This Thursday and Friday, visit Aperture Foundation at SHOOT NYC, an exciting and informative forum featuring live shooting sets incorporating the latest photographic technology on the market today. In addition to a wide range of free professional photography seminars, industry leaders Broncolor and Hasselblad will help you learn how to harness and integrate the market’s most advanced photographic tools into your business, improving both your photography and your bottom line.

This event is ideal for professional photographers, photo assistants, advanced students, or any imaging professional that would like to learn about the latest cutting edge products and techniques being used in the professional digital image capture market. Whether you are interested in fashion, portraiture, stock, or repro, there will be a range of valuable seminars delivered by the most relevant speakers in the industry.

In addition, you will be able to take a tour of the Hasselblad Masters exhibition, which will feature images of the 2012 competition finalist.

Thursday, October 28, 2011 – Friday, October 29, 2011
10:00 am – 7:00 pm
FREE
Register online here!

The Terminal Building
11th Avenue and  West 28th Street
New York, New York 10001

Poster photographed and designed by Gerald Slota for W.M. Hunt and Aperture, © Gerald Slota

In conjunction with his new book The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious, W.M. – Bill – Hunt has created a special performance piece suggested by his text for the book.

This monologue with projections and video will consist of ruminations on his many years of collecting and a life in photographs. Mr. Hunt has been a collector since his early years as an actor. He has been a fundraiser (Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS, The Center for Photography at Woodstock and the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund), a dealer (Ricco/Maresca Gallery and his own Hasted Hunt) as well as a writer and teacher.

Hunt is known for his wit and sometimes larger than life personality. This evening is one of information and digression. He hopes to bring into the light many of the names and stories left out of book.

The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious presents an idiosyncratic and compelling collection of photographs assembled around a particular theme: magical, heart stopping images of people in which the eyes are obscured, veiled, or otherwise hidden. The gaze of the subject is averted. The pictures present a catalog of anti-portraiture, characterized at first glance by what its subjects conceal, not by what the camera reveals.

Amassed over the course of almost forty years by Hunt, the collection includes works by masters such as Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, Imogen Cunningham, William Klein, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Robert Frank as well as lesser known artists and vernacular images. Hunt’s instinctive pursuit of striking images has resulted in a collection that manages to evoke a picture of humanity from birth to death, with all the associated nuances of memory, wit, eroticism, fear, grief, and horror.

More than three hundred and fifty intensely evocative and frequently surreal images are brilliantly sequenced in this volume—the cumulative effect is unnerving and riveting. Most critically, the images are drawn together by the narrative of the collector himself—a highly personal monologue that weaves throughout the book, in which Hunt offers his own perceptive responses to the images he has gathered over many years. The end result is a series of surprising epiphanies about how and why one collects. This volume is a must for anyone who collects or has considered putting together a collection of his or her own.

W.M. Hunt is a frequent lecturer on collecting, a well known dealer and an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts, New York. An earlier exhibition of his collection launched to critical acclaim at the Rencontres d’Arles de la Photographie in 2005 before traveling to the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, and FOAM, Amsterdam. An exhibition of 550 works, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Collection of W. M. Hunt will be on view at the George Eastman House from Oct.1 2011 to February 19 2012.

Exhibition on view:
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York: October 1, 2011- February 19, 2012

Performance by Bill Hunt:
Aperture Gallery and Bookstore: Friday, October 28, 2011
Doors at 6:30 pm, Performance at 7:00 pm

RSVP@aperture.org

Click here to read an interview of W.M. Hunt in At Length magazine.

© Nan Goldin, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

Nan Goldin: Scopophilia will be on view at Matthew Marks Gallery beginning Friday, October 28, 2011. Literally translating to “the love of looking,” the exhibition features 400 of Goldin’s intimate photographs alongside works of art from the Louvre Museum. Although Goldin’s raw aesthetic may seem at odds with the polished paintings and sculptures favored by the Louvre, the works share surprisingly similar stories of pain, desire and love. Presented in Goldin’s traditional format of a slide installation, Scopophilia resembles her groundbreaking, amorphous series of photographs The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, published as a book by Aperture in 1986. Goldin was also featured in Aperture magazine issue 167 with a cover article exploring her series The Devil’s Playground.

Exhibition on view:
October 28 – December 23, 2011
Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

Matthew Marks Gallery:
522 West 22nd Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues)
New York, New York, 10001

Aperture is thrilled to announce PRINTING SHOW – TKY, an exclusive event and exhibition featuring influential Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama! Organized by Ivan Vartanian of Goliga.

PRINTING SHOW is a recreation of Daido Moriyama’s 1974 performance of the same name. Following the format of the original performance as closely as possible, in lieu of prints mounted on the gallery walls, visitors to the gallery will find the photographer stationed at a photocopy machine duplicating his photographic prints. As was done forty years ago, these photocopied sheets will be assembled and staple-bound with a silk-screened cover printed in the gallery space during the performance.

In 1974, the ad hoc photobook that resulted from this process, Another Country—New York, featured images from a trip Moriyama had made to New York in 1971. The photobook, which was produced as ephemera for the performance, has since become a rare collector’s item. In the 2011 recreation, the work featured will include a selection of images made in Tokyo over the last fifteen years.

Visitors to the gallery will be active collaborators in the photobook-making process. In 1974, the photographer sequenced and collated the photocopied sheets, leaving the choice of silkscreen cover to the visitor. In 2011, the visitor will select, edit, and sequence the sheets of the ad hoc photobook, titled TKY. Visitors will choose from a menu of fifty-four double-sided photocopied sheets that will be on view in the gallery space. Visitors will also make a choice of cover. All copies made during the performance interval will be signed by the photographer.

Daido Moriyama has been publishing and exhibiting his photography since the late 1960s, with a bibliography of over 300 monographs to his name. A major retrospective, Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog, originated in 2000 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and subsequently toured internationally to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Japan Society in New York, Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, and numerous other venues. He is a recipient of the Cultural Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie. Exhibitions include a major retrospective, On the Road, presented at the Osaka National Museum of Art from June to October 2011, and William Klein/Daido Moriyama at Tate Modern from October 2012 to January 2013.

Click here to purchase tickets to the event Friday Nov 4, Session 2–4 pm

Click here to purchase tickets to the event Friday, Nov 4, Session 6–9 pm

Click here to purchase tickets to the event Saturday, Nov 5, Session 12–3 pm

Click here to purchase tickets to the event Saturday, Nov 5, Session 5–8 pm

Presented by Aperture Foundation and organized by Ivan Vartanian of Goliga, PRINTING SHOW—TKY is made possible, in part, with support from David Solo; The Japan Foundation, New York; Hôtel Americano, New York; and Performa 11.

Last Monday, Aperture’s 2011 Benefit, Auction & SNAP! Party honored three incredibly influential figures: Bruce Davidson, Gerhard Steidl and Robert Anthione. The night had a warm and exciting atmosphere and our guests enjoyed looking at and bidding on plenty of amazing photography. In addition to the Live Auction conducted by Sotheby’s very own Denise Bethel, there was also a Silent Auction, and an Emerging Artists SNAP! Silent Auction. Aperture couldn’t have pulled this fabulous night off without the tireless support of our Board of Trustees, Benefit cochairs  Sondra Gilman, Susan Gutfreund, and Karl Lagerfeld; Auction cochairs Cathy Kaplan, Anne Stark, and Severn Taylor; and SNAP! Party cochairs artist Jowhara AlSaud, Peter Berberian of Gotham Imaging, Emily Bierman of Sotheby’s, and actor Ken Triwush. Thank you to all our generous supporters who contributed to the success of our most important fundraiser of the year!

Auction cochair Anne Stark, Aperture Chairman Celso Gonzalez-Falla, guests, Honorees Gerhard Steidl and Robert Anthoine, Benefit cochair Sondra Gilman, and Honoree Bruce Davidson.

Aperture’s Executive Director Chris Boot welcomes honorees Gerhard Steidl, Robert Anthoine, and Bruce Davidson.

Honoree Gerhard Steidl with Benefit cochair Susan Gutfreund.

Auction cochair Cathy Kaplan and guest.

Peter MacGill, Lesley A. Martin, guest, Mark Levine, and Fred Smith.

Muna Rihani, Chairman Emeritus John H. Gutfreund, guest, and Benefit cochair Susan Gutfreund.

Rachel Rimsky and SNAP! Party cochair Emily Bierman.

Alyse Archer-Coité, guest and artist Rachel Barrett enjoying the SNAP! Benefit Party.

Untitled, 2005. © Florian Maier-Aichen

Exhibition on view:
September 13 – October 29, 2011

Baronian Francey:
2 Rue Isidore Verheyden
1050 Brussels
Belgium
+32 2 512 92 95

The work of German born artist Florian Maier-Aichen is currently on view at the Belgian gallery, Baronian Francey. Combining drawing, painting, and photography, Maier-Aichen creates rich, abstract landscape photography. Highly saturated in both color and concept, his photos play with the contradictions of landscape photography as a genre for both documentation and fiction. He has studied and worked in Europe and the U.S. and his work is included in the collections of many museums including the Hammer Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Maier-Aichen’s work was published in Aperture magazine issue 187, and the compendium Photo Art: Photography in the 21st Century. He will also be at Aperture Gallery on November 22nd for a free artist talk at 6:30pm.

Last June, acclaimed Magnum photographer Alex Webb gave an Artist Talk on release of his book, The Suffering of Light: Thirty Years of Photographs. This exquisite publication is the first comprehensive monograph charting the career of the acclaimed American photographer. The collection presents his most iconic images, many of which were taken in the far corners of the earth, and brings a fresh perspective to his extensive catalog.

