Souvenier de ma grand-mère, © David Favrod
We are thrilled to present David Favrod, winner of the 2010 Aperture Portfolio Prize. View the portfolio from Favrod and the four runners-up—Kathryn Parker Almanas, Anne Golaz, Julian Röder, and Jordan Tate—online now.
Congratulations to David, Kathryn, Ann, Julian, and Jordan!
Check back soon for details on how to enter the 2011 Aperture Portfolio Prize.
Photo by Mitch Epstein, Amos Coal Power Plant, Raymond, West Virginia 2004, Courtesy the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., N.Y.
Reframing the American Landscape PEOPLE PLACES POWER, an exhibition opening January 14th at Davidson College in North Carolina, surveys recent photography by artists Dru Donovan, Mitch Epstein, Gail Albert Halaban, David Hilliard, Lisa Kereszi, Ryan McGinley, Andrew Moore, Alex Prager, Richard Renaldi, Victoria Sambunaris, and David Taylor among others. The exhibition considers American energy production and consumption from a number of angles including the social, political, personal and economic dynamics that play into this nationally pertinent issue. The exhibition kicks off with an artist talk with renowned photographer Mitch Epstein and author Susan Bell on their ongoing internet and public art project whatisamericanpower.com on Thursday, January 13th.
PEOPLE PLACES POWER
On view January 14th – February 25th, 2011
VAN EVERY/SMITH GALLERIES
Belk Visual Arts Center Davidson College 315 North Main Street
Davidson, North Carolina
“Having been a photo editor of the New York Times I worried about the credibility of pictures” Fred Ritchin told a packed audience at Aperture’s bookstore this past November while speaking on what inspired him to write his classic book of essays, recently reissued, In Our Own Image, “The idea of fact… of reference points, we don’t have them any more.”
In this three part podcast of Fred Ritchin and Brian Palmer’s public program, Ritchin talks about everything from plagarized journalism to Photoshop to the democratization of photojournalism in the digital age. When Brian Palmer, Ritchin’s colleague at NYU as well as a photojournalist asked Ritchin to discuss his hopes for the future of photojournalism, in his answer Ritchin muses “If one believes that people want the authentic at some level, you know either you want to fall in love, or you want to believe in god, or you want to eat something that’s real or you want to take a walk in the breeze, there’s something authentic that people want then why should imaging be outside the pale. Imaging also can be authentic, should be authentic.”
You can listen to the Fred Ritchin in Conversation with Brian Palmer Podcast here:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
To Download Parts 1 – 3 of the podcast click on the links below:
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Kick off 2011 with some new and exciting shows in Chelsea:
© Todd Hido
Todd Hido: Fragmented Narratives at Bruce Silverstein Gallery
Renowned as a master of sequencing in book format, Todd Hido juxtaposes images from his influential monographs House Hunting, A Road Divided, Outskirts, and Between the Two with portraits and new images never before exhibited. Hido successfully extends his narrative from a linear book format to an almost cinematic storyline forged by his grouping and pairing of images unrelated in time or place, his female subjects acting as the characters in his photographic sequences. Hido’s eerily lit nocturnal images of suburban houses allude to the often discomforting, lonely American scenes by the painter Edward Hopper as well as mirror the director David Lynch’s interest and attention to the seedy underside of suburban American culture.
Fragmented Narratives
January 6 – February 12, 2011
Bruce Silverstein Gallery
535 West 24th Street
New York, NY
Also on view:
Christopher Williams
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 12)
As the title may suggest, this show is just a subset of a larger ongoing project; Revision 1-11 were shown at David Zwirner as well as other institutions throughout Europe. In Christopher Williams’s fifth solo exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery, the Conceptual artist stays true to form and presents a series of crisp and clean photographs that do not have evident relationships to one another. He offers no explanation for his works, and instead invites the viewers to draw the links and connections themselves.
Although the show may present itself as more of a riddle, the lush/stark photographs can stand on their own and are worth seeing.
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 12)
January 7 – February 12, 2011
David Zwirner Gallery
525 West 19th Street
New York, NY
January White Sale
curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody
January White Sale, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, is an exhibition of white works from over fifty well-known and emerging international artists. A play on the slightly dated term for a department store bedding clearance, January White Sale is anything but. The exhibition blends both important post-war American works, the focus of the gallery, with DeWoody’s playful and sometimes highly provocative aesthetic.
Works in various media such as painting, photography, sculpture, works on paper, assemblage, and video arise from a surreal and rarely seen all-white installation. It is also in this viewing that the overlooked differentiation in shades of white becomes apparent. The combination of titaniums, bones, antiques, and ivories, along with the intricate silhouettes, create an even more compelling installation. With the lack of color in art, the form becomes most important, and emerges front and center.”
January White Sale
January 13 – February 12, 2011
Loretta Howard Gallery
525 West 26th Street
New York, NY
