TWO EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
EXPLORE PRIVATE VERSUS PUBLIC LIFE IN CHICAGO—PAST AND PRESENT

Aperture Gallery is pleased to present two simultaneous exhibitions exploring the city of Chicago from different vantage points and periods in history. While Michael Wolf’s large-scale color photographs of downtown Chicago’s buildings and their inhabitants examine public versus private space in the context of 21st-century urban life, Barbara Crane’s intimate Polaroids from the 1980s hone in on private human gestures performed in public at Chicago’s summer festivals.

Michael Wolf: Artist’s Talk and Book Signing
Tuesday, November 10, 6:30 pm

Barbara Crane and Barbara Hitchcock
in Conversation + Book Signing
Wednesday, November 11, 6:30 pm

Opening Reception with pics Fuji’s new instant cameras! :
Thursday, November 12, 6:00—8:00 pm

Exhibitions on view:
November 7, 2009—January 21, 2010

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
between 10th & 11th Avenues
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

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Slideluck Potshow united the photography community at Canoe Studios last week in New York City for a unique evening with a potluck-style dinner followed by a showcase of artist’s photographic slideshows. Both emerging and established artists were represented, including Aperture’s Michael Wolf and his series The Transparent City, which takes an in depth look at the environment and its inhabitants of urban Chicago as well as Aperture’s Brian Ulrich, showing his newest series Dark Stores. The non-profit organization, Slideluck Potshow is devoted to building and strengthening community around food and art.  In addition, it is their objective to promote public appreciation of the visual arts and to provide art education opportunities to school-age children in New York City.  Slideshow events are now taking place in about forty cities globally:  from Stockholm, to São Paulo, to San Francisco. Read the Flavorwire report on the event here.

Click here for a schedule of upcoming Slideluck Potshow events.

Click here to purchase your copy of Michael Wolf’s The Transparent City.

Click here to purchase a limited-edition print from Michael Wolf.

Click here to purchase your copy of Brian Ulrich’s MP3 Volume I.

Click here to purchase a limited-edition print from Brian Ulrich.

Check out photos of the event here.

The work of some of the most important photographers of the twentieth century is currently on view in The Christopher Hyland Collection of Photography, By Way of These Eyes: The Sublime, Exotic and Familiar at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT  from June 6 through September 6, 2009. Tonight marks the opening reception to celebrate the show. Over the last decade, the museum has organized a distinguished series of exhibitions of contemporary photography and this show focuses on a collection of work of twentieth-century photographers amassed by the keen eye of Christopher Hyland. Hyland, founder of one of the world’s leading textile manufacturing firms and a collector since his youth, has put together a body of work informed by his exceptional eye and world travels. The well-known tastemaker and private art collector, based in Chelsea, is an avid supporter of his neighbor, Aperture Foundation. Included in the Christopher Hyland Collection, which features works by the  renowned  artists Herb Ritz,  Henri Cartier Bresson, Robert Maplethorpe, Vik Muniz , Sally Mann, Edward Weston, and Edward Steichen, are works purchased from the Aperture Limited-Edition Photographs program: highlights include Christine, 2003 by Richard Renaldi ; Eva Le Porge, Jock Sturges; Michael Wolf’s tc39 and tc88;  The Edge of Vision Portfolio featuring the work of Bill Armstrong, Richard Caldicott, Manuel Geerinck, Mikko Sinervo, and Nicki Stager; portfolios by Paul Strand and single works by Brett Weston, among others. Exciting programming is scheduled as an accompaniment to the exhibition, with lectures centered on many of the artists Aperture has published through the years: Diane Arbus, Edward Weston, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz. and Sally Mann.  Also of note is the August 13 Art Happy Hour, titled the “The F stops here,” feature Ellen Carey and Bill Armstrong, included in the just published The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography. The New Britain Museum of American Art is a great destination for the photography enthusiast this summer!

The Christopher Hyland Collection of Photography, By Way of These Eyes: The Sublime, Exotic and Familiar
Saturday, June 6—Sunday, September 6, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, June 12, 2009 5:00—7:00 pm
New Britain Museum of American Art
56 Lexington Street
New Britain, CT
(860) 229-0257

The 88th Art Directors Club Award winners were announced Thursday, April 30 at the Art Directors Club Gallery in New York. Aperture-published titles Erwin Olaf and Michael Wolf’s The Transparent City were both recognized for Design in Print in Photography. Erwin Olaf won a silver cube award and The Transparent City took gold. Congratulations to all who were nominated and Aperture extends gratitude to our great design team. Be sure to get your copies of these award-winning books today!

Click here to purchase a signed copy of Michael Wolf’s The Transparent City.

Click here to purchase of Erwin Olaf.

Kellie McLaughlin under the just released Silvio Wolf limited-edition print, currently only available at Aperture’s booth at Art Chicago.

