Modern Day Halo #3, 2011, © Brea Souders

Exhibition on view:
January 20–March 3, 2012

The Camera Club of New York
The Arts Building
336 West 37th Street, Suite 206
New York, NY
(212) 260-9927

The Camera Club of New York presents Celestial, an exhibition arranged by guest curator Mark Alice Durant. Five photographic artists extend their views of our universe and the supernatural. The endless splendor of earth and space is researched and resolved through different sentiments and media: black and white photography, collage, charcoal drawings on negatives, film and performance.

The artists embrace imagination to represent the simplest and the most dramatic of celestial events. Intermediary substances are used, sprinkled across photographic paper, mimicking stars and constellations. Photograms and pinhole cameras are also utilized, representative of the capable nature of the photographic process, even through the most rudimentary of means.

Mark Alice Durant is an artist, writer, and curator. Durant’s photography has appeared in Aperture issue 199 and has contributed writing for issues 203, 196, and 195.

Issue 203 features:

Richard Mosse, featured on the Summer cover, negotiates the boundaries of documentary image making

Daido Moriyama discusses a lifetime of work

Mark Alice Durant on Hans- Peter Feldmann’s troves of images

British photographer Helen Sear fuses process and subject

Mo Yi captures street life in China’s cities

Emerging South African photographer Lindeka Qampi

Paolo Ventura’s recent project “Venice 1943”

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For the first time ever, the cover of Aperture features a drawing, not a photograph, as the cover image. In issue #196, these vibrant abstract works from William Eggleston are published for the first time and showcase a rarely seen part of the artist’s career. Also featured is a selection of William Klein’s work from 1956, soon-to-be-published in Rome (Aperture, October 2009), an examination of the role of monuments in photography by Mark Alice Durant, a review of ICP’s Year of Fashion from Holly Brubach, and Luc Sante‘s investigation into the early-twentieth-century photographic postcard. Philip Lopate also examines Sally Gall‘s new images of insects, Rob Hornstra documents less-than-fortunate Russians, photographer Gerald Slota and playwright Neil LaBute collaborate to create some very chilling scenarios, Debbie Fleming Caffery documents her native Louisiana, and more.

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Reader challenge: What exact medium does William Eggleston use to make these drawings?

Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, from the article The Artist Formerly Known as Fashion Photography

The Summer 2009 issue of Aperture, #195, is now on sale. Featuring a diverse and compelling array of images and writing from artists around the world, highlights include:

• The Difference A Painter Makes: Edward Hopper and Photography, notes by Jeffrey Fraenkel and Robert Adams on Hopper’s vision and its mark on photography.
• Daniel and Geo Fuchs: In the Halls of the Stasi, by Matthias Harder. A look at the now-quiet former headquarters of the East German secret police.
• Gay Men Play: Self-Representation, Sex, and Photography Now, by Chris Boot. Sexual identity explored through the medium of photography and on the Web.
• Maya Deren: A Life Choreographed for Camera, by Mark Alice Durant. Little-known photographs by the acclaimed avant-garde filmmaker.
• The Artist Formerly Known as Fashion Photography, by Jason Evans. Genre-bending photographers who are producing inventive fashion work.
• A Look at Look, by Mary Panzer. One of the twentieth century’s great picture magazines, brought back to light.
• Suyeon Yun: Homecoming. A selection from Yun’s project on American veterans of current and past wars.
• Don McCullin: Dark Landscapes, interview with Fred Ritchin. A photographer known for his unflinching visions of conflict and troubles discusses a long career.

And, coming soon to Exposures: video interviews with Don McCullin.

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