0775, 2006, © James Welling
Photo courtesy of Regen Projects, Los Angeles

Phillip Johnson’s modernist architectural masterpiece Glass House lives on through the photographic work of James Welling in New Pictures 3: Glass House. With the effect of color filters in Welling’s digital camera, the light that constantly pours into the house gives the space a vibrantly ethereal glow. Hues of red, yellow, and sometimes the entire rainbow spectrum are used. What to the naked eye would appear to be reality is morphed and enhanced in New Pictures 3 into a realm of visual delight; a new perspective on an architectural site.

New Pictures 3: Glass House
On view: August 19 2010 – March 7, 2011

Newman Lecture on Contemporary Photography with James Welling
Thursday, October 14th, 2010 6:00 – 7:00 pm, Pilsbury Auditorium

Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Harrison Photography Gallery (365)
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
(612) 870-3000

Photo by Dave Anderson

Fovea’s latest exhibit is a powerful portrait of post-Katrina New Orleans as seen through the prism of a single city block whose residents are attempting to rebuild their homes. Using portraiture and still lifes, Anderson explores the very nature of community while testing its resilience.

Anderson’s compassionate treatment of the neighborhood’s difficult circumstances has drawn comparisons to the work of Dorothea Lange and other Farm Security Administration-funded photographers. Seventy years later, between the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina and the current housing crisis, the stability and permanence of the American home is once again in jeopardy. One Block reflects Anderson’s affection for New Orleans and his fascination with the power of human resilience – both individually and collectively.

Dave Anderson has been recognized as “one of the shooting stars of the American photo scene” by Germany’s fotoMAGAZIN and named a “Rising Star” by Photo District News. A multi-talented image-maker, Dave worked in the Clinton White House and at MTV before discovering photography. His acclaimed first project, “Rough Beauty” was the winner of the 2005 National Project Competition awarded by Center, Santa Fe and was published with an essay by Anne Wilkes Tucker. Vince Aletti of the New Yorker has called his work “as clear-eyed and unsentimental as it is soulful and sympathetic.” Anderson’s work has been featured in magazines from Esquire to Stern and can be found in the collections of prominent museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; the Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. As a filmmaker, Dave’s original video series, “SoLost,” shot for The Oxford American, was recently named a finalist at the 2010 National Magazine Awards.

One Block: A Neighborhood Rebuilds
Opening reception: Saturday, October 9, 2010, 5:00-9:00 pm
Exhibition on view: October 9, 2010-January 2, 2011

Fovea Exhibitions
143 Main Street
Beacon, NY 12508
(845) 765-2199

Click here for more information about Dave Anderson.

Click here to purchase a copy of One Block.

Visit the website with interviews with One Block residents.

Bruce Davidson and Michelle Dunn Marsh, opening for La Nature de Paris, Maison Europénne de la Photographie, Paris, 2007

When I first started working at Aperture, one of my greatest challenges was reconciling the incredible photographs I’d pored over in publications with the flesh-and-blood people who’d created them. It was hard to imagine that an image, indelible in my mind and impacting audiences around the world, was not a divine manifestation, but rather the result of an extraordinary eye, often a steady hand, and a camera.

With time and through various professional opportunities at Aperture I have been privileged to meet many of my photographic heroes, and some have become important personal connections in my life-checking in with me after a recent trip, inquiring about my latest project, filling me in on their next exhibition or planned photo excursion. Bruce Davidson is one of these guiding lights, and I never pass up the opportunity to dine with him or to work with him.

When I first met with key people from the Levi’s® Workshop series to discuss a possible collaboration with Aperture, I was jotting down their goals in my notebook, along with the first names of photographers I thought might be a good fit. One of the people happened to glance down as I was writing and said excitedly, “You just wrote ‘Bruce.’ That wouldn’t be Bruce Davidson, would it?” When I confirmed, the brainstorming portion of the process was over-Levi’s® wanted to work with us if we could find a way to work with Bruce. And fortunately, Bruce was open to the idea of an event that focused on photography in New York, since he’s created so many important photographs here.

To hear Bruce Davidson’s stories in person and to see his selection of photographs from over fifty years of image-making is always a gift, and we are glad to facilitate the opportunity to share that gift with his friends, colleagues, and fans in New York on December 9 at the Levi’s® Photo Workshop.

