This week join Aperture for a number of exciting photography events!

Jill Magid,” I Can Burn Your Face”, neon. 2008

Images, Surveillance and Power
Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context Panel Discussion

Aperture, 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 provocative new panel discussion Images, Surveillance, and Power. The objective of this panel is to explore the use of contemporary digital technologies in explore the relationship between images, surveillance, and power. Featured artists include Trevor Paglen whose book Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes was released by Aperture this year, Jill Magid alongside moderator Tom Vanderbilt.

Images, Surveillance and Power
Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context Panel Discussion
Wednesday, December 8, 7:00 pm

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

Photo copyright Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos

An Evening With Bruce Davidson: Artist Talk and Book Signing

In partnership with Levi’s® Photo Workshop, Aperture Foundation is pleased to present an evening with Bruce Davidson. Aperture magazine first published the work of master photographer Bruce Davidson in 1969. In the subsequent forty-one years, he has been included in numerous issues of the magazine, featured through Aperture-published monographs such as Subway (1986), Central Park (1995), and Portraits (1999). Davidson will show an overview of his life’s work-including the series mentioned above-and answer questions. A book signing exclusive to his retrospective, Outside/Inside (Steidl, 2010), will be held following the talk.

An Evening With Bruce Davidson
Thursday, December 9, 7:00 pm

FREE but seating is limited

Levi’s® Photo Workshop
18 Wooster Street
New York, New York

Photo copyright William Christenberry

William Christenberry: Kodachromes Book Party

Celebrate on the occasion of the release of master photographer William Christenberry’s new monograph William Christenberry: Kodachromes, including a book signing with the artist. The first publication to showcase the artist’s stunning and previously unknown body of work produced with a 35 mm kodachrome slide film.

William Christenberry: Kodachromes Book Party
Friday, December 10, 6:00pm-8:00pm

Please RSVP to events@aperture.org

Aperture Bookstore and Gallery
547 West 27th, 4th floor
New York, New York

Bruce Davidson, Honoree Richard Misrach and Aperture Trustee Joel Meyerowitz

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A big thank you to all who attended Monday night’s Aperture Foundation 2010 Benefit and Auction honoring Steven Ames, Richard Misrach and Julie Saul. The evening was an amazing success followed by the happening Snap! Benefit Party, and it wouldn’t have been possible without the generous support of Aperture patrons.

Click through the gallery above to see the party pictures.

Sway, 2009 by Jowhara AlSaud

Today is the first day to bid online for items in Aperture’s largest auction ever. Browse Aperture’s Auction Catalog which features photographic works by a diverse range of artists including Jowhara AlSaud, Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson, Joel Meyerowitz, Richard Misrach, Graham Nash, Mickalene Thomas, Brian Ulrich, James Welling, Kehinde Wiley, Michael Wolf, and Hank Willis Thomas. For the first time ever Aperture is also presenting an Emerging Artists Auction with works by Timothy Briner, Jen Davis, Cig Harvey, Mark Lyon, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and Will Steacy, among many others. Online bidding will remain open through Monday, November 1st at 12:00 noon EST.

Aperture’s 2010 Benefit and Auction will take place at The Lighthouse, Chelsea Piers on November 1st honoring Richard Misrach, Steven Ames, and Julie Saul. Immediately following the Benefit Dinner and Live Auction, the SNAP! Benefit Party co-chaired by Hank Willis Thomas, Carolyn Francis, and Giovanni Tomaselli of Polaroid, will feature special guest DJs, a raffle, an open bar, lite bites and treats.

Click here to preview auction items and bid online

Click here for more details and to purchase tickets to the 2010 Benefit Dinner & Auction

Click here for more details and to purchase tickets to the SNAP! Benefit Party

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All images courtesy of Elina Ruka.

Levi’s® kicked off their Photo Workshop in New York City with an amazing opening party on October 7th. The Levi’s® Photo Workshop is open to the public and runs until December 18th.

Click here for more information about the Levi’s® Photo Workshop.

Click here for information on the Artist Talk and Book Signing by Bruce Davidson, sponsored by Aperture.

Bruce Davidson and Michelle Dunn Marsh, opening for La Nature de Paris, Maison Europénne de la Photographie, Paris, 2007

When I first started working at Aperture, one of my greatest challenges was reconciling the incredible photographs I’d pored over in publications with the flesh-and-blood people who’d created them. It was hard to imagine that an image, indelible in my mind and impacting audiences around the world, was not a divine manifestation, but rather the result of an extraordinary eye, often a steady hand, and a camera.

