Photo by Paul Strand

Tonight September 16, 2010,  Aperture joins in celebrations to commemorate the bicentennial of Mexico’s Independence with opening receptions for both Paul Stand in Mexico and in collaboration with En Foco, Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices.

Aperture is proud to present Paul Strand in Mexico the exhibition, taking place in two parts, at the Aperture Gallery and at the Bronx Museum, and the accompanying publication, bringing together exquisitely printed infamous and unpublished images, documents, personal notes and film from this poignant period in the famed photographer’s life.

Paul Strand first visited Mexico in 1932 at the invitation of Carlos Chavez, the eminent Mexican composer and conductor. Strand’s sojourn in Mexico, was a time of great creative renewal for the artist-one of intense productivity, and the development of a method of working that would become the foundation of his subsequent endeavors: collective portraits of other lands.

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Paul Strand in Mexico
On View at Aperture Gallery September 9th – November 13th, 2010
Opening Reception Thursday, September 16th, 6:00 – 8:00pm

Also opening this evening is  En Foco: Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices which explores—via the work of photogrpahers Chuy Benitez, Dulce Pinzon, and Monica Ruzansky—how life and culture are enmeshed. Selections from En Foco’s Permanent Collection will also be on view encompassing work from the past four decades from Chicano, Mexican-American, and Mexican artists.

Aperture Gallery
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New York, New York

Also on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, presented by Aperture
Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio
September 9th, 2010 – January 2nd, 2011

Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse
Bronx, New York

A Paul Strand in Mexico symposium will take place on October 15–16, 2010. There, James Krippner, author and co-curator of Paul Strand in Mexico, will bring together a distinguished group of international scholars and practitioners from Mexico, the U.K., and the U.S. to discuss Strand’s output during his sojourn in Mexico in the context of Latin-American modernism, revolutionary politics and film of the 1930s, Mexican-American identity, and other topics. Screenings of the newly restored versions of the classic Strand films Redes and Manhatta (1921), and a viewing of the José Clemente Orozco murals at the New School—the only public commission by a Mexican muralist remaining in New York City—will take place as part of the symposium events.

Paul Strand in Mexico is coproduced by Aperture Foundation and Televisa Foundation. Paul Strand in Mexico is made possible by the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA), Mexico; National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius; Tinker Foundation; Mexican Cultural Institute of New York; and The John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center at Haverford College.

Photo by Paul Strand

This fall Aperture Foundation is pleased to present the Paul Strand in Mexico exhibition and catalog of Strand’s renowned photographs made in Mexico. On the occasion of the bicentennial of Mexico’s independence and the Centennial of its Revolution, this work by one of the great modern masters provides a unique and important photographic portrait of a critical moment from Mexico’s history.

The Paul Strand in Mexico exhibition opening September 9th at Aperture’s gallery will run in conjunction with a satellite exhibit at the Bronx Museum of Art, bringing together vintage prints, stills from Strand’s classic film Redes and previously unseen documents related to the work. In addition a small group show of contemporary Chicano, Mexican and Mexican-American photographers curated by En Foco’s Miriam Romais will be on view in Aperture’s project room.

A catalog co-published by Aperture and Televisa Foundation, to be released in October,  will make public the complete photographic works made by Strand during his 1932-34 trip to Mexico as well as a second journey in 1966. In addition to 234 photographs from the Strand archive, the book will feature in-depth, scholarly text by Author James Krippner, an essay by Mexican photo-historian Alfonso Morales and additional texts by Katherine Ware, Leo Hurwitz, David Alfaro Siqueros, and Anthony Montoya.

Paul Strand in Mexico
On view at Aperture Gallery September 9th – November 13th, 2010
Opening reception Thursday, September 16th, 6:00 – 8:00pm

Also at Aperture, in collaboration with En Foco: Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices and Selections from En Foco’s Permanent Collection

Also on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, presented by Aperture
Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio
September 9th, 2010 – January 2nd, 2011

Other Events Include:

A symposium organized by Aperture in association with and supported by The John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center at Haverford College will take place on October 15 and 16, 2010, includingScreenings of the newly restored versions of the classic Strand films Redes and Manhatta (1921), participants include John Mraz (Mexico), and Mike Weaver (UK), among others.

Family program: Bronx Museum, Saturday, September 25, 1:00-4:00 pm

© Jamel Shabazz

Today’s cover of The New York Times Weekend Arts section boasts with a review titled Finding Art in the Asphalt of the exhibition Street Art, Street Life opening this weekend at the Bronx Museum of the Arts with a Street Fair on the Grand Concourse outside the front entrance. View slideshow Where Art Meets Life here.

Hear the curator Lydia Yee with panelists Katherine A. Sussrad, Fatima and Frazer Ward TONIGHT at NYU in a discussion titled Unreal Streets on contemporary artist’ enduring fascination with cities and street life.

Soon to be available is the book of the same title by Aperture copublished with the Bronx Museum of the Arts.