© Trevor Paglen

Now Available! Trevor Paglen’s long-awaited first photographic monograph, Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes, which highlights the array of tactics Paglen uses to depict both what can and cannot be seen.  A contributing essay by Rebecca Solnit offers insight into the history of clandestine military activity on the American landscape.

Social scientist, artist, writer, and provocateur, Paglen has been exploring the secret activities of the U.S. military and intelligence agencies for the last eight years.  Most recently, upon the release of Invisible, Paglen has been highlighted on the blog The Spinning Head, the Washington Post, The National and The New Yorker blog. Paglen’s work was originally published as the cover story titled, Disappearances: The Photographs of Trevor Paglen in  Aperture magazine Issue 191.

Click here to purchase Invisible.

Click here to visit Paglen’s blog.

Beijing Xilu, Jingan District, Shanghai, 2004 by Sze Tsung Leong

Ecoaesthetic, a group show on view at Exit art, focuses on artworks by 9 artists whose works confront the impact of war, industrialization and deforestation on the environment. The images included in the exhibition depict both the tragic results of human destructiveness while simultaneously indicating visual aesthetics of eco-degradation. Ecoaesthetic is part of a new initiative from Exit Art called SEA (Social-Environmental Aesthetics) that looks to present a diverse multimedia exhibition program and permanent archive of artworks that address social and environmental concerns. Included in the exhibition are photographs by David Maisel, featured in Aperture magazine issue 172 and Sze Tsung Leong featured in Aperture magazine issue 183.

Ecoaesthetic: The Tragedy of Beauty
June 18 – August 28, 2010

Exit Art
475 Tenth Ave
New York, NY, 10018

cover photo by Zwelethu Mthethwa

Zwelethu Mthethwa was recently featured on Flak Photo’s (http://www.flakphoto.com) Weekend Series (a weekly feature highlighting new photo essays, book projects and gallery exhibitions) and now Flakphoto has partnered with Aperture to give away three copies of Zwelethu Mthethwa’s new monograph to facebook fans.

Mthethwa’s recent self-titled monograph and exhibition Inner Views at The Studio Museum in Harlem have received widespread critical acclaim. The New York Daily News writes that Mthethwa’s images of domestic life, the landscape and labor issues in urban and rural South Africa demonstrate “The power that homes can have on our souls” and The New York Times writes the work provides “A refreshingly intimate look at South African life.”

To enter Flakphoto’s book give away, browse the Flak Photo Gallery and post a link to one of your favorite photographs in the comments of Flak Photo’s books give away page before August 1st at 11:59pm. Three fans will be randomly selected from the submitted posts to receive their complimentary copies.

Click here to learn more about Zwelethu Mthethwa’s self-titled monograph

Click here for more information on Flakphoto’s book give away

This past weekend Aperture work-scholar’s made the trip up to Woodstock, New York to visit The Center for Photography at Woodstock as well as to see the Slideluck Potshow (a traveling photography slide show and potluck celebration) which was hosted at the Center that evening. CPW Executive director Ariel Shanberg gave work-scholars a tour of the center and discussed the different kinds of resources the Center provides for the international photography community, including residencies, juried publications and exhibitions, workshops with master photographers and darkroom and digital labs.

The Center for Photography at Woodstock’s gallery space is open to the public and this Saturday the second part of a two part exhibition curated by Aperture’s Lesley A. Martin goes on view. The show is called Either/And and it considers our contemporary moment in photography in two installments: The New Skew (June 12 – July 18) and The New Docugraphics (July 26 – August 29).

The New Docugraphics
Opening reception 5:00 – 7:00 PM Saturday, July 24
On view July 26 – August 29

The Center for Photography at Woodstock
59 Tinker Street,
Woodstock, NY, 12498
(845)-679-9957

Click here to learn more about Aperture’s work-scholar program

Click here to read more about the exhibition Either/And at CPW

Photo by Elina Ruka

Aperture’s board of directors has announced the appointment of new director of development Linda L. Truesdale who comes to the foundation with twenty years of experience as a fundraising professional. Most recently, she held the position of Director of Development at The Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson and has worked with such clients as the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music; Mark Twain House; Alzheimer’s Association of Northern New Jersey; and Bomb magazine. As Director of Development, Ms. Truesdale’s primary responsibility is to provide overall strategy and leadership in the planning, implementation, and management of Aperture’s diverse and comprehensive fundraising program.

