Image by Daniel Gordon

Daniel Gordon Artist Talk at Aperture

Artist Daniel Gordon will discuss his large-scale color photographs and unique process at Aperture tomorrow as part of the Parsons Lecture series. Gordon’s work was most recently featured in MoMA/PS1′s Greater NY show. The artist’s collage imagery which has been described by Conscientious blog’s Joerg Colberg as falling in the “somewhat disturbing part of the spectrum,” has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries.

Parsons Lecture Series: Daniel Gordon
6:30 PM, Tuesday, November 30th

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 West 27th Street
New York, New York

Image by Hank Willis Thomas

A Conversation with Leslie Hewitt and Hank Willis Thomas

Tomorrow evening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, artists Leslie Hewitt and Hank Willis Thomas will appear in conversation with Eva Respini, associate curator of MoMA’s photography department. This talk is the latest installment of the museum’s panel discussion series Conversations: Among Friends which brings artists, scholars and curators together in consideration of Art’s political and social contexts. Leslie Hewitt, was featured in Aperture published essay collection Words Without Pictures. Hank Willis Thomas’ monograph Pitch Blackness was released by Aperture in 2008.

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A Conversation with Leslie Hewitt and Hank Willis Thomas
November 30, 6:45 pm doors,

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
New York, New York

Image by Richard Misrach

Richard Misrach at SF Camerawork

Richard Misrach’s book tour for recent release and critically acclaimed publication Destroy This Memory continues tomorrow night at SF Camerawork in San Francisco. Recently called a “Masterpiece” by writer Geoff Dyer in the Financial Times, Destroy This Memory presents an affecting reminder of the physical and psychological impact of Hurricane Katrina capturing the grafitti and messages scrawled by survivor’s on walls during the Hurricane’s tragic aftermath. The talk will be followed by a book signing and artist’s reception.

Lecture and Book Signing with Richard Misrach
November 30th, 7:00 pm

SF Camerawork
657 Mission Street 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA

One of the treats of being an Aperture Work Scholar is the opportunity to meet and work with the many celebrated photographers, artists and writers going in and out of the Aperture office to look at proofs, review portfolios as well as discuss and propose projects. Most recently photographer Richard Misrach whose book Destroy this Memory was recently released by Aperture, stopped by for a quick visit!

Earlier in the week the photographer was honored at Aperture’s Benefit and Auction, gave a talk and book signing at The Strand to promote Destroy this Memory, and spent some time signing more books for Aperture Bookstore’s stock. To move things along, Richard, a few Aperture staff and I formed an assembly line and were able to quickly get through 100 or so books. Thank you Richard!

Just as Richard was getting ready to leave Hank Willis Thomas, author of Pitch Blackness, made a special appearance at the office, and the two esteemed Aperture photographers got to meet each other for the first time. Each of them signed their books for each other and got to share a brief but momentous occasion.

This Work Scholar post is by Communications intern Avril Kuo.

Avril is a recent graduate of Wellesley College where she studied art history and economics. Her favorite Aperture books are New York Rises and Black Passport. Avril enjoys figuring out how to use her Mamiya medium format camera and raiding her mother’s closet for vintage finds.

From the Work Scholar’s Desk is a new series on the Exposures blog presenting a behind the scenes look at Aperture’s many events, projects, the book making process, the Aperture Portfolio Prize and more from the perspective of Aperture’s Work Scholars. The Work Scholar program at Aperture places individuals of promise in the midst of Aperture’s various departments, engaging interns in the day to day activities of the institution.

Upcoming Events with these two Artists:

Lecture and Book Signing with Richard Misrach at SF Camerawork
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 7:00 pm

SF Camerawork
657 Mission Street 2nd floor
San Francisco, California

Conversations Among Friends with artists Hank Willis Thomas and Leslie Hewitt in conversation with curator Eva Respini at MoMA
Tuesday, November 30th, 7:00pm

MoMA
11 West 53 Street, Theater 2
New York, New York

Photo by Richard Misrach

One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds by Dave Anderson and Destroy This Memory by Richard Misrach, both new books from Aperture, document and reflect on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans’ road to recovery. On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of Katrina, these projects provide valuable and powerful portraits of the storm’s impact. Recent profiles on the New York Times Lens Blog, Nola.com, NPR provide insight into these bodies of work and now a number of upcoming events in New Orleans will bring the photographers and the work itself to New Orleans. Commemorate the past five years in New Orleans at the following exhibitions, events and block party taking place this week:

One Block:

One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds
Opening reception: Thursday, August 26th, 2010, 6:00PM
Exhibition on view: August 26, 2010 – Sunday, January 2, 2011

Ogden Museum of Southern Art
University of New Orleans
925 Camp Street
New Orleans, Louisiana

One Block: Block Party
Presented by Aperture, Oxford American and the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans
Saturday, August 28, 2010, 4:00 – 8:00 pm

500 block of Caffin Street
New Orleans, Louisiana

Destroy This Memory:

Unititled (New Orleans and the Gulf Coast 2005): Photographs by Richard Misrach
Exhibition on view Saturday, August 28, 2010 – Sunday, Occtober 24, 2010

The New Orleans Museum of Art
One Collins C. Diboll Circle
City Park
New Orleans Louisiana

Richard Misrach Artist Lecture and Book Signing
Sunday, August 29, 2010, 2:00 pm

The New Orleans Museum of Art
Stern Auditorium
One Collins C. Diboll Circle
City Park
New Orleans, Louisiana

Click here to view Dave Anderson’s One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds

Click here to view Richard Misrach’s Destroy This Memory

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