Copyright Eric Ogden

Award-winning photographer Eric Ogden‘s first solo show opens this Thursday, March 18th at Hous Projects Gallery in New York. Entitled  A Half Remembered Season, this cinematic series of images is inspired by childhood perceptions of wonderment and mystery and is infused with a literary romanticism of American small towns.

Ogden describes his photographs as being “populated with characters that seem haunted by the weight of the past, images that evoke the strangeness of the everyday, and the mystery of objects and landscapes that seem to hold their secrets and allude to stories never quite explained.”

Eric Ogden: A Half Remembered Season
Opening reception: Thursday, March 18, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Exhibition on view: March 18-May 8, 2010

Hous Projects
31 Howard Street, Floor 2
New York, New York

copyright Sarah Palmer

The Wild Project will present a solo show of photographs by Sarah Palmer from her series As a Real House curated by Kate Greenberg and Hilary Shaffner. Palmer’s disparate series of images explores themes of “remembrance, identity and invention,” juxtaposing photographs of small scale installation with snapshots of the stumbled upon instance.

As A Real House
Photographs by Sarah Palmer

Opening reception: Thursday, March 18, 6:00-8:00 pm
Exhibition on view: March 18-May 15, 2010

The Wild Project 195 East 3rd Street, between A and B                                                                                                                                            New York, New York

Aperture Books publisher Lesley A. Martin is the juror for this years Photography Now exhibit at The Center for Photography at Woodstock. This annual exhibition is a great opportunity for emerging photographers to have their work seen by other members of the photography community. The deadline for entries is Wednesday, March 31st, 2010.

For more information click here
or you can call 1-845-679-9957
or email info@cpw.org

Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf spoke at Aperture Gallery and Bookstore in the fall of 2008, on the occasion of the release of his self-titled Aperture monograph.

Inspired by Olaf’s new series “Hotel, Dusk and Dawn,” currently on view at New York photography gallery Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, we went into our video archive full of the many wonderful talks, lectures and conversations with photographers, curators and scholars, that have taken place at Aperture over the years, to bring you this in-depth look into Olaf’s work.

In this edited excerpt Olaf compares the orchestration of his complex shoots and the creation of his images of fantasy, similarly to the work of a film director. In the aftermath of 9/11 Olaf constructed several nostalgic photographic series depicting an”America” in the tradition of artist Norman Rockwell and 1960′s glamour. Olaf used this work to explore several psychological themes that commented on both the past and the present. Olaf also talks about what he values in portraits, describing how he captures intimate and candid images of his models while they are in character.

For the full artist’s talk click here:
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Buy Erwin Olaf’s Self-titled Monograph

Copyright Kohei Yoshiyuki

Kohei Yoshiyuki’s series The Park, featured in Aperture Issue #188, will be exhibited for the first time on the West Coast at M+B gallery. These controversial photographs of couples having sex and their voyeurs were taken in parks in Tokyo during the 1970s. Also included in the exhibition are images from Love Hotel, a series of video stills made at rooms-by-the-hour hotels.

Opening reception:
Saturday, March 13, 2010
6:00-8:00 pm

Exhibition on view:
March 13-April 17, 2010

M+B
612 North Almont Drive
Los Angeles, CA

Don’t miss your last chance to get tickets to the SNAP! Out of Winter Party on March 19, in support of the Aperture Emerging Artists Fund. You will get to mingle with Aperture artists and friends, swing to live jazz by The Cangelosi Cards, savor fine scotch by Dewar’s and Chandon bubbly while enjoying delicious signature cakes, and more.

Enter to win a chance to pose for an instant 20×24 portrait at the Polaroid photo booth as well as spectacular raffle prizes including Martin Parr’s limited-edition Objects Box; Polaroid digital camera, video camera, and printer; an exquisite Paul Strand classic print;  a SNAP! membership; and a collection of signed Aperture monographs.

Ticket holders at the $250 level (admits 2) and the $200 level (admits 1) will also receive a limited-edition print (pictured above) exclusively produced for this event by renowned photographer Dan Winters and a subscription to the award-winning Aperture magazine.

SNAP! members will receive discounted admission tickets, so now is a great time to join.

WHEN AND WHERE:

Friday, March 19, 2010
9:00 pm–Midnight

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

Party tickets, including one Dan Winters print and 
Aperture magazine subscription:

$250 (admission for two)

$200 (admission for one)

Regular party tickets:

$150 (admission for two)

$100 (admission for one)

Copyright Marc Riboud

Photographer Marc Riboud, featured in Aperture issue #198, currently has an exhibition at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Center for Photography. Riboud has been a member of Magnum for over 50 years and is considered one of the greatest photojournalists of the 20th century. After the reception tomorrow, hear him speak and have your book signed.

Reception:
Friday, March 12, 2010
6:00-7:00 pm

Lecture:
Friday, March 12, 2010
7:00-8:00 pm

Exhibition on view:
February 9-May 1, 2010

UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism:
North Gate Hall Room 105
121 North Gate Hall
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

Following Art Week, Exposures presents a short listing of exhibitions now on view in New York.

copyright Robin Schwartz

In honor of Women’s History Month, Humble Arts foundation in association with Affirmation Arts will present its second edition of 31 Women in Art Photography, a five-week exhibition with 31 of the most innovative women in new art photography. The exhibition, curated by Charlotte Cotton and Jon Feinstein, will present an eclectic mix of new talent, culled from open submissions. The show features Robin Schwartz, whose publication Amelias World was published in Aperture’s Tinyvices-curated book series, Sarah Palmer, Emily Shur, Paula McCartney among others.

