Web Developer, iOS Apps and Website
Aperture Foundation

At an exciting moment in its move into digital storytelling, the Aperture Foundation is seeking a talented, creative web developer to be responsible for iOS app development and general web support. This position will be responsible for working with the internal creative team to develop a series of iOS-based apps related to ongoing projects. Although this position focuses on building apps, the developer will also assist with website development needs as time allows. The ideal candidate should enjoy building digital tools for a cultural audience, and must also enjoy working in a small, close-knit team in our busy New York office.

This is a hands-on development position. Ideal candidates should be innovative, flexible, and self-directed; show a willingness to share, discuss, and brainstorm ideas; and enjoy writing code, solving problems and working/communicating with coworkers. Knowledge of Magento and WordPress preferred.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead development of iOS-powered applications
• Work with the editorial and creative team to develop digital applications that best support the organization
• Set standards and best practices for development
• Stay aware of the latest and upcoming Apple and web technology
• Create clean, well-documented and optimized, error-free code
• Participate in design brainstorming sessions, technical design reviews, bug triage, and functional walkthroughs

Experience and Skills:

• Experience developing with iOS technologies, including submitting apps to Apple
• Appropriate knowledge of Objective-C, Cocoa, iOS, CSS, HTML, and/or other languages as needed
• Experience developing applications and renders from Photoshop PSD files
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• Ability to juggle multiple projects simultaneously under varying deadlines
• Approach technical challenges with an open mind and a desire to innovate
• Appreciate great design and thrive in a creative environment
• Interest in and/or experience with photography, New York cultural institutions, and art-related events is preferred
• Knowledge of Magento and/or WordPress preferred

Please send cover letter and resume to newhire@aperture.org with Web Developer in the subject line. Please no phone calls.

Aperture is pleased to release this special limited-edition 23″ x 18″ print by artist Michael Flomen titled New Born, 2010.  Flomen writes: “for me New Born, is a photographic document of a fragment of evolution. The image represents the birth of a new beginning.” It was made in a pond in Northern Vermont by dipping a glass plate negative into the water at night time.

Flomen’s work is also featured in the publication The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography (Aperture, 2009) by Lyle Rexer.  Read an excerpt from the book by Rexer on Flomen here:

takes photography’s desire for the real to its literal extreme, making photographs that are in direct contact with the natural elements he seeks to capture.  Working without a camera, he places sheets of black-and-white photographic paper in snowfields, streams, and other natural settings to register the activity of light in relation to natural phenomena. This environmental romanticism, so closely akin to Talbot’s intuition that photography allows nature to draw itself, represents a new adaptation of the photogram.

For fifteen years, this self-taught artist has collaborated with nature using this camera-less technique. Natural phenomena, he says, are the inspiration to his picture making.

Sloane #68, 2009, © Lise Sarfati / Brancolini Grimaldi Gallery

Exhibition on view:
February 3–March 17, 2012

Brancolini Grimaldi
43-44 Albemarle Street
London
W1S 4JJ
+44 (0)207 493 5721

Two pairs of American sisters are featured in the film-still like photographs of the series She by Lise Sarfati. The women photographed become interchangeable as Sarfati investigates the sense of identity that a woman attempts to possess. Instead, the uniqueness of the characters becomes beautifully ambiguous. French-born Sarfati, living part-time in the U.S., photographed the inner lives of these young women, changing their environments every so often, moving them to various cities including Oakland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix. Sarfati prefers to shoot in small towns where life is slower and she has the chance to obtain intimate knowledge of her subjects.

Made between 2005 and 2009 the semi-choreographed photographs were influenced by film and theoretical thinkers. Sarfati’s interest in doubles and reflections adds an extra layer to the banality offered by the American backdrops; ordinary living rooms, shops and streets. Using Kodachrome slide film, synonymous with family snapshots of the 1960s and 70s, her quiet compositions bathed with rich color heighten the intensity of the women she photographs.

