New publications from Aperture’s award winning book program are now available for purchase:

Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes

Trevor Paglen’s first photographic monograph compiles eight years of the photographer’s widely acclaimed work exploring the secret activities of the U.S. millitary and intelligence agencies with his camera. Paglen’s mysterious and compelling images play with conventions of documentary using an array of techniques and approaches to consider what can and cannot be seen.

Click here to read more about Trevor Paglen’s new book Invisible

One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds

Photographer Dave Anderson documents the evolution of a New Orleans block as it’s residents rebuild after the destruction of Hurricane Katrina in new monograph One Block. On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of Katrina, these images consider the great resilience, hope and struggle of a community.

Click here to view interviews with residents featured in Dave Anderson’s One Block

Click here to read more about Dave Anderson’s new book One Block

ReGeneration 2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today

ReGeneration is back! Following the success of 2005 anthology and exhibition ReGeneration which featured works by Pieter Hugo, Idris Khan, Angelina Strassheim and Nathalie Czech, ReGeneration 2 turns the spotlight once more on the up and coming generation of image makers. Showcasing over two hundred images of eighty emerging artists, reGeneration 2 proves that the art of photography is alive and well, and that practitioners of extraordinary talent are well on their way to making their mark.

Click here to read more about new Anthology ReGeneration 2: Tomorrows Photographers Today

Destroy This Memory

Richard Misrach’s Destroy This Memory is an affecting reminder of the physical and psychological impact of Hurricane Katrina. Rather than simply surveying the damage, Misrach-who has photographed the region regularly since the 1970s, most notably for his ongoing Cancer Alley project-found himself drawn to the hurricane-inspired graffiti: messages scrawled in spray paint, crayons, chalk, or whatever materials happened to be on hand. Created between October and December 2005, this haunting series of images serves as a potent document of the raw experiences of those left to fend for themselves in the aftermath of Katrina.

Click here to read more about Richard Misrach’s Destroy This Memory

Photo by Stanley Greene

Those Who Fell Through the Cracks, a photography exhibition by Stanley Greene and Kadir van Lohuizen, will debut August 20th at the Lawndale Art Center in Houston before traveling from Texas to Louisiana. Stanley Greene, whose recent book Black Passport was published by Aperture this past Spring, worked in collaboration with Lohuizen documenting New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Mural size prints from the project will be installed on the interior and exterior of a highly innovative 24′ itinerant truck. As the truck drives east from Houston, the photographs’ messages will be broadcast across the region, bringing awareness to a need for systemic change.

The exhibition’s opening in Houston is part of a series of events and exhibitions taking place throughout the city on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Other events include an August 21st talk with Stanley Greene and Kadir van Lohuizen at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

As previously announced, an exhibition of photographs by Richard Misrach entitled After Katrina is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston through October 31. The exhibition is accompanied by a book entitled Destroy This Memory, which will be published by Aperture this month.

Those Who Fell Through the Cracks
A mobile exhibition by Stanley Greene and Kadir van Lohuizen
On view at the Lawndale Art Center October 20 - 26

Lawndale Art Center
4912 Main Street
Houston, TX 77002

Click here to purchase Stanley Greene’s Black Passport

Click here to view Richard Misrach’s Destroy This Memory

© Josef Koudelka/Magnum Photos

Josef Koudelka’s exhibition coproduced by Aperture and Magnum Photos, Invasion 68: Prague is now on view in Argentina at the Fundacion OSDE.  The remarkable photographs were taken during one week in August of 1968, which capture the Soviet-led invasion of Prague.  Koudelka took to the streets to document this critical moment. His powerful photographs reached Magnum Photos in New York and earned the still-anonymous photographer the Robert Capa Award. This exhibition, with many images—reproduced in large-scale prints and grids—never having been seen before, as well as compelling texts by Czech historians.

Invasion 68 Prague
August 5 - October 2, 2010

Espacio de Art de Fundación OSDE
Suipacha 658 - 1er piso
Microcentro
Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Click here to purchase Koudelka’s Aperture published monograph, Invasion 68: Prague.

Click here for more information about Fundacion OSDE

© Richard Misrach

To observe the upcoming 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Richard Misrach will be exhibiting the photographs he took of the wreckage in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The 69 photographs that will be on view are donated on behalf of Misrach. Misrach has also gifted his works to the the New Orleans Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Destroy This Memory is the accompanying book published by Aperture. The book does not contain any essays or titles, allowing the bold graffiti messages captured in Misrach’s photographs to speak for themselves. All proceeds from royalties will go towards The Make It Right Foundation to help rebuild the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans.