With time and through various professional opportunities at Aperture I have been privileged to meet many of my photographic heroes, and some have become important personal connections in my life-checking in with me after a recent trip, inquiring about my latest project, filling me in on their next exhibition or planned photo excursion. Bruce Davidson is one of these guiding lights, and I never pass up the opportunity to dine with him or to work with him.

When I first met with key people from the Levi’s® Workshop series to discuss a possible collaboration with Aperture, I was jotting down their goals in my notebook, along with the first names of photographers I thought might be a good fit. One of the people happened to glance down as I was writing and said excitedly, “You just wrote ‘Bruce.’ That wouldn’t be Bruce Davidson, would it?” When I confirmed, the brainstorming portion of the process was over-Levi’s® wanted to work with us if we could find a way to work with Bruce. And fortunately, Bruce was open to the idea of an event that focused on photography in New York, since he’s created so many important photographs here.

To hear Bruce Davidson’s stories in person and to see his selection of photographs from over fifty years of image-making is always a gift, and we are glad to facilitate the opportunity to share that gift with his friends, colleagues, and fans in New York on December 9 at the Levi’s® Photo Workshop.

-Michelle Dunn Marsh

Co-Publisher, Aperture magazine

Click here for more information on the Bruce Davidson Artist Talk and Book Signing.

Detail from Untitled, 2008 by Richard Misrach

Join Aperture for its 2010 Benefit and Auction on November 1st honoring photographer Richard Misrach; collector, philanthropist, former Aperture Trustee Steven Ames; and gallerist Julie Saul. This year’s auction will be Aperture’s largest ever with opportunities to bid on an exciting roster of prints by Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson, Susan Meiselas, Joel Meyerowitz, Curtis Mann, Mickalene Thomas, Paul Strand, James Welling, Hank Willis Thomas and Kehinde Wiley among others.

Directly following the Benefit and Auction, the first-ever SNAP! Benefit Party and Emerging Artists Silent Auction hosted by SNAP!, Aperture’s Young Patrons Program will feature music spun by special guests DJs, an open bar, and great raffle prizes. The Emerging Artists Auction includes rising photographers such as Timothy Briner, Jen Davis, Adam Krause, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Will Steacy and many more.

Click here to preview silent and live auction items

Click here for more details and to purchase tickets to the 2010 Benefit and Auction

Click here for more details and to purchase tickets to the 2010 SNAP! Benefit Party

The cover of Bob Dylan’s latest album, “Together Through Life” features photographs from the legendary Bruce Davidson on the cover and Josef Koudelka on the back. Davidson’s work centers around a group of teenagers from Brooklyn called “The Jokers” whose antics he documented in summer of 1959. Magnum in Motion has created a video compilation of Davidson’s images to illustrate “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’”, click here to watch the full version via Amazon.

A visitor to the Aperture and D.A.P. booth at photo la this past weekend. Featured limited-edition prints from Takashi Homma, Thomas Allen, and Martin and Muñoz can be seen on the wall.

Bruce Davidson in conversation with Charlotte Cotton on Saturday, January 10, 2009 as part of the LACMA Artist Conversation Series.

Jim Goldberg signing copies of War Is Only Half the Story: The Aftermath Project at the Aperture booth on Sunday, January 11, following his lecture.

© Stephen Shames

The Department of Photography & Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts has announced the dates for an exhibition presenting approximately 75 works including letters, photographs, paintings, prints, video, and installation art by 50 artists who have transformed our understanding of identity, resistance, war and peace.

The exhibition will be on view in the Gulf + Western Gallery and in the 8th floor gallery of the Tisch School of the Arts Department of Photography & Imaging, located at 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place). Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays. This exhibition is open to the public and admission is free. Photo ID is required when entering the building. For further information on the exhibition or any of its accompanying events, visit photo.tisch.nyu.edu or call 212/998-1930.

Artists, filmmakers, and writers in the exhibition include: Emma Amos, Tomie Arai, William Cordova, Bruce Davidson, Thulani Davis, Leslie Hewitt, Jessica Ingram, Builder Levy, Lorie Novak, Norman Parish, Jolene Rickard, Stephen Shames, Margo Machida, Elaine Mayes, Iris Morales, Paul Owen, Robert Sengstacke,  Bob Stam, Jamel Shabazz, Hong-An Truong, Carla Williams, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Fran Wilson, and more.

This exhibition is currently on view through November 22. More Information.