Click here to learn about ways to get involved in the support of Aperture’s programs.

Click here to learn about Aperture’s 2010 Benefit and Auction.

© Nan Goldin

Up Close, a photography exhibition curated by Natalie King at the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Australia, will bring together works by Carrol Jemmens, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang. The exhibition considers images that provide a glimpse into semi-private worlds with close up depictions of people and their surroundings. The show will include Nan Goldin’s classic body of work The Ballad of Sexual Dependency in which the artist captured friends, lovers and families with colorful and strikingly intimate snapshots, originally published by Aperture twenty years ago.

Up Close
July 31 – October 31, 2010

Heide Museum of Modern Art
7 Templestowe Road
Bulleen Victoria 3105 Australia

Click here to purchase Nan Goldin’s book The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

“Welcome to the Gerry and John show” Aperture editor Denise Wolff stated in her introduction to Gerry Badger and John Gossage’s recent conversation at Aperture Foundation. Both Badger and Gossage have each been in the field of fine art photography for over thirty years and established acclaimed careers. Gerry Badger as a critic and author whom has written for dozens of periodicals and coauthored with Martin Parr The Photobook: A History, Volumes I and II, and John Gossage as a photographer with seventeen published photo books and work in several public collections.  They also happen to be old friends. Take a listen to this podcast of Badger and Gossage discussing The Pleasures of Good Photographs.

Click the links below to listen to the Gerry Badger and John Gossage Podcast:

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Gerry Badger’s recent book of essays The Pleasures of Good Photographs compiles the writer’s evocative meditations on thought provoking classic and contemporary images by a range of photographers from Dorothea Lange and Eugéne Atget to Martin Parr, Luc Delahaye, Susan Lipper, and Paul Graham.

Also this Fall Aperture will be reissuing John Gossage’s classic title, The Pond.

Photo by Paul Strand

In Focus: Still Life, a survey of still life’s in photography will be exhibited this fall at The Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The exhibition will explore innovative and transformative still life’s from the history of photography, pointing to examples of experimentation as well as conventions of the form. The show will feature images by such seminal photographers as Paul Strand, Josef Sudek, Paul Outerbridge who was featured in Aperture magazine issue 152, Hans Bellmer who was featured in Aperture magazine isssue 189, Edward Weston and more.

In Focus: Still Life
September 14, 2010 – January 23, 2011

The J. Paul Getty Museum
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 400
Los Angeles, California
310-440-7360

Copyright Arthur Ou

Looking to get out of the city for a day? Take a trip to Mount Tremper Arts in the Catskill Mountains and see Seven Summits, the group photography exhibition featured during their Summer Festival. The exhibition highlights the practice of artists whose adventuresome spirit leads them straight to the source of their subject matter, whether it be found inside the studio or across the country. Seven Summits features fourteen pieces by seven artists, including Artur Ou from the Center for Photographic Media and Culture at Parsons The New School for Design which currently has an exhibition on view at Aperture Gallery, States of Flux. Also featured in the show are works by artists Roe Etheridge and Miranda Lichtenstein.

Mount Tremper Arts was founded by photographer Mathew Pokoik and choreographer Aynsley Vanderbroucke is a multi-disciplinary non-profit that supports contemporary artists in the creation and presentation of new works of art.

Seven Summits
Open on Sundays 12:00 – 6:00pm
July 10 – August 15, 2010

Mount Tremper Arts
647 South Plank Road
MOunt Tremper, New York

Click here to see a full list of events at Mount Trempner Summer Festival.

© Stanley Greene

As part of the IRIS Nights Lecture Series hosted by The Annenberg Center for Photography in LA, Stanley Greene — photographer of Black Passport — will be showing and speaking about his work throughout his career on Thursday, July 22.  The program is offered free of charge, and attendees need to register online to reserve a spot.

Stanley Greene was born in New York in 1949. As a teenager, Greene was a member of the Black Panthers and an anti-Vietnam War activist.  He has photographed wars and poverty in Africa, the former Soviet Union, Central America, Asia and the Middle East.

Stanley Greene
Thursday, July 22, 6:30 – 8:00 pm

The Annenberg Space for Photography
2000 Avenue of the Stars, #10
Los Angeles, CA 90067

Click here for more information and to make a reservation