Detail from Untitled, 2008 by Richard Misrach

Join Aperture for its 2010 Benefit and Auction on November 1st honoring photographer Richard Misrach; collector, philanthropist, former Aperture Trustee Steven Ames; and gallerist Julie Saul. This year’s auction will be Aperture’s largest ever with opportunities to bid on an exciting roster of prints by Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson, Susan Meiselas, Joel Meyerowitz, Curtis Mann, Mickalene Thomas, Paul Strand, James Welling, Hank Willis Thomas and Kehinde Wiley among others.

Directly following the Benefit and Auction, the first-ever SNAP! Benefit Party and Emerging Artists Silent Auction hosted by SNAP!, Aperture’s Young Patrons Program will feature music spun by special guests DJs, an open bar, and great raffle prizes. The Emerging Artists Auction includes rising photographers such as Timothy Briner, Jen Davis, Adam Krause, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Will Steacy and many more.

Click here to preview silent and live auction items

Click here for more details and to purchase tickets to the 2010 Benefit and Auction

Click here for more details and to purchase tickets to the 2010 SNAP! Benefit Party

Untitled, 2008, © Cindy Sherman

With the recession and the Internet age weighing print businesses down, the time has come to consider the current state of the modern magazine and its success for the future. On the occasion of the publication of issue #200, Aperture has organized a bi-coastal conversation on this important subject. Beginning in San Francisco, where the magazine was founded in 1952, the event will be moderated by Aperture Co-Publisher Michelle Dunn Marsh and feature established players in the magazine world including Kyle Blue, Dwell magazine; Zana Woods, Wired magazine; Nion McEvoy, Chronicle Books and Andrew Leland, Believer magazine.

The Storehouse and the Arsenal: The Industry and Creative Environment of Magazine Publishing Today
Thursday, September 30th, 2010 6:00-8:00 pm
Admission: Free, space is limited; please  RSVP to reserve a seat

SF Camerawork
657 Mission Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, California
(415) 512-2020

Click here for more information on this event.

Click here for information on the east coast event that will be held during PhotoPlus Expo in New York City on October 28, 2010.

Photo by Alex Prager

The fall Parsons Lecture Series kicks off this Thursday, September 30th with an artists talk and conversation between photographer Alex Prager and gallerist Yancey Richardson. Alex Prager’s dazzling and saturated color portraits of young women depict a synthetic and surreal glamour. The images reference dark cinema and the melodramatic as conveyed through constructed scenes of suspense and uncertainty. Prager’s work has been shown in gallery’s around the world and this week her work will appear open at Moma’s  New Photography 2010 exhibition. Yancey Richardson, New York City gallerist and prominent fine art photography dealer has exhibited Prager’s work and has over twenty – eight years of experience in the field.

Alex Prager and Yancey Richardson in Conversation
Parsons Lecture Series
Thursday, September 30, 6:30PM

Aperture Gallery & Bookstore
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York

HGTV show Urban Oasis recently paid a visit to Aperture Bookstore and Gallery! The show is hosted by Interior designer Vern Yip and follows the decoration of a luxurious Manhattan high rise apartment, which will be given away to a lucky sweepstakes winner at the end of the show’s season. Vern Yip came to Aperture looking for art for the walls and bookshelves of the season’s dream apartment. Watch the below clip as Aperture Bookstore Manager Paul Corusso gives HGTV a tour of Aperture’s Chelsea loft gallery and bookstore as well as Aperture’s limited edition prints and photography book.

Click here for more information about Aperture’s Limited Edition Prints.

Click here to find out more about HGTV’s Urban Oasis.

Good luck to all the Urban Oasis Apartment Sweepstakes contestants!

Internationally celebrated photographer Gregory Crewdson who appeared in Aperture magazine issue no. 190 (and is a former Aperture Work Scholar ) recently debuted a new series of photographs entitled Sanctuary, opening at Gagosian Gallery in New York. In this new body of work, Crewdson photographs the decaying grandeur of film sets on the back lot of legendary Italian film studio Cinecitta, once the setting of numerous iconic films by filmmakers Federico Fellini and Roberto Rosellini. Captured with striking detail, these black and white images present a different take on ongoing themes of the cinematic, truth and fiction, in the Artist’s work. A catalog of the exhibition is available through Abrams books.

Click here to view Aperture magazine’s featured web content with Crewdson, including exclusive production images and interviews.

