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Aperture Presents: An Exclusive Conversation Between Thomas Ruff and Philip Gefter

Aperture and the photography department in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design will be presenting an exclusive conversation between artist Thomas Ruff and writer, former picture editor, and author of Photography After Frank, Philip Gefter, on Friday, February 12th, 2010.

The event will in-part celebrate Aperture’s publication of Thomas Ruff’s monograph JPEGS as well as the release of Aperture’s The Dusseldorf School of Photography, a survey of the influential photography movement that includes Ruff’s work.

The conversation will focus on Ruff’s relationship to his JPEGS series and his newest work in two series: zycles and cassini on view at David Zwirner Gallery. There will be a book signing with both speakers following the event.

Thomas Ruff and Philip Gefter in Conversation plus Book Signing
Friday, February 12, 6:30pm

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York

Due to limited capacity, this free event is RSVP-only.
Please send name to reserve at: RSVP@aperture.org

View Thomas Ruff’s JPEGS

View Philip Gefter’s Photography After Frank

Aperture and the Parsons Department of Photography at The New School present an artist’s talk with writer and critic Luc Sante. Sante will present a reading and images from his upcoming book Folk Photography: The American Real-Photo Postcard, 1905–1930, which was recently excerpted in Aperture magazine, Issue 195. Sante wants to convey something about the transmission of ideas, about the inventiveness and self-reliance required by artists working in relative isolation, about the constraints and liberties of artists who were considered artisans or even service professionals, about the uncertainty as to whether their decisions were artistic choices rather than accidental or expedient, about the incursion of modern technology into lives far from any main stream.

Luc Sante: Parsons Lecture Series
Tuesday, November 17, 7:00 pm

FREE

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

Monday night, West-Coast based photographer Katy Grannan will be speaking at Aperture Gallery in the latest edition of an ongoing lecture series from Parsons The New School for Design. Grannan works predominantly in portraiture and strives to embody the subject’s personality, usually allowing him or her choice in wardrobe and pose. The artist’s first monograph, Model American, was published by Aperture in 2005. Her work is also included in the group exhibition Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Monday, March 30, 2009
6:30 pm

FREE

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

Click here to buy your copy of Model American through Aperture.

Don’t miss your chance to see OURS: Democracy in the Age of Branding on view through February 1 at Parsons The New School for Design’s Anna-Maria and Steven Keller Gallery. This show combines works from many contemporary artists, including Branded Head, 2003 from photographer Hank Willis Thomas. This exhibition examines American ideologies through a consumer-culture lens using the U.S. military campaign in Iraq as a base. The project combines lectures, workshops, panels, and other events to add a dynamic dimension to a self-conscious look at America’s identity both within itself and abroad.

Signed copies of Hank Willis Thomas’s book, Pitch Blackness are available here through Aperture.

Click here to read ArtForum’s review of the exhibition.

OURS: Democracy in the Age of Branding
October 16, 2008-February 1, 2009
Parsons The New School for Design
Anna-Maria and Steven Keller Gallery
66 Fifth Avenue, New York
212-229-5942