Earlier this week, two fabulous Aperturians, Kellie McLaughlin and Christina Caputo, drove from New York City to Chicago, Illinois with a van full of Aperture’s brand new books and prints and preview copies of the next issue of Aperture magazine to attend Art Chicago. Stop by and browse, meet some of our favorite artists, or just say hello!

Art Chicago
The International Fair of Contemporary and Modern Art

Friday, May 1–Monday, May 4, 2009
Opening Preview: Thursday, April 30
Booth #12-653

EVENTS AT THE APERTURE BOOTH
MP3: Volume I featuring Kelli Connell, Justin Newhall, and Brian Ulrich
and
MP3: Volume II featuring Curtis Mann, John Opera, and Stacia Yeapanis
Book Signing
Saturday, May 2, 1:00 pm

Private Views, Photographs by Barbara Crane
Artist’s Talk and Book Signing
Saturday, May 2, 5:00 pm

Uncovered, Photographs by Thomas Allen
Book Signing – JUST ANNOUNCED
Sunday, May 3, 1:00 pm

Class Pictures, Photographs by Dawoud Bey
Artist’s Talk and Book Signing
Sunday, May 3, 3:00 pm

SPECIAL EVENT
The Rape of the Sabine Women/Works by Eve Sussman & Rufus Corporation
Aperture Foundation Reception
Saturday, May 2, 6:00 pm

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Opening this week is Michael Wolf’s new solo exhibition, The Transparent City at Fifty One Fine Art Photography in Belgium. The show highlights Wolf’s body of work from his time in Chicago as an artist-in-residence for a commercial real estate firm. Through this privileged access and his zoom lens, Wolf captures more than the buildings, as his portraits of the urban landscape focus on interactions within the human dimension. With a hint of voyeurism, Wolf captures the complexities of the metropolis through the people who are literally framed by the awe-inspiring architecture. Works from Wolf’s The Transparent City will also be on view at Wouter Van Leeuwen Galerie in Amsterdam and at Elipsis Gallery in Istanbul.

The Transparent City
Friday, March 20–Saturday, April 25 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 19, 6:00-9:00 pm.
Fifty One Fine Art Photography
Zirkstraat 20
2000 Antwerpen, Belgium
03 289 84 58‎

The Transparent City
Saturday, April 11–Saturday, May 16, 2009
Wouter Van Leeuwen Galerie
Hazenstraat 27
1016 SM Amsterdam, Nederland
06-52031540

Michael Wolf
Sunday, March 15–Monday, June 15, 2009
Elipsis Gallery
Çukurcuma/Beyoğlu
Istanbul, Turkey
0090 212 249 48 92-93

Click here to buy a Limited-Edition print from Michael Wolf’s The Transparent City.

Click here to buy your signed copy of Michael Wolf’s The Transparent City through Aperture.

Opening this weekend in Naples, Italy, an exhibition featuring the work of photographer Michael Wolf. Titled New Humanity Quo vadis?, Wolf’s photographs showcase architecture as the dominating force of the city, and its inhabitants as literally framed within it. The details that are offered within his photographs add a voyeuristic feeling to urban life and underscore the complexities of the modern metropolis.

New Humanity Quo vadis?
Saturday, March 7–Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Entropyart In Progress
Via San Pasquale a Chiaia, 48-53
Napoli, Italy
+39 081 0607742

Michael Wolf’s book The Transparent City is available here through Aperture.

Click here to buy a limited-edition print from Michael Wolf.

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

Photographer Michael Wolf gives Artforum’s Brian Sholis 500 words on his experience creating The Transparent City, which is now on view at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Wolf began his project documenting Asia’s booming cities, focusing solely on architecture until he discovered a chance moment captured in his image.

“One evening I was looking at a photograph I had shot and I saw in it a man giving me the middle finger. In the exact moment he made that gesture I pressed the shutter, even though I had probably been standing there for twenty minutes.”

By zooming in, Wolf’s photographs achieved another whole dimension and purpose which he equates to a Hopper-esque aesthetic.

Read the full interview here at Artforum and be sure to check out The Transparent City, on view at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago through January 31, 2009.

Museum of Contemporary Photography
Columbia College Chicago
600 S. Michigan Ave
Chicago, Illinois

The Transparent City is also available in hardcover here, through Aperture.

Paris Photo 2008 honoring Japanese photography, just ended yesterday. It was a truly successful fair for Aperture! Here are a few highlights from the Aperture booth and our book signing event at colette.

On Thursday, legendary Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe dropped by the booth to sign copies of the recently launched first edition facsimile reissue of Barakei. Lucky visitors also had the chance to discover his new book projects.

Later in the afternoon, photographer Michal Chelbin signed her latest acclaimed book Strangely Familiar: Acrobats, Athletes, and Other Traveling Troupes.

On Friday, the notorious colette store hosted a special evening celebrating Aperture photographers and a stunning new season of books and prints. Michal Chelbin, Elena Dorfman, Takashi Homma, Erwin Olaf and Michael Wolf were there to sign books and party among 200 collectors and fans eager to meet them.

Erwin Olaf

Takashi Homma