The Times Center presents, TimesTalks: Stories & Pictures: Gregory Crewdson, A.O. Scott and Noah Baumbach on Tuesday, October 5th. New York Times film critic A.O. Scott talks about storytelling with film and photography with Academy Award-nominated writer-director Noah Baumbach (“Greenberg”) and renowned photographer Gregory Crewdson (“Beneath the Roses,” “Sanctuary”). Buy tickets here.

Gregory Crewdson: Sanctuary
September 23 – October 30, 2010
980 Madison Avenue
New York, New York

Artist Dulce Pinzón and Aperture Board of Directors Chairman, Celso Gonzales-Falla

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Despite a tornado in Brooklyn and rain in Manhattan the September 16th opening reception for the Paul Strand in Mexico Exhibition as well as the En Foco curated Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices and Selections from En Foco’s Permanent Collection at the Aperture Gallery and Bookstore was a terrific success. Guests were served margaritas and cold Dos Equis, provided by the Mexican Cultural Institute and there was a great turn out of photographers, friends, family and enthusiasts. In addition to the exhibitions on view at Aperture a satellite exhibition Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio featuring twenty gravure plates by Strand is on view at the Bronx Museum. To celebrate, this weekend the Bronx Museum of the Arts is hosting Family Affair: Viva La Vida with family-friendly music, food, and more to help kids learn about this historical happening. Activities and exhibition tours are also to take place.

For more pictures from the event check out Aperture’s facebook album.

Paul Strand in Mexico
On View at Aperture Gallery September 9th – November 13th, 2010

Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices and Selections from En Foco’s Permanent Collection
Exhibition on view: September 16-October 21 2010

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th St, 4th floor
New York, New York

Also on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, presented by Aperture
Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio
September 9th, 2010 – January 2nd, 2011

Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse
Bronx, New York

A Paul Strand in Mexico symposium will take place on October 15–16, 2010. There, James Krippner, author and co-curator of Paul Strand in Mexico, will bring together a distinguished group of international scholars and practitioners from Mexico, the U.K., and the U.S. to discuss Strand’s output during his sojourn in Mexico in the context of Latin-American modernism, revolutionary politics and film of the 1930s, Mexican-American identity, and other topics. Screenings of the newly restored versions of the classic Strand films Redes and Manhatta (1921), and a viewing of the José Clemente Orozco murals at the New School—the only public commission by a Mexican muralist remaining in New York City—will take place as part of the symposium events.

Photo by Yseult Chehata

Recently Aperture Work Scholar’s visited the infamous arts space The Clocktower which was founded by innovator of the alternative space movement Alanna Heiss. The Clocktower, which is situated in downtown Manhattan on the top of a government municipal building is an art space situated inside a literal clock tower. It is the home to Art International Radio as well as a gallery and residency program. Most recently the Clocktower exhibited The Dangerous Book Four Boys the solo show debut of James Franco. Aperture Work Scholars were treated to a curator led tour of Franco’s exhibit and of this exceptional arts space by co-curator of the exhibit and manager of programming for The Clocktower space, Beatrice Johnson.

The October 1st deadline for Aperture’s Spring 2011 session is approaching! Aperture’s work scholar program is a six month opportunity to work closely with the staff of Aperture Foundation. Work scholars contribute to the day to day work flow of the office engaging in Aperture’s many programs and contributing to 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.

Click here for more information about The Clocktower and ArtonAir Radio as well as James Franco’s The Dangerous Book Four Boys

Click here for more information about Aperture’s Work Scholar program and for more details on how to apply

Click here to view the past Work Scholar trip to the Center for Photography at Woodstock

Photo by Paul Strand

Tonight September 16, 2010,  Aperture joins in celebrations to commemorate the bicentennial of Mexico’s Independence with opening receptions for both Paul Stand in Mexico and in collaboration with En Foco, Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices.

Aperture is proud to present Paul Strand in Mexico the exhibition, taking place in two parts, at the Aperture Gallery and at the Bronx Museum, and the accompanying publication, bringing together exquisitely printed infamous and unpublished images, documents, personal notes and film from this poignant period in the famed photographer’s life.

Paul Strand first visited Mexico in 1932 at the invitation of Carlos Chavez, the eminent Mexican composer and conductor. Strand’s sojourn in Mexico, was a time of great creative renewal for the artist-one of intense productivity, and the development of a method of working that would become the foundation of his subsequent endeavors: collective portraits of other lands.

Click here to be notified when the publication becomes available!

Paul Strand in Mexico
On View at Aperture Gallery September 9th – November 13th, 2010
Opening Reception Thursday, September 16th, 6:00 – 8:00pm

Also opening this evening is  En Foco: Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices which explores—via the work of photogrpahers Chuy Benitez, Dulce Pinzon, and Monica Ruzansky—how life and culture are enmeshed. Selections from En Foco’s Permanent Collection will also be on view encompassing work from the past four decades from Chicano, Mexican-American, and Mexican artists.

