In the clip above, Alex Prager, in conversation with gallerist Yancey Richardson (September 30, 2010 at Aperture as part of the Parsons Lecture Series), talks about wandering through the Getty Center one day, never before having considered photography, stumbling upon William Eggleston’s print of old shoes under a bed and being completely moved and inspired to pick up a camera for the first time.

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Out of 100 nominees from around the world, an international jury has selected photographer Alex Prager, who was showcased at MoMA’s New Photography 2010 exhibition, as winner of the Foam Paul Huf Award 2012. Simon Baker, chairman of the jury, said:

Prager’s work is original, intelligent and seductive. She thoroughly deserves her place in the company of former Foam Paul Huf winners, which is fast becoming a who’s who of contemporary photographic practice.

The annual € 20,000 prize is awarded to a photographer under 35 years of age, who then goes on to present their work in a solo exhibition at the Foam Museum. Prager’s saturated, cinematic, stylized and glamourously surreal photographs will be on view in Amsterdam August 31, 2012 – October 14, 2012.

Foam Amsterdam
Keizersgracht 609, 1017 DS
Binnenstad, Netherlands
+31 20 551 6500

Prager will also have a multi-city solo exhibition, Compulsion, on view simultaneously at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, M+B Gallery in LA, and Michael Hoppen Gallery in London, April 5, 2012 – May 19, 2012.  Huffington Post has a behind-the-scenes photo exclusive of the show and Q&A with the photographer.

Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York, NY 10011
(646) 230-9610

M+B Gallery
612 North Almont Drive
Los Angeles, California 90069
(310) 550-0050

Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place,
London SW3 3TD
+44 (0)20 7352 3649

© Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos

Parsons Artist Talk with Christopher Anderson:
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
6:30 pm

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

FREE

Join Christopher Anderson at Aperture to kick off our ongoing Parsons Artist Talks series. Born in Canada and raised in Texas, Anderson is known for his emotionally driven photography, which he refers to as “experiential documentary. ” Winner of the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award,  Kodak Young Photographer of the Year Award and the Picture of the Year Award, and a member of Magnum Photos, Anderson’s photography will be featured in Aperture’s upcoming publication The New York Times Magazine Photographs.

Image by Daniel Gordon

Daniel Gordon Artist Talk at Aperture

Artist Daniel Gordon will discuss his large-scale color photographs and unique process at Aperture tomorrow as part of the Parsons Lecture series. Gordon’s work was most recently featured in MoMA/PS1′s Greater NY show. The artist’s collage imagery which has been described by Conscientious blog’s Joerg Colberg as falling in the “somewhat disturbing part of the spectrum,” has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries.

Parsons Lecture Series: Daniel Gordon
6:30 PM, Tuesday, November 30th

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 West 27th Street
New York, New York

Image by Hank Willis Thomas

A Conversation with Leslie Hewitt and Hank Willis Thomas

Tomorrow evening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, artists Leslie Hewitt and Hank Willis Thomas will appear in conversation with Eva Respini, associate curator of MoMA’s photography department. This talk is the latest installment of the museum’s panel discussion series Conversations: Among Friends which brings artists, scholars and curators together in consideration of Art’s political and social contexts. Leslie Hewitt, was featured in Aperture published essay collection Words Without Pictures. Hank Willis Thomas’ monograph Pitch Blackness was released by Aperture in 2008.

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A Conversation with Leslie Hewitt and Hank Willis Thomas
November 30, 6:45 pm doors,

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

Image by Richard Misrach

Richard Misrach at SF Camerawork

Richard Misrach’s book tour for recent release and critically acclaimed publication Destroy This Memory continues tomorrow night at SF Camerawork in San Francisco. Recently called a “Masterpiece” by writer Geoff Dyer in the Financial Times, Destroy This Memory presents an affecting reminder of the physical and psychological impact of Hurricane Katrina capturing the grafitti and messages scrawled by survivor’s on walls during the Hurricane’s tragic aftermath. The talk will be followed by a book signing and artist’s reception.

