Image by Daniel Gordon

Daniel Gordon Artist Talk at Aperture

Artist Daniel Gordon will discuss his large-scale color photographs and unique process at Aperture tomorrow as part of the Parsons Lecture series. Gordon’s work was most recently featured in MoMA/PS1′s Greater NY show. The artist’s collage imagery which has been described by Conscientious blog’s Joerg Colberg as falling in the “somewhat disturbing part of the spectrum,” has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries.

Parsons Lecture Series: Daniel Gordon
6:30 PM, Tuesday, November 30th

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

Image by Hank Willis Thomas

A Conversation with Leslie Hewitt and Hank Willis Thomas

Tomorrow evening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, artists Leslie Hewitt and Hank Willis Thomas will appear in conversation with Eva Respini, associate curator of MoMA’s photography department. This talk is the latest installment of the museum’s panel discussion series Conversations: Among Friends which brings artists, scholars and curators together in consideration of Art’s political and social contexts. Leslie Hewitt, was featured in Aperture published essay collection Words Without Pictures. Hank Willis Thomas’ monograph Pitch Blackness was released by Aperture in 2008.

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A Conversation with Leslie Hewitt and Hank Willis Thomas
November 30, 6:45 pm doors,

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
New York, New York

Image by Richard Misrach

Richard Misrach at SF Camerawork

Richard Misrach’s book tour for recent release and critically acclaimed publication Destroy This Memory continues tomorrow night at SF Camerawork in San Francisco. Recently called a “Masterpiece” by writer Geoff Dyer in the Financial Times, Destroy This Memory presents an affecting reminder of the physical and psychological impact of Hurricane Katrina capturing the grafitti and messages scrawled by survivor’s on walls during the Hurricane’s tragic aftermath. The talk will be followed by a book signing and artist’s reception.

Lecture and Book Signing with Richard Misrach
November 30th, 7:00 pm

SF Camerawork
657 Mission Street 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA

Issue 201 features:

An age-old German pagan festival is documented by Axel Hoedt (cover image).

Photojournalist Lynsey Addario covers new terrain in her war photography—women soldiers on and off duty in Afghanistan.

Custom-built cameras by Aïm Deüelle Lüski offer a unique exploration of the medium and the ongoing conflict in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Lucia Nimcova culls leftover images from the photographic archives of Socialist Czechoslovakia to understand the stories within stories.

An interview with famed Parisian photographer Willy Ronis, shortly before his death.

Contemporary photography from Taiwan, from a dynamic group of artists.

Roger Ballen‘s cryptic images from his new project, The Asylum.

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HumanKind, a juried invitational photo exhibition presented by the New York Photo Festival in partnership with Leo Burnett, is looking for images that speak to the human experience in a social, cultural and personal context. The jury includes James Estrin, Co-Editor, New York Times Lens Blog; Alisa Wolfson, Design Director, Leo Burnett, Chicago; Marc Prüst, Photography Consultant; Alfredo Cramerotti, Associate Curator, Format International Photo Festival & Editor, Critical Photography book series; Dr. Christos Lynteris, Social Anthropology Department, University of St. Andrews, UK; and Sam Barzilay, Festival Director, New York Photo Festival.

120 images will be selected and exhibited at The powerHouse Arena in Dumbo Brooklyn, which opens on December 17, 2010 and will run until January 20, 2011.

The top three prizes will win:

• An exclusive portfolio review session with an award-winning Creative Director of Leo Burnett
• A one-on-one critique session with Daniel Power, Founder & CEO of powerHouse Books, and Chairman of the New York Photo Festival
• Free Participation to the 7th Annual powerHouse Portfolio Review

Hurry! The submission deadline is approaching: Sunday, November 28, 2010 @ midnight (PST)

HumanKind
December 17, 2010-Janary 20, 2011

The powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 666-3049

Click here for more information about HumanKind.

Susan Meiselas, Aperture's New Executive Director, Chris Boot, and Aperture's Chairman Celso Gonzalez-Falla

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Paris Photo 2010 focusing on Central Europe has closed its doors last Sunday. It was an exciting and successful edition and we would like to specially thank the artists who joined for daily book signings at our booth, including Susan Meiselas, Gary Schneider, Sylvia Plachy, and Paolo Ventura. Many fans gathered for the signings and enjoyed meeting the artists in person.

Rendezvous next year for Paris Photo 2011 with the spotlight on the African photographic scene.

Special thanks to the locals Xavier, Karine, Nathalie, Christine, Thomas and Claude for their great help throughout the fair!

Work Scholar Anne Lewis installing Alexander Gronsky's photographs

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Being an exhibitions Work Scholar at Aperture, one has the opportunity to learn the entire process of getting an exhibition onto the walls of a gallery from start to finish. I work closely with Exhibitions Manager Annette Booth and in addition, collaborate with the Design and Editorial departments to help format wall text and captions, work with art handlers to get the job done, as well as coordinate with the exhibition’s curator.

