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

• LensBlog explores why Rodrigo Abd‘s photograph of a young Syrian boy expressing grief over the death of his father landed on the front page of three of the most prominent national papers in the United States.

• Time magazine’s photo blog Lightbox celebrated it’s one year anniversary, revisiting their first post and the continuing saga of War is Personal by legendary photojournalist Eugene Richards, of the controversial 1994 Aperture monograph Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue.

• Conscientious, GalleristNY and LVP Magazine weigh in on Cindy Sherman’s retrospective at MOMA and on the “unanimity” among critics in New York reviewing it.

• One year after a devastating tsunami hit the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011, The New York Times does a “Side-by-Side look at Distruction and Renewal.” The Big Picture at Boston.com, Huffington Post, National Geographic, and The New Yorker ran similar posts, as did Time’s Lightbox, featuring a slideshow of photos by James Nachtwey, whose work is in The New York Times Magazine Photographs (Aperture 2011) edited by Kathy Ryan.

• NPR prompts the question: “You know Ansel, But Who is Robert Adams (And Why Should You Care)?” Bob Adams, of the recently reissued Aperture monographs The New West and Summer Nights, Walking, has a traveling retrospective The Place We Live now on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

• Sarah Palmer was just announced winner of the Aperture 2011 Portfolio Prize for her series As a Real House. Read her 2009 review of Eirik Johnson’s Sawdust Mountain, Robert Adam’s Summer Nights and Joel Meyerowitz’s Legacy, from when she was editor at Metropolis Magazine.

• Finally, Jonathan Blaustein‘s intensely personal column on APhotoEditor.com reviewing Donald Weber‘s beautifully put together photobook Interrogations is one of the best-written posts we’ve read all week. Interrogations will also be reviewed in the upcoming second issue of The Photobook Review.

Central Park, Hallett Nature Sanctuary, winter. Courtesy Joel Meyerowitz/Edwynn Houk Gallery

Join master photographer Joel Meyerowitz for a talk and book signing at The Strand Book Store on the occasion of the publication of Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks. This compelling body of work is the result of a unique commission Meyerowitz received from the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation to document, interpret, and celebrate one of the city’s greatest legacies: nearly nine thousand acres of parks in the five boroughs that still exist close to their original pristine state, as well as areas within parks that have been left to revert to wilderness.

Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks
Joel Meyerowitz: Artist’s Talk and Book Signing
Wednesday, December 9, 7 pm

FREE

The Strand Book Store
828 Broadway (@ 12th Street)
2nd floor/Art Department
New York, New York

Aperture will host a live twitterview with photographer Joel Meyerowitz. Tweet your questions to @aperturefnd on Wednesday, November 4 at 4pm, and Joel will respond in 140 characters or less. Both Joel and Aperture are excited to answer questions about his latest project Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks from fans and emerging photographers around the world.

Join master photographer Joel Meyerowitz for a talk on his work documenting the hidden pockets of nature that still exist within the urban environs of the city for the publication of Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks. This compelling body of work is the result of a unique commission Meyerowitz received from the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation to document, interpret, and celebrate the least developed areas within one of the city’s greatest legacies: the twenty-nine thousand acres of parks in the five boroughs. An exhibition of this series will be on view at the Museum of the City of New York, October 9, 2009 though March 7, 2010.

Legacy is now available through Aperture!

FREE

Joel Meyerowitz
Artist talk and book signing
Tuesday, September 29,  6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery
547 W 27th Street
New York
(212) 505-5555

See other events here, including Meyerowitz in conversation with author Philip Lopate at Barnes & Noble.

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On Friday, April 17, Aperture Foundation welcomed a group of trustees and patrons to a private tour of Central Park’s Hallett Sanctuary with master photographer Joel Meyerowitz. The tour offered a sneak peek of Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York, a Fall 2009 publication featuring more than 250 of Mr. Meyerowitz’s color photographs of the city’s Forever Wild Nature Preserves—pristine, pre-urban landscapes preserved by the Department of Parks & Recreation within the five boroughs. The publication will coincide with an exhibition originating at the Museum of the City of New York and then traveling to U.S. and international venues from 2009 to 2013.  Guests brought their cameras and took shots of the wild sanctuary flora against the backdrop of midtown’s skyscrapers. The sunny trip ended with a lunch at Sarabeth’s Central Park South.

Click the lower right corner of the images to view slideshow fullscreen.