Photos Courtesy Cultural Services / The French Embassy in the U.S.

Over the course of the last month, upwards of 300 children from elementary schools across New York City were invited to visit the special exhibition of Robert Delpire’s children’s books at Cultural Services of the French Embassy, part of the city-wide celebration of Delpire’s six decades of visionary publishing work, in conjunction with Aperture’s own 60th anniversary celebration.

These free morning workshops offered interactive, bilingual activities including monster mask-making inspired by Actibum’s The Masks, readings from André François’ Crocodile Tears and Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, book cover design and more.

The exhibition closed Friday, June 8, 2012, but if you missed out make sure to view this video from the French Embassy, Where The Wild Things Are : an Homage to Maurice Sendak and Les editions Delpire, and check out the remaining Delpire & Co. exhibitions on view.

Through July 19, 2012:

• Classic publications by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, William Klein, Josef Koudelka, Sarah Moon and more at Aperture (547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor).
• Contemporary photography from Michael Ackerman, Jehsong Baak, Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt, Harry Gruyaert and more at The Gallery at Hermès/Fondation d’entreprise Hermès (691 Madison Aveune).
• Illustraitions from the Poche Illustrateur series, celebrating Roman Cieślewicz, Honoré Daumier, Etienne Delessert and more at La Maison Française of New York University (16 Washington Mews, at University Place).

Through July 16, 2012:

• Sarah Moon: Now and Then at Howard Greenberg Gallery (41 E. 57th St.).
  
• A Tribute to Robert Delpire: Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Josef Koudelka, Duane Michals, and Paolo Roversi at Pace/MacGill Gallery (32 E. 57th St., 9th Floor).

Rene Magritte in Bowler Hat (Multiple Exposure), 1965,  © Duane Michals

This summer Pace/MacGill Gallery is exhibiting portfolios by six legendary artists: A Box of Ten Photographs by Diane Arbus, Portfolio by Robert Frank, Fifteen Photographs by Lee Friedlander, A Visit With Magritte by Duane Michals, Portfolio I by Robert Rauschenberg and Fifteen Photographs Garry Winogrand.

Aperture has featured many of these photographers in one form or another, particularly Diane Arbus. Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph is a 25th anniversary edition survey of her work, Diane Arbus: Magazine Work is a remarkable collection of portraits, Diane Arbus: Untitled demonstrates Arbus’s remarkable visual lyricism, and the upcoming Diane Arbus: A Chronology is the closest thing possible to reading a contemporaneous diary by the daring, influential, and controversial artist. She was also featured in issues of Aperture magazine: Aperture 199 and Aperture 168.

You can also see Duane Michal’s work in the recently released publication Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography, a book that traces the rise of the album from the turn of the century to the present day, showcasing some of the most important examples in the history of the medium.

Check out our website for more books and magazines featuring these six prolific photographers, and head over to Pace/MacGill Gallery to see the amazing portfolios.

Pace/MacGill Gallery:
32 East 52nd Street
New York, NY
(212) 759-7999

Exhibition on View:
July 14 – August 24

Join Verna Curtis, curator of photography in the Prints & Photographs Division of the Library of Congress; photographer Duane Michals, as well as Aperture Editor Denise Wolff to discuss the illustrated history of a mode of presentation that became an art form in itself—a history that has seen radical shifts in the role of handmade artists’ objects. This panel takes place on the occasion of the release of Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography which traces the rise of the album from the turn of the century to the present day, showcasing some of the most important examples in the history of the medium, as collected by the Library of Congress.

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore

Tuesday, June 14, 6:30 pm

Free

Click here to purchase the book Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography

Magnus Was Burnt by Solange’s Fiery Mane, 1/23/08; photograph in issue 192 of Aperture magazine

Duane Michals: Photographs from the Floating World

Opening reception: December 4, 2008, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Exhibition on view: December 4, 2008 – January 10, 2009

Pace/MacGill Gallery
32 East 57th Street
New York, New York

FREE

An exhibition of Duane Michals’s series, “Photographs from the Floating World,” is now on view at Pace/MacGill Gallery. The exhibition features images from Michals’s early experimentation with non-commercial color photography coupled with original descriptions. He has described this body of work as revealing “the real world of appearances in which we live.” Michals was featured in the Fall 2008 issue of Aperture for his “Chromophilia” series wherein he was commended for his ability to “exercise the prerogative of allowing his work to evolve and change.”

New Aperture magazine with Josef Koudelka, Duane Michals, Joel Sternfeld, and more!

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The fall issue of Aperture (issue 192) features:

Claudia Angelmaier: Reproduction Art
A reflection on the age of mechanical reproduction in the work of art by Brian Dillon.

Invasion 68: Prague by Josef Koudelka
An in-depth interview with Koudelka about his documentation of the Soviet-led invasion of Prague.

Walead Beshty: Piece By Piece
Jan Tumlir examines Beshty’s protean engagement with photography.

Leaving Kansas: A Look At Second Life
Fred Ritchin gives a tour of the Internet’s alternative to reality, Second Life, through the photographs of Michael Schmelling.

Framing the Presidency: The Evolution of the Campaign Image
Robert Hariman discusses how candidates have been depicted photographically over the past century.

Re-Viewing Rear Window
David Campany considers the role of photography in Hitchcock’s classic film.

Duane Michals: Chromophilia
Robert Kushner comments on a portfolio of Michals’s most recent work in color.

Hanatsubaki: Perfection is Lifeless
The long life of an adventurous Japanese magazine, by Jason Evans.

Joel Sternfeld: Oxbow Archive
Gretel Ehrlich looks at Sternfeld’s latest project in a meditation on seasonality in the age of climate change.

And be sure to catch the Invasion 68 Prague exhibition, photographs by Josef Koudelka, at Aperture Gallery in New York City September 4 – October 30, 2008.