The past few weeks, Annette and I have been busying installing the exhibitions now on view, The Spanish National Photography Prize: Connections and Confrontations as well as Aperture Portfolio Prize Winner Alexander Gronsky’s The Edge. In the weeks leading up to last Friday’s opening reception Spanish curators Carmen de la Guerra and Javier Diez traveled to New York to work on sequencing. Carmen and Annette pared the selection down from around 70 works to a final 49. While they were busy with that, myself and a few other Work Scholars assisted in sequencing Alexander Gronsky’s smaller show of 8 works in the bookstore. Art handlers, Phil and Roger worked with us to hang the different pieces. The day before the opening is always dedicated to getting captions and wall text up, and finally setting the lighting.

At the opening reception, the Spanish National Photography Prize exhibit’s curators led a gallery tour. It was really rewarding to see people enjoying the exhibition we worked so hard on. Annette is a master of installing exhibitions, especially since she began her career at Aperture 7 years ago as a Work Scholar! It is a great opportunity to learn from someone who was once in my shoes.

This Work Scholar post is by Exhibitions Work Scholar Anne Lewis.

Anne is a recent graduate of Tufts University where she studied Art History and International Relations. Her favorite Aperture books are Travelers and Paris-New York-Shanghai. Aside from photography she has a secret interest in cultural property law, loves to swim, and is an Olympics enthusiast.

Click here to learn more about Aperture’s Work Scholar program

On Tuesday, November 22, in Milan, author, editor and founder of Goliga Books Ivan Vartanian will give a talk on Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s (Vartanian curated Aperture’s 2009 survey book Japanese Photobooks of the 1960′s and 70s) at the Micamera bookstore. Over the course of the evening Vartanian will be showing some 20 photobooks from this pivotal moment in the medium’s history, discussing printing techniques, design and layout, typography as well as the societal and political issues that were at play. During the 1960s and ’70s the photobook came to be considered the final form of a photographers work leading to a books-making renaissance during which photographers such as Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe, Shomei Tomatsu, Takuma Nakahira among others made many classic, experimental and daring works that remain influential today.

An Evening with Ivan Vartanian
Tuesday November 23rd, 7:00 pm

Micamera Bookstore
Via Medardo Rosso, 19
Milan, Italy
p: +02.45.48.15.69

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Click here to purchase Eikoh Hosoe’s Kamaitachi

Roger Ballen, Fragments, 2005

South African artist Roger Ballen is known for his cryptic photographs, some of which even he doesn’t completely understand. His new collection of images, Documentary Fiction, is no different. Currently on show at the Photographer.ru Gallery in Moscow, Ballen’s exhibition focuses on the eerie ambiguity of asylums and places of discontent. With disturbing reinterpretations of still life, Ballen adds to the riddle of his photographs animate and inanimate objects. Animals, appendages, food scraps, graffiti and anything else of interest are scattered throughout the frame, often haphazardly. The works in Documentary Fiction are comprised of thousands and thousands of parts according to Ballen, but it’s up to the viewer how they should be pieced together… if they can be at all.

The new Aperture Issue 201 features an article on the same Ballen photography project, with accompanying text by Walter Guadagnini.

Roger Ballen: Documentary Fiction
On view: Thursday September 16 – Sunday November 28th, 2010

Photographer.ru Gallery
4-th Syromyatnicheskiy pereulok, 1. str. 6, Moscow
+7 (495) 228-11-70

Bert Teunissen and John Gossage at Paris Photo Opening

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The 2010 edition of the world’s largest photography fair kicked off last Wednesday to a crowded opening, palpable withexcitement. Many artists including Josef Koudelka, Todd Hido, and Michael Wolf, photo professionals and enthusiasts dropped by the Aperture booth [A36]. On Thursday, John Gossage and Gerry Badger put on a show to the great enjoyment of the visitors for the first book signing at our booth. Don’t miss upcoming book signings with Susan Meiselas, Paolo Ventura, Sylvia Plachy and Gary Schneider.

Preceding Paris Photo, Aperture opened an exhibition of our limited-edition prints at Montblanc’s flagship store with prints by Michael Wolf, Edgar Martins, among others. Several artists, trustees and Aperture fans enjoyed the opening reception in a swanky and friendly atmosphere.

Click here for more information on the Paris Photo signings

Aperture’s annual holiday sale kicks off this week! This holiday season get discounts on  limited-edition prints by  photography’s top image makers, Aperture’s award winning books and gift subscriptions to Aperture magazine.

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This Friday two new exhibitions open at Aperture Gallery and Bookstore:

Photo by Joan Colom

The Spanish National Photography Prize: Connections and Confrontations presented by Aperture in collaboration with the Spanish Ministry of Culture will debut for the first time in the United States at Aperture’s gallery. This exhibit brings together sixty-five works by fifteen Spanish photographers and winners of the Ministry of Culture’s National Photography Prize. The show seeks to collectively consider the evolution of Spain’s photographic and creative history.

Photo by Alexander Gronsky

Alexander Gronsky’s The Edge will also be on view. Gronsky is the 2009 Aperture Portfolio Prize winner, this will be his solo show debut in New York. The artist’s photographs of Moscow capture the ambiguity of idyllic-like spots which upon close examination are revealed to be nestled in the midst of urban metropolis. These spaces where city dwellers find solace in nature interact with, but do not seem connected to, their greater contexts.

The Spanish National Photography Prize: Connections and Confrontations
also on view:
The Edge, Photographs by Alexander Gronsky
Opening Reception: Friday, November 19, 2010, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
On View: Saturday, November 20, 2010 – Tuesday, January 11, 2011

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