Mark your calendars — Aperture is gearing up for a busy first week of November!

Detail from Untitled, 2008, by Richard Misrach

November 1 – Aperture Foundation 2010 Auction and Benefit

Aperture will be hosting its annual Benefit and Auction at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers, New York. This year’s honorees are photographer Richard Misrach, collector, philanthropist and former Aperture Board member, Steven Ames; and New York-based gallerist Julie Saul. Benefit co-chairs are Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla.

Immediately following the benefit will be Aperture’s first ever SNAP! Benefit Party hosted by SNAP! The Aperture Foundation Young Patrons Program.

Aperture Foundation 2010 Benefit and Auction and SNAP! Benefit Party
Monday, November 1, 6:30-11:30 pm

The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers
New York, New York

Click here to preview and bid on Auction items.

© Michael Wolf

November 3 – Contemporary Documentary Practices: New School Panel Discussion

Aperture Foundation, the photography department in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School present a panel discussion entitled Contemporary Documentary Practices, as part of the ongoing series, Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context. Revisiting Martha Rosler’s seminal 1981 critique, “In, Around and Afterthoughts, on Documentary Photography,” this panel will explore the viability of documentary practices today, both within the contemporary art realm and in the larger context of visual culture. Moderated by Susan Bright, panelists include photographers LaToya Ruby Frazier, Michael Wolf and Chris Verene.

Contemporary Documentary Practices: Panel Discussion
Wednesday, November 3, 7:00 pm

The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York, New York

November 4 – Richard Misrach Lecture and Book Signing at The Strand Bookstore

The Strand Bookstore presents a lecture and book signing with Richard Misrach on the occasion of the publication of Misrach’s acclaimed new monograph, Destroy This Memory. Published by Aperture on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina—this powerful book presents previously unpublished and starkly compelling material, all of which Misrach shot with his 4 MP pocket camera.

Artist Lecture and Book Signing with Richard Misrach
Thursday, November 4, 7:00 pm

The Strand Bookstore
828 Broadway (at 12th Street)
New York, NY
(212) 473-1452

Click here to purchase a copy of Destroy This Memory

November 5-November 7 – New York Art Book Fair

Join Aperture at the New York Art Book Fair, the annual fair of contemporary art books, catalogs, artists’ books, periodicals, and ‘zines offered for sale by over 200 international publishers, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, and independent artist/publishers representing the best in contemporary art publications. Visit us at our booth featuring limited-edition books such as The Pond by John Gossage.

New York Art Book Fair
Friday, November 5-Sunday, November 7

MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City, NY

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