Aperture aggregates the best posts from this past week in the photography blogosphere.

• Time’s Lightbox profiles ‘Act’: Meditations on the Disabled Body by Denis Darzacq, a two-year project of photographing “people who have had trouble finding a place in society from the beginning of their lives,” he says. The Paris-based photographer known for his high-energy images and dynamic subjects will be giving an artist talk at Aperture this Monday, April 16, 2012 at 6:30 pm, FREE.
• Kathy Ryan, editor of The New York Times Magazine Photographs, shares the fascinating backstory of a photograph of Mohammad Ali with his future wife Lonnie that ran in the Sunday Magazine, taken at “the moment Cassius and I met,”  Lonnie wrote in an email to the photographer, Steve Schapiro.
• The New Yorker‘s photo department shares a collection of reader-submitted, “Hand-Picked Instagrams,” (as Wall Street Journal did last week, and more publications probably will in the future) alongside a thought-provoking essay by Ian Crouch, “Instagram’s Instant Nostalgia.” This, in the same week New York Times’ Bits Blog reports Facebook will buy Instagram for $1 billion.
• The British Journal of Photography reports on a controversial ad campaign for photographers’ rights launched by the French organization Union des Photographes Professionnels – Auteurs. In related news this week, the American Society of Media Photographers has filed a class action lawsuit against Google, PetaPixel reports, for “scanning, indexing, and storing copyright work without permission of the copyright holders” for their ambitions Google Books project.
• DIY gallerists take note: Phototuts+ shares “An Expert Guide to Matting and Framing a Photo,” which should be useful after you’ve watched their video lecture on Ansel Adams–delivered by Allan Ross who was Adams’ darkroom assistant for many years–and printed a bunch of restrained, expertly metered black-and-white landscape photographs of your own.
• American Suburb X shares a number of Nan Goldin readings this week, including an essay by Nan on actress and close friend Cookie Mueller who died of AIDS in 1989, as well as a fascinating in-depth paper by Mihaela Precup, “The Wound Which Speaks of Unremembered Time: Nan Goldin’s Cookie Portfolio and the Autobiographics of Mourning.” All great reads; our only quibble is: where did they come from? [UPDATE: ASX has appended the source of one of the pieces, created originally by Dirck Halstead at the once-pioneering web journal digitaljournalist.org]
• The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announce their 2012 Fellowships in photography, PDN Pulse reports. Ten photographers, including Doug Dubois of the monograph All the Days and Nights, and John Gossage, whose exhibition The Pond and a Little Romance opens today in Chicago, join the ranks of past recipients Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Robert Adams, Richard Mosse, Brian Ulrich, and Penelope Umbrico.

The Wild Project is pleased to present an exhibition of limited-edition prints produced by Aperture Foundation. Aperture Foundation is a leading photography non-profit dedicated to promoting photography in all its forms based in Chelsea. The exhibition focuses on contemporary artists whose work, in many cases, has been featured in Aperture Magazine, Aperture books, in exhibitions at Aperture Gallery or have been winners of the Portfolio Prize contest. This exhibition features Michel Campeau, Maureen Drennan, Doug DuBois, JH Engström, Todd Hido, Kalle Kataila, Mark Lyon, Edgar Martins, and Bas Princen.

Aperture Foundation is proud to have one of the longest running limited-edition print and portfolio programs in the United States. The print program started in the 1960’s with collaborations between the master photographers Paul Strand and later with Edward Steichen. The print program expanded over the years to offer richly diverse editions and portfolios to art lovers and collectors. Today the program works with several artists’ estates and presents prints that range from masters of the medium, to established contemporary artists and finally highlights many emerging artists of tomorrow. Proceeds from the sales benefit the artists and helps maintain the quality of Aperture’s publications and public programming. The print program supports the organization’s non-profit mission to advance photography in all its forms.

May 11–September 7, 2011
Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 29, 6-8pm

Wild Project
195 East 3rd Street
New York, NY 10009

Image: My Sister’s bedroom by Doug Dubois, 2004, courtesy Doug Dubois

Thank you to Photo District News for throwing a fabulous party atop Tribeca Rooftop celebrating the the winners featured in the 2010 PDN Photo Annual issue. This year’s issue recognized a number of Aperture books and affiliated photographers  including Jonathan Torgovnik’s Intended Consequences; Doug DuBois’ All the Days and Nights; The Edge of Vision, by Lyle Rexer; Paolo Ventura’s Winter Stories, Eirik Johnson’s Sawdust Mountain; Joel Meyerowitz’s Legacy; and Robert Adam’s Summer Nights, Walking, as well as photographer Gabrielle Stabile who is part of the Aperture Green Cart Project.