Lecture and Book Signing with Richard Misrach
November 30th, 7:00 pm

SF Camerawork
657 Mission Street 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA

Photo by Michael Wolf

Aperture Foundation, The Photography Department in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School will present an exciting panel discussion Contemporary Documentary Practices as part of the Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context. This talk will take place at the New School’s Tischman Auditorium and brings together photographers LaToya Ruby Frazier, Michael Wolf, Chris Verene and moderater Susan Bright. Revisiting Martha Rosler’s In, Around and Afterthoughts (on Documentary Photography), the panel will use this seminal text published by Rosler in 1981, as a launching point from which to discuss contemporary photographic practices and art strategies. The discussion will examine the medium of photography’s ability to foster social and political engagement today.

Contemporary Documentary Practices
Wednesday, November 3,  7:00 pm

The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York, New York

Black Out Copy by Sarah Anne Johnson

Tomorrow evening photographer Sarah Anne Johnson will give an artist’s talk at Aperture bookstore and gallery as part of the Parsons lecture series. Johnson’s work integrates multiple mediums including sculptural and performance elements along with painting and printmaking to create her images. Tree Planting, a series of photographs by Johnson recently featured in Guggenheim group show, Haunted, exemplifies the artist’s multi-media approach to photography and to narrative. In sixty five images the artist depicts a summer spent planting trees in de-forrested Manitoba, a common Canadian rite of passage. Moving between photographs documenting the physical lived experience and photographed scenes of small scale models reenacting moments that happened in real life, the work builds apon and evolves the use of sets, props and theater in photography. Johnson is represented by the Julie Saul gallery in New York and Stephen Bulger gallery in Toronto.

Sarah Anne Johnson: Parsons Lecture Series
Tuesday, October 5, 6:30 pm

Aperture Bookstore and Gallery
547 West 27th street
New York, New York

Widely acclaimed artists Collier Schorr and Roe Etheridge, founders of Primary Information James Hoff and Miriam Katzeff will be featured on a panel this Wednesday to discuss and consider the future of the photograph in print, moderated by  artist, critic and founding editor of Influence Magazine, Gil blank .

The panel, entitled Open Cover Before Striking, Confounding Expectations is presented by Aperture, the photography department in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School. The question posed to the event’s participants will be: As print faces the encroachment of digital technology and the mainstreaming of online culture, what is the viability of printed and published forms of photography – monographic, serial, underground or otherwise – as a means of photographic production?

Open Cover Before Striking, Confounding Expectations Panel Discussion
Thursday, April 8, 7:00 PM

FREE

The New School
Tischman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York, New York

Thomas Demand (for Hubertus’ talk)”Busstop”, C-Print/Diasec, 240×330 cm, 2009

Aperture and the Photography Program in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design’s lecture series resumes with writer, curator and critic Hubertus von Amelunxen this Thursday, February 25th at the Aperture Gallery and Bookstore.

Hubertus von Amelunxen is the Walter Benjamin chair at The European Graduate School for New Media in Luebeck, Germany and the senior visiting curator for photography and new media at the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal. As the longtime editor of FOTOGESCHICHTE and author of numerous books on the topic of the photographic arts, Amelunxen is an influential and internationally recognized voice in his field.

The talk, entitled Photography After Photography, 15 Years Later will revisit a publication Amelunxen organized in 1995 entitled Photography After Photography: Memory and Representation in the Digital Age.

Photography After Photography, 15 Years Later
Thursday, February 25, 6:30 PM

FREE

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
(212) 505 – 5555

Aperture and the Parsons Department of Photography at The New School presented this artist talk with photographer James Welling in October of 2009. Focusing on reoccurring themes of abstraction and the paradoxical in images he has made throughout his career, Welling went into detail about the progression of his work as a photographer and some of the artists who have influenced and inspired him.

In this excerpt Welling talks about how his body of work Light Sources came to fruition, essentially through his interest in the 10th frame of rolls of film he had shot for various projects over the years. Shooting in his preferred 6×7 format, Welling found that the 10th frame would not fit on the standard contact sheet page and thus, upon reaching his 10th exposure Welling would habitually break from his subject and shoot something else. Working with a large group of these “context-less” 10th frames, Welling compiled Light Sources.

To watch the full version of this talk click on these links below:

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

James Welling is represented by David Zwirner Gallery in New York and is head of the photography department at the University of California, Los Angeles. His work was featured in issue number 190 of Aperture magazine.

The first of the Spring 2010 Parsons Lecture Series at Aperture is titled Photography After Photography, 15 Years Later with Hubertus von Amelunxen on Thursday, February 25, 6:30 pm.