79 Moons From Flickr – 51 Visible, 87 Suns From Flickr – 29 Visible © Penelope Umbrico

In collaboration with 20×200, A Jen Bekman Project, Aperture Foundation is pleased to present two exclusive images from Penelope Umbrico, from the series Suns from Flickr, now available starting as low as $50 for a 11″x14″ print.

Penelope Umbrico combines multiple “sunset” and “moonrise” photographs found on Flickr, and superimposes them in Photoshop. Each photograph is visible to a greater or lesser degree depending on the amount of opacity she gives each, which is indicated in the titles of the images: 79 Moons From Flickr – 51 Visible and 87 Suns From Flickr – 29 Visible.

About the Aperture/20×200 project, Lesley A. Martin, Aperture’s Book Publisher, who curated a show of Umbrico’s work notes:

“It’s pretty much one year ago today that Penelope Umbrico first premiered her now nearly ubiquitous Suns from Flickr as part of the show I curated for the 1st annual NYPH. This piece in particular received much-deserved critical response — Ken Johnson called it ‘spectacular’ in his review for the New York Times. The piece will also now appear in the forthcoming Aperture publication The Edge Of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography by Lyle Rexer. So I’m super excited that for this, Aperture’s first collaboration with Jen Bekman’s 20×200 project, Penelope has generously agreed to create two brand new images — each of which is related to the Suns installation, but in classic Umbrico fashion, are totally new and creative re-renderings of her ideas for the specific purpose of the 20×200 format.

“So we’re all super excited about it here at Aperture. Special thanks to Penelope Umbrico and the folks at 20×200! We’re looking forward to hearing people’s comments about the prints now that they’re available … ”

20×200’s mission is to make art easily accessible for everyone, and offers extremely affordable exhibition-quality prints, available exclusively online. So buy one of these brilliant images today and support Aperture in the process.

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 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.