-Michelle Dunn Marsh

Co-Publisher, Aperture magazine

Click here for more information on the Bruce Davidson Artist Talk and Book Signing.

photo by Shen Su

This week is the Flash Forward Festival in Toronto, a five-day biennial event presented by the Magenta Foundation which showcases works by up and coming emerging artists. This year Aperture is pleased to present the group exhibition reGeneration 2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today and its accompanying recently released catalog at the festival. Culled from top university and art school programs around the world by curators from the Musee de l’Elysee in Lausanne, Switzerland, reGeneration 2 turns the spotlight on young photographers of promise from thirty-one countries. The works featured in reGeneration 2 presents the diverse ways technology and a changing world are affecting the practice of photography while collectively exemplifying that the medium is alive and well and that new talent are well on their way to leaving their mark.

reGeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today
Exhibition on view: Wednesday, October 6, 2010 – Sunday, October 10, 2010

Flash Forward Festival 2010
Toronto’s Liberty Village
171 East Liberty Street Market, Unit 102
Toronto, Canada

Inspired by the many artists from the original reGeneration project who went on the develop international careers, Aperture is now offering limited-edition prints by several of the 2010 volume’s participating artists. The proceeds from the sale of these prints will help support these emerging artists and give collectors an opportunity to acquire their work early in their careers.

View all limited-edition photographs from reGeneration 2 artists

Click here to buy the book ReGeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today

Morrissey ruined my life, 2009 by Adam Krause

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November 1st is Aperture’s 2010 Benefit and Auction. This year immediately following the Benefit will be the first ever SNAP! Benefit Party. Hosted by SNAP! The Aperture Foundation Young Patrons Program, this event is an exciting addition to the evening. Co-chaired by artist Hank Willis Thomas, Carolyn Francis and Giovanni Tomaselli of Polaroid, sponsor of SNAP!, there will be a silent auction of works by emerging artists including Jen Davis, Adam Krause, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Will Steacy, among others. The event will be spun by downtown fixtures, special guest DJs AJ Slim, Tim Barber of Tinyvices.com and Jeannie Hopper of LiquidSoundLounge.com and ArtOnAir.org. Featuring a raffle and a chance to win a number of luxury prizes, SNAP! Benefit Party will both be a celebration for Aperture artists, friends and patrons as well as a chance to support Aperture’s many valuable programs.

Click here for more information about the SNAP! Benefit Party and to buy your ticket

Click here for more information about Aperture’s 2010 Benefit and Auction

Click here to preview the Auction print list online. Online bidding on silent auction items begins October 18th!

Black Out Copy by Sarah Anne Johnson

Tomorrow evening photographer Sarah Anne Johnson will give an artist’s talk at Aperture bookstore and gallery as part of the Parsons lecture series. Johnson’s work integrates multiple mediums including sculptural and performance elements along with painting and printmaking to create her images. Tree Planting, a series of photographs by Johnson recently featured in Guggenheim group show, Haunted, exemplifies the artist’s multi-media approach to photography and to narrative. In sixty five images the artist depicts a summer spent planting trees in de-forrested Manitoba, a common Canadian rite of passage. Moving between photographs documenting the physical lived experience and photographed scenes of small scale models reenacting moments that happened in real life, the work builds apon and evolves the use of sets, props and theater in photography. Johnson is represented by the Julie Saul gallery in New York and Stephen Bulger gallery in Toronto.

Sarah Anne Johnson: Parsons Lecture Series
Tuesday, October 5, 6:30 pm

Aperture Bookstore and Gallery
547 West 27th street
New York, New York

The deadline for applications to the Spring 2011 Work Scholar program has been extended to Monday, October 4th. The Work Scholar program at Aperture is a unique opportunity to be introduced to the many facets of the photography, non-profit and publishing fields. Following placement in each of Aperture’s departments, Work Scholars are involved in a range of tasks in the areas of design, editing, circulation, development, sales and marketing. The program also includes a number of special events, curator-led tours of exhibits, special studio visits with Aperture artists and a chance to get involved in the arts and photo world in New York. In the 2010 Spring session Work Scholars visited Mary Ellen Mark’s studio and were given a tour of Guggenheim show Haunted by the exhibition’s curator among other behind the scenes tours.

Click here for more information on Aperture’s Work Scholar program including how to apply

Cambridge England (Cocktails on carpet), 2005, © Martin Parr
Photo courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Group exhibition Embarassment of Riches explores the different applications of wealth in recent day and age around the world through photography and other media works. While the monetary status of some countries today flourishes steadily, many others remain in a state of flux – surging and quickly falling. Contemporary artists, including Jacqueline Hassink, Martin Parr, Cindy Sherman, and Sze Tsung Leong, give visual insight to a culture within a culture: an elite group scattered globally that can buy endlessly and not think twice, wine and dine with the utmost sophistication, and transform the appearance of themselves and the cities they live in. Abundant and sometimes excessive in prosperity at first, these lifestyles can be fleeting and their effects tumultuous. Embarrassment of Riches is a commentary on society and its rich inhabitants from the past decade.

Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealth, 2000-2010
On view Thursday, September 16, 2010 – Sunday, January 2, 2011

Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Harrison Photography Gallery (365)
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
(612) 870-3000