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th St, 4th floor
New York, New York

Also on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, presented by Aperture
Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio
September 9th, 2010 – January 2nd, 2011

Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse
Bronx, New York

A Paul Strand in Mexico symposium will take place on October 15–16, 2010. There, James Krippner, author and co-curator of Paul Strand in Mexico, will bring together a distinguished group of international scholars and practitioners from Mexico, the U.K., and the U.S. to discuss Strand’s output during his sojourn in Mexico in the context of Latin-American modernism, revolutionary politics and film of the 1930s, Mexican-American identity, and other topics. Screenings of the newly restored versions of the classic Strand films Redes and Manhatta (1921), and a viewing of the José Clemente Orozco murals at the New School—the only public commission by a Mexican muralist remaining in New York City—will take place as part of the symposium events.

Paul Strand in Mexico is coproduced by Aperture Foundation and Televisa Foundation. Paul Strand in Mexico is made possible by the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA), Mexico; National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius; Tinker Foundation; Mexican Cultural Institute of New York; and The John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center at Haverford College.

Dad Having a Nap by Phillip Toledano

Aperture is pleased to present a very special new limited edition print Dad Having a Nap from photographer Phillip Toledano’s critically acclaimed and moving project Days With My Father. Published in book form in June 2010, Days With My Father is a series of photographs documenting the Photographer’s father’s struggle with short term memory loss. Touching, but never intrusive, the work addresses the humor, sadness and hope experienced by father and son during a fleeting period. Initially of a personal nature Days With My Father took on new meanings after it was published on the artist’s website in the summer of 2008. The project website became viral, receiving thousands of visitors each day and inspiring an outpouring of emails and comments from people sharing their own stories. An exhibition of the series, Days With My Father is currently on view at 339 Gallery in Philadelphia through November 6th.

Phillip Toledano’s work appeared in Aperture magazine issue 193 which included a feature on his body of work Phone Sex. The photographer’s most recent series of photographs is currently making its solo show debut at the Klompching gallery in New York. This exhibition entitled A New Kind of Beauty will be on view through October, 29th.

Click here for details on the new Phillip Toledano limited edition.

Phillip Toledano: A New Kind of Beauty
On view September 9th – October 29th, 2010

Klompching gallery
111 Front Street, suite 206
Brooklyn, New York
T: 212-796-2070

In 1982 Aperture published photographer Stephen Shore’s monograph Uncommon Places, a photographic portrait of the American vernacular landscape. The book went on to become a definitive classic, greatly influencing a generation of photographers and considered by many one of the most important photography books of its time. The book was rereleased with previously unseen material in 2004 under the title Uncommon Places: The Complete Works and an accompanying exhibition Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore was launched, touring galleries and museums around the world. Now after six years of touring, Biographical Landscape will make its final and thirteenth stop as part of a survey show entitled Stephen Shore and the New Dusseldorf Photography at NRW-Forum in Dusseldorf, Germany this fall.

When Uncommon Places was republished by Aperture in 2004 the new edition included extensive texts by noted curator and critic Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen and writer Lynne Tillman and was accompanied by images from Shore’s series American Surfaces as well as from his series Amarillo: Tall in Texas. The exhibition Biographical Landscape which complemented this comprehensive second run of the monograph and which has been integrated into a new exhibition by NRW-forum, also includes excerpts from several different bodies of work by Shore including an excerpt from American Surfaces, Shore’s early work shot on a 35mm camera, Shore’s edition of postcards from his work Amarillo, Texas and a collection of photographs featured in Shore’s 1972 exhibit All the Meat You Can Eat. The exhibition is primarily comprised of a selection of 25 prints from Uncommon places as well as twenty one prints from later bodies of work.

New exhibition Stephen Shore and the New Dusseldorf Photography considers the influence of both Shore’s pioneering of color photography and Bernd and Hilla Becher’s innovative typology influenced images on German artists who studied with Bernd Becher between the years of 1976 and 1996. Along with Shore’s bodies of work this exhibition will include works by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, Volker Dohne, Axel Hutte, Andreas Gursky, Claus Goedicke and more.

Stephen Shore and the New Dusseldorf Photography
On view September 11th, 2010 – January 11th, 2011

NRW-Forum
Ehrenhof 2
40479 Dusseldorf, Germany

Click here to purchase Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places: The Complete Works