Sarfati talks about her subject’s environments, the perception of color in her work and her intention behind She in a recent interview with Elizabeth Avedon. A retrospective of this work and more of Sarfati’s photographs will be featured in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris in 2014.

Sarfati has appeared in Aperture issues 194, 180, 146, and 142.

Aperture has long been recognized as an excellent source for quality traveling exhibitions to museums, university galleries, libraries, and art centers around the world.  The foundation has a prestigious roster of exhibitions available at any given time, currently there are ten different exhibitions moving around the world and another four that are currently in development. These exhibitions reflect the diversity of our book program including monographic exhibitions from masters of the medium such as Bruce Davidson and Alex Webb to exciting group shows including The New York Times Magazine Photographs, a never before seen collection of some of the greatest photography ever published in the Magazine and reGeneration 2 a  introduction to the most promising photographers of the next generation. See below for more details on where our exhibitions are currently on view.

Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures

Dawoud Bey’s Class Pictures are portraits of American adolescence across the social, economic and racial spectrum. Now on display at Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, PA, the 40 x 30 inch color prints are paired with page-long statements written by the subjects–sometimes touching, sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing–that deepen our understanding of the most awkward age.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012–Saturday, March 10, 2012

Silver Eye Center for Photography
1015 East Carson Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
(412) 431-1810

The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography

The Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR presents The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Color Photography. Photographs and photo-based installations, many exhibited for the first time, “explore the territory of ‘undisclosed’ or abstract imagery in all its forms.” Single-artist installations examine the photographic process and visual culture in an effort to discover new optical possibilities and meaning-making.

Thursday, January 19, 2012–Sunday, March 18, 2012

Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery, Lewis and Clark College
0615 S.W. Palantine Hill Rd.
Portland, Oregon
(503) 768-7687

Chuck Close: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something

In Witchita, KA, the Witchita Art Museum presents A Couple of Ways of Doing Something—fifteen of Chuck Close’s intimate daguerreotype portraits of influential contemporary artists alongside Bob Holman’s beautifully typeset poems.  In addition, Close a curator has included examples of his other works taken from each daguerreotype in a variety of media, including tapestries and photogravures.

Sunday, January 29, 2012–Sunday, April 15, 2012

Wichita Art Museum
1400 West Museum Boulevard
Wichita, Kansas
(316) 268-4980

We update all traveling exhibition schedules on a regular basis on our website here and here.  Please feel free to contact Annette Booth, Exhibitions Manager at 212.946.7128 or at abooth@aperture.org for further information on hosting an exhibition at your venue!

Untitled, 1965, © William Eggleston / Eggleston Artistic Trust / Cheim & Read Gallery

In 1976 Memphis-native William Eggleston ushered in a new age of photography with his ground-breaking use of color. The Museum of Modern Art hosted its first one-man color photography exhibition featuring Eggleston’s work. This particular display is known for prompting the acceptance of color photography as well as legitimizing and popularizing the refashioned medium.

With a focus on the mundane, Eggleston has the ability to capture the vibrant nature of seemingly ordinary objects and individuals; a blue tricycle, a light bulb hanging from a red ceiling, a woman’s bouffant hair-do. The normality of his subjects is deceived with his use of rich colors and appealing angles.

Eggleston has gone through his archives and reconsidered some of his work. In an era of new technology, he has decided to enlarge 36 of his most well-known photographs along with some never-before-seen images. By playing with the scale, moving from 16-by-20 inch prints to 44-by-60 inches, Eggleston claims to see things that he never knew were there. Christie’s will be selling the new-fangled oversized photographs to benefit the Eggleston Artistic Trust.

Eggleston’s work has appeared in Aperture issues 169, 181, and 196.

Public viewing:
March 8–11, 2012

Auction begins:
Monday, March 12, 2012
5:00 pm

Christie’s
Rockefeller Center
20 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY
(212) 332-6868