Richard Misrach: After Katrina
August, 7 - October 31, 2010

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH)
1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston, TX 77005

Click here to purchase Destroy This Memory.

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Photo by Jun Ahn

This is the last week to see States of Flux a group show of works by Parsons Photography BFA and MFA programs on view at the Aperture Gallery. The show contends with the changing nature of the medium of photography and featured works ask such questions as How does the contemporary photographer contend with the forces of rapid technological change and how do these forces affect the ways in which photographers picture the globalized world?

Be sure you don’t miss this exhibition’s look into the future of photography and while you are in the Aperture Gallery be sure to check in to Aperture Foundation: Bookstore and Gallery on Foursquare with your cell phone for special offers and prizes!

States of Flux

On view through Thursday, August 12th

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

Photo by Zwelethu Mthethwa

Flak Photo has announced the three lucky winners of its Zwelethu Mthethwa Book Giveaway in partnership with Aperture. Congratulations to Barbara Fischer (Australia), Dustyn Allen (USA) and Henry Macario (Brazil) who were selected at random from over 280 Flak Photo facebook entries to win a copy of Zwelethu Mthethwa’s acclaimed monograph published by Aperture. Thank you to Flak Photo for supporting this important book. You can learn more about Flak Photo’s book giveaways and profiles on emerging photographers by visiting the Flak Photo website.

Click here to purchase your copy of Zwelethu Mthethwa’s self-titled monograph

Film still from Meshes in the Afternoon

Maya Deren’s Legacy: Women and Experimental Film, is a retrospective exhibition at the MoMA, which examines Deren as a visionary female experimental filmmaker, and the indelible influence she’s had on other women directors.

After college, Deren worked with dancer/choreographer Katherine Dunham, where she developed her interest in dance and spirituality.  Deren captured several hours of footage of Haitian ceremonial dances, but the project was never completed when she unexpectedly died at the age of 44.  The edited footage, titled Divine Horsemen, was released posthumously.  It was during Deren’s time with Dunham that she met her future husband, Alexander Hammid, who introduced her to European avant-garde film.  The couple collaborated on Deren’s first and best well-known film, Meshes in the Afternoon.

This exhibition will screen Meshes in the Afernoon, and other works by Deren.  The exhibition consists of a video installation in the Theater Galleries and short-film programs in the theaters.

Maya Deren’s Legacy: Women and Experimental Film
May 15-October 18, 2010

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 West 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019

Click here for the film screening schedule.

Click here to read more about Deren in Aperture magazine #195.

Hansons’ Tent at the The Common Ground Fair, Unity Maine, 2008 by Keliy Anderson-Staley

2009 Aperture Portfolio Prize winner Keliy Anderson - Staley’s ongoing body of work Off the Grid provides a close look at the daily lives of families living in Maine without electricity, plumbing or phones. Anderson - Staley’s subject’s have rejected these technologies for a range of reasons, from political and environmental concerns to economic necessity, but the lifestyles depicted are all resourceful and inspiring takes on “green” living.

Aperture is pleased to present a new limited edition print from the Off the Grid series entitled Hansons’ Tent at the The Common Ground Fair, Unity Maine, 2008. The print, a photograph of a  tent belonging to a family of “off-gridders” is a poignant example of the charm and character of the creative measures taken by Anderson - Staley’s subjects to achieve their minimal environmental impact.

Click here to learn more about Limited Edition Keliy Anderson-Staley’s print Hansons’ Tent at the The Common Ground Fair, Unity Maine, 2008

Click here to learn more about the Aperture Portfolio Prize

© Trevor Paglen

Now Available! Trevor Paglen’s long-awaited first photographic monograph, Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes, which highlights the array of tactics Paglen uses to depict both what can and cannot be seen.  A contributing essay by Rebecca Solnit offers insight into the history of clandestine military activity on the American landscape.

Social scientist, artist, writer, and provocateur, Paglen has been exploring the secret activities of the U.S. military and intelligence agencies for the last eight years.  Most recently, upon the release of Invisible, Paglen has been highlighted on the blog The Spinning Head, the Washington Post, The National and The New Yorker blog. Paglen’s work was originally published as the cover story titled, Disappearances: The Photographs of Trevor Paglen in  Aperture magazine Issue 191.

Click here to purchase Invisible.

Click here to visit Paglen’s blog.