Alex Webb‘s photographs have appeared in a wide range of publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Life, Stern, and National Geographic, and have been exhibited at the International Center of Photography, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He is a recipient of the Leica Medal of Excellence (2000) and the Premio Internacional de Fotografia Alcobendas (2009). Webb, a member of Magnum Photos since 1976, lives in New York City.

Find The Suffering of Light: Thirty Years of Photographs here.

Find Webb’s earlier book Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names here.

Alex Webb’s exhibition The Suffering of Light will be on view at Aperture Bookstore & Gallery beginning December 8, 2011 and running through January 19, 2012. Find the accompanying monograph here.

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
Between 10th and 11th Avenues
New York, New York

© Alejandro Chaskielberg, Winner, Professional People & L’Iris d’Or 2011 Sony World Photography Awards

The World Photography Organisation (WPO), an acclaimed London based initiative that provides a global platform for professional, amateur, and student photography through its website and live events, is coming to New York to engage the city’s vibrant photography community with exhibitions, workshops, and talks led by world renowned practitioners in the field. WPO has partnered with the Chelsea Art Museum who will serve as the host venue for all activities from October 13 through November 12, 2011.

“We are delighted to come to New York City which has been the favorite subject of countless photographers since the early days of the medium,” said Astrid Merget, Creative Director of the World Photography Organisation. “It is our goal throughout these four weeks to harness the boundless energy of New York’s rich photographic community to create an environment that engages both emerging and established talent.”

The New York events will kick off with an opening night on Thursday, October 13 at 6:00 p.m. featuring the 2011 Sony World Photography Awards Winners’ Exhibition curated by Elisabeth Biondi, former Visuals Editor of the New Yorker and a chair of the Honorary Judging committee of the 2011 awards. Sony World Photography Awards is widely recognized as the leading global photographic awards program in existence today whose mission is to discover talent across many diverse fields of photography. The work in these exhibitions will provide a stunning and inspiring snapshot of global contemporary photography. There will be a press preview from 5:00-6:00 p.m.

Also on display will be a Sony Artisan of Imagery exhibition. The theme of the exhibition ties in to the 2012 theme of the Sony World Photography Awards Student Focus Program, Fleeting Moment. The Sony Artisan of Imagery photographers are Sony US Ambassadors, which include some of the most respected professional photographers worldwide.

The centerpiece of the programming is the recently launched City Projects, a series of intense and challenging three-day workshops open to both serious amateurs and professional photographers. The City Projects global theme for 2011/2012 is “Portraits of a City,” led by award-winning and established photographers Steve Pyke, Cheryl Dunn, Nick Turpin and Jez Coulson. These workshops will invite participants to capture the spirit of New York via the unique brief of each instructor. A mixed media presentation of selected work from the New York City Projects, will be showcased at the Chelsea Art Museum from October 26 through November 12, alongside a selection from the São Paulo and London City Projects.

Other programming will include:

• The Beginners Portrait Workshops led by British portrait photographer David Graham

• Student Focus Program, welcoming photography students to participate in free programming and featuring a very special student City Project, led by Sony Artisan of Imagery photographer, Cristina Mittermeier

• Introduction to Self-Publishing seminar hosted by Daniel Milnor, Blurb Books Ambassador

• In the Photographer’s Studio, featuring Elisabeth Biondi in conversation with Alejandro Chaskielberg, winner of the 2011 Sony World Photography Awards L’Iris d’Or

These New York Events follow World Photography Events and Festivals that took place in Shanghai, San Francisco, São Paulo and London over the past year. Next stops on the tour are Chicago in November 2011, São Paulo in January 2012 and London in April 2012.

Chelsea Art Museum
555 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011

Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 11am – 6pm
Thursday: 11am – 8pm

For more information on the Sony World Photography Awards and World Photography New York Events, please visit: www.worldphoto.org/festivals-events.

Event tickets and program are available through the World Photography Organisation website. Tickets will also be available through Chelsea Art Museum during the event.  Many events, such as the In the Photographer’s Studio are free of charge.

Please join us on for a Book Party celebrating Is This Place Great Or What, Brian Ulrich’s long-awaited first monograph. The event will be held at Aperture Gallery on Thursday, October 20, 2011, from 7:00 – 9:00 pm.

The book presents the photographer’s decade-long exploration of the shifting tectonic plates that make up American consumer society. Ulrich focuses, in part, on photographing the architectural legacies of a retail-driven economy in the midst of collapse—shopping malls on the brink of demolition, empty big box stores, and other retail structures in transition.

Is This Place Great or What coincides with an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Brian Ulrich (born in North Port, New York, 1971) holds an MFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. In 2009, he was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He is represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Julie Saul, New York; and Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco. In 2006, Aperture published his work as part ofMP3: Midwest Photographers Publication Project.

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