalism in America. Images from Copia were published by Aperture and included in the first volume of the ongoing Midwest Photographers Publication Project. In 2009 Ulrich received a Guggenheim fellowship for the further  continuation of the work.

In addition, the talk will address the works in the show VERSUS and Ulrich’s perspective on the new generation of photographers.The event will include a book signing.

Brian Ulrich at Hous Projects gallery
Friday, January 29th, 5:30pm – 7:00pm
31 Howard St 2nd Floor
NY, NY, 10013

View Brian Ulrich’s limited edition photograph Chicago, Illinois, 2005, from the series Thrift

Antoñita La Singla, Barcelona, 1962. Photograph by Xavier Miserachs

No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography

Aperture Foundation and Instituto Cervantes, a non-profit organization that contributes to the cultural advancement of Spanish-speaking countries, have partnered to celebrate and interpret the art of flamenco through photography in two concurrent exhibitions opening February 4 and 5 at Aperture Gallery and Instituto Cervantes respectively, just prior to the launch of the 10th annual New York Flamenco Festival on February 11. Pastora Galván, an important new figure in flamenco dance will perform at the Aperture opening. Flamenco singer La Tremendita and guitarist Paco Cruz will perform at the opening at Instituto Cervantes. Both shows will remain on view until April 1, 2010.

Opening reception with live flamenco performance: Thursday, February 4, 6:00–8:00 pm

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10001
212-505-5555

Opening reception with live performance: Friday, February 5, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm

Amster Yard Gallery at Instituto Cervantes
211 East 49th Street
New York, NY 10017
212-308-7720

Check out these two gallery shows opening in New York City this week:

Erwin Olaf: Hotel, Dawn & Dusk

Dusk – Mother by Erwin Olaf
Courtesy of the Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery, New York

A solo show of new work by photographer Erwin Olaf will feature two bodies of work inspired by Olaf’s travels. Dawn & Dusk is a series of dramatic black & white and color photographs contemplating race, history and form, and the simultaneously exhibited series Hotel, a group of images evoking feelings of boredom and loneliness within the sameness of hotel rooms.

Hotel, Dawn & Dusk
Erwin Olaf
January 28- March 20, 2010
Opening reception: January 28, 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery
537 West 24th Street
New York, NY, 10011

Also this Thursday, January 28th, a dual exhibition of works by photographers Amy Stein and Brian Ulrich is opening at Caption Gallery in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

The show will include Brian Ulrich‘s Dark Stores, a stark group of landscapes depicting vacant malls and department stores in various states of abandon. The series is part of a body of work showcased in Ulrich’s first monograph Copia, which was published as part of Aperture’s first volume of our ongoing series the Midwest Photographers Publication Project.

Now available from Aperture is a limited edition photograph from Brian Ulrich titled: Chicago, Illinois, 2005, from the series Thrift.

Also exhibited in the exhibition will be photographer Amy Stein’s Stranded, a series of portraits of stranded motorists. Where she describes finding subjects as a matter of chance and every encounter tense because of the unusual circumstances of the interaction and the inherent danger of the roadside environment.

View Erwin Olaf’s Monograph Erwin Olaf

View Aperture’s Midwest Photographers Publication Project

Maira Kalman

Self-Portrait (with Pete), 2004-5
Courtesy of the Julie Saul Gallery, New York

Check out the first major museum survey of artist Maira Kalman, featured in Aperture issue #197. Along with her works on paper and less frequently viewed photographs, she has created an installation of furniture and found objects. Primarily an illustrator, Kalman’s work has been on covers of The New Yorker and in her blog on The New York Times website. 

Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)
Exhibition on view:
January 15-June 6, 2010 

The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania
118 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3289
(215) 898-5911

View Aperture issue#197

The exhibition Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape, Jonathan Torgovnik opens today presented along side The Innocents: Casualties of the Civil War in Northern Uganda, Heather McClintock at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. Jonathan Torgovnik was featured in Aperture magazine issue #194 and in the Aperture book Intended Consequences. His portraits of Rwandan women and their children, born as a result of rape, will be shown along with Heather McClintock’s photographs from Northern Uganda.

A panel discussion titled The Politics of Presentation: Finding a Venue for Challenging Documentary Projects featuring Aperture magazine editor Melissa Harris will take place tomorrow, Saturday, January 23, 10:00 am-12:00 pm.