31 Women in Art Photography
On view through April 10, 2010

Affirmation Arts
523 W. 37th Street
New York, NY, 10018

Buy Robin Shwartz’s Amelias World

copyright Ruben Natal-San Miguel

Photographer and curator Ruben Natal – San Miguel will be exhibiting his series Concrete Jungle at the gallery Kris Graves Project, presenting five years of street photography that celebrates inner city life in New York.

NY, NY: Concrete Jungle
On view through April 10, 2010

Kris Graves Projects
111 Front Street, Suite 224
Brooklyn, NY, 11201

copyright Michael Corridore

Aperture Foundation is proud to present the series Angry Black Snake, photographs by 2008 Aperture Portfolio Prize winner Michael Corridore, please join us for artist reception at the Aperture Foundation this Thursday, March 11th.

In the words of Aperture books publisher Lesley A. Martin, “Corridore’s project, Angry Black Snake, is an exercise in minimalism. Each image has been pared down to the barest of elements—urgent gestures and barely traceable figures cloaked in smoke and dust. Yet each image pulses with palpable emotional tension, telegraphed by these barest of representational sketches and the subtle shifting colors of the clouds that descend upon each scene like a flimsy curtain.”

Angry Black Snake
Opening reception Thursday, March 11, 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Aperture Foundation
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York

Copyright Zwelethu Mthethwa

Photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa, whose self-titled monograph was just released by Aperture, will return to his Alma-mater Rochester Institute of Technology to speak this coming Thursday, March 11th.

Mthethwa recently spoke about his work at Aperture Foundation with curator Okwui Enwezor. There was a full house for the talk which was a great success, read the PDN Pulse review of the event here.

Mthethwa’s large scale photographs of the surrounding areas of South African cities shed light on many aspects of South Africa from domestic life and the environment, to landscape and labor issues. His portraits, made in collaboration with his subjects, infuse documentary and portraiture traditions with bright color, fresh perspectives and dignity.

Zwelethu  Mthethwa has had over thirty five solo exhibitions around the world. His work has been featured in the 2005 Venice Biennial, 2008 Prospect. 1 New Orleans and Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent. He is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York and lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

Zwelethu Mthethwa Artist’s Talk
Thursday, March 11, 7:00PM

Chester F. Carlson Auditorium, RIT Campus
54 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY, 12623

Gateway, Hidalgo, Mexico, 1933 by Paul Strand

The Anthology Film Archives will be screening four films featuring Paul Strand as co-director, co-creator or cinematographer in a series entitled Leo Hurwitz and the New York School of Documentary Film running March 10th through March 19th.

Anthology is presenting the screenings as a retrospective of the influential New York School of Documentary Film, focusing on films made between the years of 1931 and 1942 that helped to define the genre of narrative documentary as we know it today.

While the series centers on filmmaker Leo Hurwitz, four of the films were made collaboratively with photographer Paul Strand including the celebrated Native Land for which Strand was cinematographer, a film that exposed “union busting and the tactics of massive corporate labor spying” and featured commentary by Paul Robeson.

For more information on these historical screenings click here

Leo Hurwitz and the New York School of Documentary Film
Anthology Film Archives
March 10 – March 19, 2010

Screening times for films featuring Paul Strand:

Wednesday, March 10, 8:45pm
The Wave (Redes) (1936, 60 minutes, 35mm)

Thursday, March 11, 8:00pm
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936, 28 minutes, 35mm)

Thursday, March 11, 9:15pm & Tuesday, March 16, 7:15pm
Heart of Spain (1937, 30 minutes, 16mm)

Friday, March 12, 6:45pm & Tuesday, March 16, 9:15pm
Native Land (1942, 88 minutes, 16mm)

View Aperture’s Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs

Attendees of Aperture Foundation’s reception for the exhibition No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography (currently on view at the Aperture Gallery and at Instituto Cervantes) were audience to a thrilling and moving performance by the influential contemporary Flamenco dancer Pastora Galván.

No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography is curated by José Lebrero Stals and covers more than one hundred and fifty years of images, presenting an extensive survey of how photographers of different eras have approached the universe of flamenco, whether documenting the dance itself, gestures that recall it, or the culture that has developed around it.

Please enjoy the following edited excerpt of Galván’s performance and be sure to explore the No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography exhibition in-person at both Aperture Gallery and Instituto Cervantes.

Stop by the Aperture Gallery this Saturday, March 6th, for Aperture’s  Armory Brunch and peruse the images from this historic show as well as greet other members of the Aperture community. The event will feature exclusives on books and limited edition prints and special appearances by photographers including Zwelethu Mthethwa, Eirik Johnson, Susan Meiselas, Doug Dubois, Donna Ferrato, Joel Meyerowitz, Jacqueline Hassink, and Gillian Laub. Refreshments will be served.

No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography
On view through April 1st

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
Monday – Saturday: 10:00am – 6:00pm

Amster Yard Gallery at Instituto Cervantes
211 East 49th Street
New York, New York
Monday – Friday: 10:30am-6:30pm
Saturday: 10:30am-1:30pm

View the New York Times Review of No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography