Lawnmower, Pittsburgh, 2004 © Paul Graham

A Conversation with Photographer Paul Graham
Monday, February 9, 7:00 pm
Visual Arts Theater
School of Visual Arts
333 West 23 Street
New York, New York
212 592 2011

FREE

The School of Visual Arts and Dear Dave magazine present photographer Paul Graham in dialogue with New York Times writer Philip Gefter.

British-born Paul Graham is recognized for his innovative and experimental contextualization of images and his unique way of assigning meaning to simple aspects in life. His latest work, A Shimmer of Possibility, which will be on view at MoMA from February 4–May 18, 2009 is a selection from a series of photographic works, illustrating the photographer’s particularly tender observation of daily life. Each simple, but structurally inventive series of images, focuses on one subject and each image builds upon the next to create a narrative, which allows us to get a glimpse into unanticipated moments in the lives of each individual.

The dialogue is the first in series of writer Philip Gefter’s conversations exploring contemporary photography among noted artists, critics, curators and editors.

A collection of his essays will be published in April by Aperture as Photography After Frank.

The Printed Picture

Exhibition on view: October 17, 2008 – June 1, 2009

Lecture: Saturday, October 18, 2008, 11:30 a.m. with Diana Bush

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York, New York

An educational installation portraying the history of picture-making is now on view at the Museum of Modern Art. The show includes sixty enlarged details magnified fifty times to reveal the technical elements involved in printing. The exhibition opens in conjunction with the release of The Printed Picture, a book by master printer Richard Benson, that traces the changing role of technology in producing multiple images. Benson, who has worked as a printer and photographer for over forty years, is known for his incredible ability to produce outstanding photographic prints. In fact, Benson printed several Paul Strand limited-edition prints for Aperture Foundation, including Wire Wheel (pictured), Alfred Stieglitz, Lake George, St. Francis Church, Rancho de Taos, and a platinum print of Wall Street, of which there is only one left. Benson also printed Strand’s Garden Portfolio (Portfolio Four), which consists of 10 gelatin-silver photographs, printed under Strand’s supervision in the artist’s darkroom in Orgeval, France, shortly before Strand’s death.

Breaking in, Rustdene Township, Beaufort West, 2006, Mikhael Subotzky

New Photography 2008: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky

Exhibition on view: September 10, 2008–January 5, 2009

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY

New Photography, an annual fall showcase at MoMA, features the work of Mikhael Subotzky, who appeared in issue 188 of Aperture magazine. The exhibition will feature his most recent series, Beaufort West. This series portrays an impoverished desert town between Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa.

Born in Cape Town, Subotzky, 26, has received several awards since graduating from the University of Cape Town in 2004. By taking pictures of his native land, the young Magnum photographer attempts, “to make sense of the very strange world that I see around me. I don’t ever expect to achieve that understanding, but the fact that I am trying comforts me.”

Josephine Meckseper will be featured in the exhibition as well.