Join us for this fun, intimate, break-down-the-barriers, photo-collecting workshop. Moderated by Bill Hunt, the day will start with brunch and a conversation with other important collectors including Cathy Kaplan and Jan Larsen. Then venture out for a behind-the-scenes tour of various Chelsea galleries with Brian Clamp and artist Monika Merva, Daniel Cooney with artist Shen Wei, Robert Mann, Yancey Richardson, and Julie Saul, among other experts in the field. Each attendee will also receive a complimentary pass to the New York Photo Festival for Sunday, May 15th.

As there is limited space for this event, sign up to SNAP! New Collectors Program now and enjoy a full calendar of member-only activities including meet-the-artist events, and informal educational offerings; receive two complimentary Aperture publications and sneak peek offers on our new limited-edition prints and portfolios; among other benefits.

Saturday, May 14
12:30–4:30 pm

Click here for a full schedule of the event

FREE for current SNAP! members

Join SNAP! now
$250 SNAP! membership for one
Special offer for Do Ask, Do Tell: $400 SNAP! membership for two (regular price $500).
Contact ychehata@aperture.org for details. 

As the event is limited to 35 guests, attendance will be on a first-come, first-served basis with a minimum of 10 participants.

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street
4th Floor
New York, New York
(212) 946-7108

Image courtesy of Shen Wei and Daniel Cooney Fine Art, NY

HumanKind, a juried invitational photo exhibition presented by the New York Photo Festival in partnership with Leo Burnett, is looking for images that speak to the human experience in a social, cultural and personal context. The jury includes James Estrin, Co-Editor, New York Times Lens Blog; Alisa Wolfson, Design Director, Leo Burnett, Chicago; Marc Prüst, Photography Consultant; Alfredo Cramerotti, Associate Curator, Format International Photo Festival & Editor, Critical Photography book series; Dr. Christos Lynteris, Social Anthropology Department, University of St. Andrews, UK; and Sam Barzilay, Festival Director, New York Photo Festival.

120 images will be selected and exhibited at The powerHouse Arena in Dumbo Brooklyn, which opens on December 17, 2010 and will run until January 20, 2011.

The top three prizes will win:

• An exclusive portfolio review session with an award-winning Creative Director of Leo Burnett
• A one-on-one critique session with Daniel Power, Founder & CEO of powerHouse Books, and Chairman of the New York Photo Festival
• Free Participation to the 7th Annual powerHouse Portfolio Review

Hurry! The submission deadline is approaching: Sunday, November 28, 2010 @ midnight (PST)

HumanKind
December 17, 2010-Janary 20, 2011

The powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 666-3049

Click here for more information about HumanKind.

Aperture Gallery presents The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, curated by Lyle Rexer. From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. The Edge of Vision showcases the work of nineteen contemporary photographers who base their practice in some form of abstraction. Rexer defines abstraction as “a departure from or the eliding of an immediately apprehensible subject.” Within this broad definition, a host of approaches explore aspects of the photographic experience, including the chemistry of traditional photography, the mediation of lenses, the direct capture of light without a camera, temporal extensions, digital sampling of found images, radical cropping, and various deliberate destabilizations of photographic reference. Aperture will celebrate the opening of this exhibition with a reception featuring a live DJ Saturday night.

On Friday, May 15, Aperture hosts a panel moderated by Lyle Rexer, featuring artists Jack Sal, Silvio Wolf, and Penelope Umbrico at The New York Photo Festival. The panel will be followed by a book signing of Rexer’s recent Aperture publication The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography.

The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography
Panel Discussion

Friday, May 15, 2009  5:00 pm

FREE with Festival Admission

New York Photo Festival
St. Ann’s Warehouse
38 Water Street
Brooklyn, New York
(718) 254-8779

The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography
Exhibition and Opening Reception

Opening reception:
Saturday, May 16, 2009, 7:00–10:00 pm

Exhibition on view:
Friday, May 15, 2009 –Thursday, July 9, 2009

Talk & Book Signing with Lyle Rexer: Tuesday, June 16, 6:30 pm      

FREE

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

Click here to purchase your copy of The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Contemporary Photography.

Click here to purchase The Edge of Vision limited-edition portfolio.

The second annual New York Photo Festival taking place in Dumbo, Brooklyn, Wednesday, May 13, through Sunday, May 17. This year, the four main exhibition pavilions are curated by William A. Ewing, director of Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Chris Boot, head of the London-based publisher Chris Boot, Ltd.; Jody Quon, photography director at New York magazine; and Jon Levy, director of the London-based publisher Foto8. Visit Aperture’s booth in the powerHouse arena to see our latest books and limited-edition photographs. On Thursday evening, May 14, a special book signing and party will take place at the powerHouse arena, starting at 9:00 p.m., with many Aperture artists present to sign their books, including Catherine Chalmers, Michal Chelbin, Doug DuBois, Philip Gefter, Jacqueline Hassink, Charles Lindsay, Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz, Richard Renaldi, Lyle Rexer, Robin Schwartz, Jonathan Torgovnik and more. For the second year, each day the festival will feature Aperture Presents, a series of panel discussions at St. Ann’s Warehouse.

