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

Now available on eBay, a first-edition signed copy of Katy Grannan’s best-selling Aperture monograph, a signed, limited-edition Eikoh Hosoe, and a limited-edition print from contemporary photographer Edgar Martins.

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Palmbeach³ Contemporary Art Fair, opened today at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. This four-day event features collections from over 80 national and international dealers, including Aperture, located at booth A13. The contemporary works at the fair range from museum-level artists like Robert Rauschenberg to emerging and mid-career artists, in all forms of media. Aperture’s booth reflects this milieu with photographic prints on display from artists ranging from Imogen Cunningham to buzz-worthy newcomers Edgar Martins and Michael Wolf.

Palmbeach³ Contemporary Art Fair
Thursday, January 15 –Sunday, January 18, 2009

Palm Beach County Convention Center
650 Okeechobee Boulevard
West Palm Beach, Florida
(561) 209-1308

During the inaugural New York Photo Festival in DUMBO, New York, Edgar Martins was awarded a New York Photo Award for Personal/Fine Art Series. Click here to see a list of the other winners.

Aperture asked Martins to reflect on his recent win and to discuss the winning images from the series, The Accidental Theorist, which are featured in his new monograph and Aperture magazine, issue 184. Select limited-editions from the series are also available here and here. Martins discusses life and photography below:

Untitled, from the series The Accidental Theorist, 2005

I have always found photography to be a highly inadequate medium for communicating ideas, a subject and object of lack, if you like. However, it is this anxiety with the medium that spurs me on to find a new visual language to work with and, I suppose, a new vocabulary from which to derive my glossary of life. ‘The Accidental Theorist’, the series which was recently awarded the inaugural New York Photo Award (Personal/Fine Art Series) deals with many of these issues. I am extremely honored to have received this award, not only because it is one of the most sought awards in the industry but also because it is a recognition of all the hard work, which I and those around me (such as Aperture, which I have a lot to thank for) have invested into my practice over the last few years.

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As featured in his recently released monograph, Edgar Martins: Topologies, Aperture Foundation is now offering a limited-edition photograph from artist Edgar Martins.

Untitled, from the series Hidden, 2005

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