Feast Your Eyes

Exhibition on view:
January 6–January 27, 2012

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

The New York Photo Festival presents Feast Your Eyes: A Holiday Photo Invitational. Fascinated by America’s ever-growing food culture, The New York Photo Festival held an open competition, challenging photographers to submit their best photographs of food. The jurors selected over 30 winners to be in the exhibition including the Aperture-published Elinor Carucci. Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Carucci currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts. She was featured in Aperture magazine issue 182.

Best books of the year make great last-minute gifts! Satisfy every photography lover on your list and save 30% on some of the most acclaimed books of the year.

The New York Times Magazine Photographs by Kathy Ryan is the book that should be on everybody’s list, as noted by the Wall Street Journal, InStyle Gift Guide, Refinery 29, and NPR. Featuring over two hundred of the best photographers working in vastly different styles, this book offers a page-turning mix ranging from photojournalism to celebrity portraiture.

Best books of the year, according to American Photo, include The New York Times Magazine Photographs and Is This Place Great or What by Brian Ulrich in the photojournalism category, and The Suffering of Light by Alex Webb in the retrospective category.

Photo District News calls Bruce Davidson‘s Subway and Josef Koudelka‘s Gypsies among the top ten photo books of 2011. These classics have been updated for their newest editions, and both feature never-before-seen images.

Showing us a lot of love, The Guardian listed Illuminance by Rinko Kawauchi, The Suffering of Light by Alex Webb, Subway by Bruce Davidson, Gypsies by Josef Koudelka, and Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography by Verna Posener Curtis on their Photography Book Gift Guide.

Straight from the Wall Street Journal Gift Guide is The Unseen Eye by W.M. Hunt, a William Meyers pick. 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.

Two of Alec Soth’s favorites were Illuminance by Rinko Kawauchi and Photographic Memory by Verna Posener Curtis. While Conscientious’ Joerg Colberg listed Is This Place Great or What by Brian Ulrich and Photographic Memory by Verna Posener Curtis as the year’s best.

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Aperture’s bookstore open Friday, December 22, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm!

After Identity, What?, 2011 © Hank Willis Thomas

Aperture is pleased to present a new limited-edition photograph by Hank Willis Thomas. After Identity, What? is part of the artist’s 1969 series. MoMA PS1 invited Hank Willis Thomas and other artists to respond to the year 1969, a period marked with revolution and socio-political tumult. The artists made work utilizing images from magazines of the period and juxtaposed them with text derived from the same publications. The resulting pieces demonstrate the concerns and social values of the era and reflect a historical perspective only the passage of time can provide.

Aperture also published Willis Thomas’s first monograph Pitch Blackness (2008), and then released the now sold-out limited-edition photograph, Black Power.

Read FLYP interview with Hank Willis Thomas.

Read an interview with Hank in Art in America Magazine.

Le Vide, le plein (Void, Fullness), 2008. © Kader Attia

The Walls That Divide Us

Exhibition on view:
November 9–December 22, 2011

apexart:
291 Church Street
New York, NY
(212) 431-5270

Closing soon is The Walls That Divide Us, the current exhibition at apexart which focuses on physical and invisible global barriers. This multi-media, multi-artist exhibit addresses the sociopolitical divide created by city and nation building. The Walls That Divide Us features the work of Gisele Amantea, Kader Attia, Carolina Caycedo, Chen Chieh-jen, Sam Durant, Leor Grady, Ivan Grubanov, Shilpa Gupta, Emily Jacir, Runo Lagomarsino, Teresa Margolles, Locky Morris, Carlos Motta, Ahmet Öğüt, Anna Ostoya, Amalia Pica, Rigo 23, and the Aperture-published artist Alfredo Jaar.

Alfredo Jaar was a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been exhibited at many museums and galleries including the MIT List Visual Arts Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Jaar’s work has appeared in Aperture issues 181 and 204.

Artillery, 2005 © Sarah Pickering

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Last Thursday night, Aperture Gallery hosted an Opening Reception to celebrate Alex Webb‘s exhibition The Suffering of Light. Corresponding to the monograph of the same name, The Suffering of Light is a comprehensive look at over 30 years of Webb’s vibrant color photographs. Taken in international locales from India to Haiti, Webb’s photographs bridge the gap between street photography, photojournalism and fine art photography genres. The exhibition will be on view at Aperture Gallery through January 19, 2012.

Alex Webb will give a walkthrough of the exhibition this Saturday, December 17, from 4:00 – 5:00 pm at Aperture Gallery. The tour is FREE and open to the public.

In the Gallery Bookstore, Aperture is also presenting work by David Favrod, winner of our 2010 Portfolio Prize. in his first New York solo show. In his series Gaijin—which means foreign or alien—Favrod imagines his own personal Japan within Switzerland, playing on visual clichés of Japanese culture and recreating scenes from his childhood memories of Japan.

Photographer Alex Webb with Rebecca Norris Webb

Alex Webb signs his monograph The Suffering of Light.

Aperture’s Executive Director Chris Boot on right

A guest reads a copy of The Photobook Review, Aperture Foundation’s brand new bi-annual publication. Stop by the bookstore to pick up your copy before they run out! Stay tuned to find out when the digital version becomes available.

On Monday, December 19th, Aperture presents a special celebration for The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious by W. M. Hunt. Featured photographers will present their images and stories from the book, and share their experiences on the relationship between the artist and the collector. Artists include: Elinor Carucci, Phyllis Galembo, Luis Mallo, Gary Schneider, Gerald Slota, Frank Yamrus, and Fred Weber. Led by W. M. Hunt. Followed by a book signing.

W. M. Hunt is a frequent lecturer on the art of collecting 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 Photographie in 2005 before traveling to the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, and FOAM, Amsterdam.
Another book signing with W.M. Hunt will also take place at ICP on Thursday, December 22!