Check out the fun had by all, thanks to Fujifilm Instax Cameras! Pictured above: Casey Kelbaugh of Slideluck Potshow, Editor of PDN Conor Risch, Photographer Wyatt Gallery, Andrew Hetherington of Whats the Jackanory, Photographer Gillian Laub and Aperture’s Lesley Martin, Photo Editor of Time Magazine Paul Moakley, Michelle Dunn Marsh, Photographer Paolo Ventura and Aperture’s Denise Wolff, including Photo Annual Winners Gabrielle Stabile, Rachel Barrett and Jon Smith.)

Click here to view PDN’s online gallery of works featured in the 2010 issue.

Attendees of Aperture Foundation’s reception for the exhibition No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography (currently on view at the Aperture Gallery and at Instituto Cervantes) were audience to a thrilling and moving performance by the influential contemporary Flamenco dancer Pastora Galván.

No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography is curated by José Lebrero Stals and covers more than one hundred and fifty years of images, presenting an extensive survey of how photographers of different eras have approached the universe of flamenco, whether documenting the dance itself, gestures that recall it, or the culture that has developed around it.

Please enjoy the following edited excerpt of Galván’s performance and be sure to explore the No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography exhibition in-person at both Aperture Gallery and Instituto Cervantes.

Stop by the Aperture Gallery this Saturday, March 6th, for Aperture’s  Armory Brunch and peruse the images from this historic show as well as greet other members of the Aperture community. The event will feature exclusives on books and limited edition prints and special appearances by photographers including Zwelethu Mthethwa, Eirik Johnson, Susan Meiselas, Doug Dubois, Donna Ferrato, Joel Meyerowitz, Jacqueline Hassink, and Gillian Laub. Refreshments will be served.

No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography
On view through April 1st

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
Monday – Saturday: 10:00am – 6:00pm

Amster Yard Gallery at Instituto Cervantes
211 East 49th Street
New York, New York
Monday – Friday: 10:30am-6:30pm
Saturday: 10:30am-1:30pm

View the New York Times Review of No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography

Opening Thursday, October 29th, at Higher Pictures in New York City is All the Days and Nights, photographs by Doug DuBois. Featuring works from his monograph by the same name, DuBois turned the lens on his family over a twenty-five year period. These personal reflections stimulate more introspection than your average family photos as DuBois conveys the aftermath of his father’s near-death accident and mother’s consequential emotional breakdown.  His capture of mundane moments shine light on the subtle complexities of his evolving family dynamics.  DuBois will attend the opening reception and sign copies of his monograph.

Doug DuBois: All the Days and Nights
Thursday, October 29—Saturday, December 5, 2009

Opening Reception and Book Signing:
Thursday, October 29, 2009  6:00—8:00 pm

Higher Pictures
764 Madison Avenue, New York
(212) 249-6100

Click here to purchase All the Days and Nights through Aperture

Click here to view the  limited-edition print from Doug DuBois

This month’s Flak Photo WEEKEND series features work from photographer Doug DuBois’s title All the Days and Nights. A deeply personal body of work, DuBois first started photographing his family in 1984, before his father’s near fatal injury from a commuter train. Coping with the graveness of this hardship, he documents his family members through a tender lens, revealing the subtle complexities of their personalities and the dynamics of their relationships with one another. This poignant memoir engages the viewer in its emotional immediacy and showcases the tribulations of those closest to him.
Aperture and Flak Photo are giving away 5 signed copies of All the Days and Nights! To enter, browse the Flak Photo Gallery and post a link to one of your favorite photographs on Flak Photo’s Facebook wall. Winners will be chosen at random, click here for full details.

Click here to view Doug DuBois on Flak Photo.

Click here to read the 5B4 review of All the Days and Nights.

Click here to purchase your copy of All the Days and Nights.

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Currently on press at Sing Cheong Printing for the upcoming Aperture book, All the Days and Nights, is photographer Doug DuBois and Aperture’s Production Director Matthew Pimm.  Check out the extended gallery below for more pictures from their adventures in Hong Kong.

Read about the complexities and dynamics of using one’s own family as subject matter, as DuBois elaborates here in an interview with Alec Soth. Also be sure to check out Doug DuBois’ website for a sneak peek at some of the works from one of Aperture’s newest titles.

Click below to see more images by Doug DuBois.

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