After Identity, What?, 2011 © Hank Willis Thomas

Aperture is pleased to present a new limited-edition photograph by Hank Willis Thomas. After Identity, What? is part of the artist’s 1969 series. MoMA PS1 invited Hank Willis Thomas and other artists to respond to the year 1969, a period marked with revolution and socio-political tumult. The artists made work utilizing images from magazines of the period and juxtaposed them with text derived from the same publications. The resulting pieces demonstrate the concerns and social values of the era and reflect a historical perspective only the passage of time can provide.

Aperture also published Willis Thomas’s first monograph Pitch Blackness (2008), and then released the now sold-out limited-edition photograph, Black Power.

Read FLYP interview with Hank Willis Thomas.

Read an interview with Hank in Art in America Magazine.

Join Aperture this weekend at the New York Art Book Fair, Printed Matter‘s annual fair of contemporary art books, catalogs, artists’ books, periodicals, and ‘zines offered for sale by over 200 international publishers, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, and independent artist/publishers representing the best in contemporary art publications. Philip Aarons, Chair of the Board for Printed Matter, Inc., says: “The NY Art Book Fair remains the premier venue to find what’s new in art publishing. This year’s focus on artists’ photography books, and the addition of more than 60 zinesters in an outdoor tent, will make this year’s edition of the Fair the best so far.”

Visit our booth featuring books such as Penelope Umbrico (photographs), Handbook by Gary Schneider, and The Reconsidered Archive of Michelle duBois by Zoe Crosher and also now available is our new Aperture Tote!

Preview: Thursday, September 29, 2011
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Friday, September 30, 2011–Sunday, October 2, 2011
11:00 am–7:00 pm

This event is free and open to the public.

MoMA PS1
2225 Jackson Ave
Long Island City, New York