Chicago by Brian Ulrich

Art Chicago, the annual international fair of contemporary and modern art, opens this Friday!

Visit Aperture’s Art Chicago booth for exciting new and classic Aperture publications, limited-edition photographs and Aperture Magazine subscriptions.

In addition a panel discussion about  Aperture and the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s ongoing collaboration The Midwest Photographers Project will take place at Art Chicago’s NEXT Talk Shop this Sunday at 3:00pm. Panelists will include artists Curtis Mann and Brian Ulrich, Aperture’s Christina Caputo and MoCP’s Karen Irvine.

Aperture at Art Chicago
Friday, April 30, 2010 – Monday, May 3, 2010
Booth 12-363

The Midwest Photographers Project Panel Discussion
Sunday, May 2, 2010 3:00 PM
NEXT Talk Shop

Art Chicago
The Merchandise Mart
222 Merchandise Mart Plaza
Chicago, Illinois

Click here to view MP3: Midwest Photographer’s Project Volume I

Click here to view MP3: Midwest Photographer’s Project Volume II

Click here to buy a limited-edition of Chicago, by Brian Ulrich. 

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.