Panelists include:
Photographer Jonathan Torgovnik
Heather McClintock-Photographer
Heather Dwyer- Blue Alliance, Seattle
Melissa Harris- Aperture Foundation, magazine editor-in-chief
Tom Rankin- Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, NC
Mark Sloan, Moderator- Halsey Institute

Exhibition on View:
Friday, January 22-March 13 2010

Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
161 Calhoun Street
Charleston, SC
(843) 953-5680

Don’t miss your last chance to see these spectacular exhibitions on view, TODAY — closing at 6:00 pm!

While Michael Wolf’s large-scale color photographs of downtown Chicago’s buildings and their inhabitants examine public versus private space in the context of 21st-century urban life, Barbara Crane’s intimate Polaroids from the 1980s hone in on private human gestures performed in public at Chicago’s summer festivals. Both bodies of work reveal private moments that were intended to go unnoticed, each eliciting very different visceral responses from the viewer while evoking the voyeurism that permeates our culture today.

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
Between 10th and 11th Avenues
New York, New York

Aperture Foundation would like to send its deepest condolences to the international Haitian community currently enduring the loss of their loved ones.

We here at Aperture would also like to salute the many photojournalists who are in Haiti reporting on the earthquake’s aftermath; their documentation is critical for us to more fully understand the scale of what is happening.

Aperture-published photographer Jonathan Torgovnik is currently on the ground in Haiti. His recent images of CNN reporter Anderson Cooper’s rescue of a young boy show the fragility of life after the earthquake and how very important it is for us all to support ongoing rescue and relief efforts. 

Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, survivors, and families affected by this great tragedy.

Barbara Crane gave a talk last November coinciding with her exhibition, Barbara Crane: Private Views, currently on view at Aperture Gallery. Crane went through her entire 45-year illustrious career as a photographer who continues to experiment with processes and reinventing a new language for her different bodies of work. In this excerpt below, Crane speaks specifically about her series of close-up Polaroids from Private Views taken in Chicago in the 1980s; how she photographed in movement with her cumbersome Super Speed Graphic camera, in thick crowds and her particular attention to gesture and colors. She also explains how it took her more than 25 years to edit these images in a book.

To watch the full version of this talk, click on these links below:

Part 1, Part 2

Barbara Crane: Private Views is on view at Aperture Gallery until January 21st. This series is a celebration of the classic 1980s Polaroid snapshot with an experimental flair; Crane’s mixture of natural light and flash combined with her use of Polaroid film highlights the primary colors of ’80s fashion, which still feels hip and contemporary today. An exhibition of this work will also be on view at Galerie Françoise Paviot, in Paris from January 14th until February 20th. There will be an opening with the artist on Saturday, January 23rd from 4:00 to 8:00 pm.

View related limited-edition print and book

Untitled, 2007
archival pigment print mounted to Dibond
62 3/4 x 82 1/2 inches

Copyright Richard Misrach
Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Photographer Richard Misrach, who has spent much of his career capturing the American landscape, will be exhibiting photographs previously featured as a portfolio in Aperture issue #193 at a solo show opening tonight at the Pace/MacGill gallery in New York City.

The exhibition features work from Misrach’s 2007-2009 series “Untitled” in which the artist presents prints of digital images as they appear in positive capture – the digital equivalent of an analog color negative. The result is a new series of landscapes pictured in a reversed color spectrum, examining both the progression of photographic technologies as well as the visual expectations of images of the natural world.

Make sure to stop by the gallery and take in this surreal set of large-scale prints.

Richard Misrach
Pace/MacGill Gallery
Opening reception: 6:00pm – 8:00 pm, Thursday, January 14th, 2010

534 West 25th Street
New York, New York

Click here to purchase Aperture issue #193 featuring Richard Misrach’s new  ”Untitled” series

Join Aperture at Art Palm Beach to see new limited-edition books and prints by artists Michal Chelbin, Joel Meyerowitz, Silvio Wolf, and many more. Celebrating its 13th anniversary, Art Palm Beach hosts international galleries presenting contemporary art, photography, video, installation art, public sculpture, and design.

Art Palm Beach
Friday, January 15, 2010 –Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Fair Hours:
January 15–18, 12:00–7:00 pm
January 19, 12:00–6:00 pm

Admission:
One day pass: $15
Multi-day pass: $20
Children under 12 years accompanied by an adult, free of charge

Booth # 618
Palm Beach County Convention Center
650 Okeechobee Boulevard
West Palm Beach, Florida
(239) 495-9834