Aperture Presents Events include:

Artist-Publisher: Mass Produced for Mass Dissemination Thursday, May 14, 5–6 pm

The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography: Moderated by Lyle Rexer
Friday, May 15, 5–6 pm

Cuddle (with Bill Hunt)
Saturday, May 16, 5–6 pm

Photography After Frank, A Conversation Between Philip Gefter and Andy Grundberg
Sunday, May 17, 5–6 pm
FREE with Festival Admission

New York Photo Festival
St. Ann’s Warehouse
38 Water Street
Brooklyn, New York
(718) 254-8779

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Party and Book Signing at powerHouse arena with Aperture artists:
Thursday, May 14, 9:00 pm

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 –Sunday, May 17, 2009

The New York Photo Festival Headquarters
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, New York
(347) 853-7447

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The New York Photo Festival 2009 starts May 13, 2009, bringing together the latest and greatest in contemporary photography. NYPH09 Curators include William A. Ewing, Chris Boot, Jody Quon, and Jon Levy.

Aperture is proud to announce the return for the second year a series of events titled Aperture Presents to be held Thursday May 14 through Sunday May 17. This series will feature panel discussions and conversations with notables such as Lesley A. Martin,  Philip Gefter, and Lyle Rexer among others. Details to be announced shortly.

The New York Photo Festival
May 13-17, 2009
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, New York
(212) 604-9074

The New York Photo Awards 2009 will once again honor talented photographers from all over the world whose exceptional work breaks new grounds visually, intellectually and aesthetically. The Awards will give these visual artists the opportunity to reach key decision makers in the photographic community and the editorial, fine art and commercial worlds. Submissions will be accepted starting March 2^nd through May 1^st, 2009. The Award winners will be announced in May during the second edition of the Festival.

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN. Enter Here.

During the inaugural New York Photo Festival in DUMBO, New York, Edgar Martins was awarded a New York Photo Award for Personal/Fine Art Series. Click here to see a list of the other winners.

Aperture asked Martins to reflect on his recent win and to discuss the winning images from the series, The Accidental Theorist, which are featured in his new monograph and Aperture magazine, issue 184. Select limited-editions from the series are also available here and here. Martins discusses life and photography below:

Untitled, from the series The Accidental Theorist, 2005

I have always found photography to be a highly inadequate medium for communicating ideas, a subject and object of lack, if you like. However, it is this anxiety with the medium that spurs me on to find a new visual language to work with and, I suppose, a new vocabulary from which to derive my glossary of life. ‘The Accidental Theorist’, the series which was recently awarded the inaugural New York Photo Award (Personal/Fine Art Series) deals with many of these issues. I am extremely honored to have received this award, not only because it is one of the most sought awards in the industry but also because it is a recognition of all the hard work, which I and those around me (such as Aperture, which I have a lot to thank for) have invested into my practice over the last few years.

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At the New York Photo Festival, the Aperture Presents lecture In Conversation: Martin Parr and Erik Kessels was quite hilarious and intriguing.

Parr and Kessels took turns discussing the different bodies of work that explore their personal taste and ways of looking at photography, and what image research is like today using a range of sources from flea markets, to Flickr, to eBay.

Parr also spoke of his upcoming book release Parr World: Objects and Postcards (Aperture and Chris Boot Ltd.) due out August 2008. He claimed, “I wish my life was sponsored by eBay,” while discussing how he acquires eccentric ephemera such as Saddam Hussein watches and Spice Girl candy bars.

Erik Kessels describes how he uses vernacular imagery in advertising campaigns.

Parr discusses his series of self portraits that are taken all over the world. You can see more of these at the Magnum website.

Kessels revealed the story behind one of the books included in Aperture’s limited-edition boxed set, In Almost Every Picture. In the series above, a taxi travels throughout Europe with a nameless passenger. Kessels tracked down the driver in the Netherlands and discovered that the passenger, who was unable to walk, would hire the driver to take her to various countries and photograph her on their sojourns.

Parr self portrait

Kessels shares the tale of Oolong the talented rabbit and its blog. Kessels exhibited these images in a series titled Loving Your Pictures.

Read Telegraph article here.

Aperture booth in powerHouse arena with Aperture editorial work scholar Christy Wiles and Kellie McLaughlin, Manager of Limited-Edition Prints

Aperture magazine managing editor Michael Famighetti and New York Photo Festival Nominee photographer Matthew Monteith

Dutch Art Director Erik Kessels at opening night party, Wednesday, May 14

New York Photo Awards after party Friday, May 16

The Ubiquitous Image: Before and After

Before…

Christy Wiles installing Suns from Flickr

Artist and Chair of Bard MFA Photo Penelope Umbrico installing Tvs

Artist Curtis Mann installing his Modification Series

Fellow New York Photo Festival Curator Tim Barber

Views from the Internet, Penelope Umbrico

Artist Harrell Fletcher

Tvs, Penelople Umbrico

Aperture is pleased to participate in the first international level festival of photography to be based in New York, NYPH08, a joint initiative of powerHouse books and Vll Photo Agency.

Highlights include The Ubiquitous Image an exhibition curated by Lesley A. Martin (Publisher, Aperture Books) and Aperture Presents, a daily panel series with artists and curators.

Visit the Aperture booth in the powerHouse Arena!

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