Photo by Michael Wolf

Aperture Foundation, The Photography Department in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School will present an exciting panel discussion Contemporary Documentary Practices as part of the Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context. This talk will take place at the New School’s Tischman Auditorium and brings together photographers LaToya Ruby Frazier, Michael Wolf, Chris Verene and moderater Susan Bright. Revisiting Martha Rosler’s In, Around and Afterthoughts (on Documentary Photography), the panel will use this seminal text published by Rosler in 1981, as a launching point from which to discuss contemporary photographic practices and art strategies. The discussion will examine the medium of photography’s ability to foster social and political engagement today.

Contemporary Documentary Practices
Wednesday, November 3,  7:00 pm

The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York, New York

Last night at the annual Aperture Holiday Party a polaroid camera was swung around to various photographers who attended to take a photo of whatever they pleased, creating a collective document of the experience.

Elena Dorfman

Martha Rosler

Cara Philips

Hank Willis Thomas

Robin Schwartz by Amelia Forman

Stefan Ruiz

Larry Ossei-Mensah

Michael Mazzeo

Andrew Hetherington with Stefan Ruiz