Check out the latest press on Aperture’s new and upcoming releases!

Coming Soon the new edition of the Robert Adams classic, Summer Nights, Walking as featured in the September issue of Visionaire magazine.

Click here to view Lyle Rexer’s The Edge of Vision.

Click here to view Dan Winters’ Periodical Photographs.

Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, from the article The Artist Formerly Known as Fashion Photography

The Summer 2009 issue of Aperture, #195, is now on sale. Featuring a diverse and compelling array of images and writing from artists around the world, highlights include:

• The Difference A Painter Makes: Edward Hopper and Photography, notes by Jeffrey Fraenkel and Robert Adams on Hopper’s vision and its mark on photography.
• Daniel and Geo Fuchs: In the Halls of the Stasi, by Matthias Harder. A look at the now-quiet former headquarters of the East German secret police.
• Gay Men Play: Self-Representation, Sex, and Photography Now, by Chris Boot. Sexual identity explored through the medium of photography and on the Web.
• Maya Deren: A Life Choreographed for Camera, by Mark Alice Durant. Little-known photographs by the acclaimed avant-garde filmmaker.
• The Artist Formerly Known as Fashion Photography, by Jason Evans. Genre-bending photographers who are producing inventive fashion work.
• A Look at Look, by Mary Panzer. One of the twentieth century’s great picture magazines, brought back to light.
• Suyeon Yun: Homecoming. A selection from Yun’s project on American veterans of current and past wars.
• Don McCullin: Dark Landscapes, interview with Fred Ritchin. A photographer known for his unflinching visions of conflict and troubles discusses a long career.

And, coming soon to Exposures: video interviews with Don McCullin.

Click here to get a subscription and your own copy of this fabulous issue.

Colorado Springs © Robert Adams

Tomorrow morning [7:30 a.m. Central European Time (CET), corresponding to 1:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time], the Hasselblad Foundation will announce that Robert Adams is the recipient of the 2009 Hasselblad Award. Following the official announcement, they’ll be conducting a live chat with Adams at 2:30 a.m. EST. Take advantage of a rare opportunity to talk to this celebrated master photographer by entering the chat room here.

Previous Hasselblad Award winners include Graciela Iturbide, Nan Goldin, David Goldblatt, and Lee Friedlander.

Above image from The New West, photographs by Robert Adams.

Untitled Film Still #43, 1979, © Cindy Sherman

Exhibition on view:
Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West

Sunday, March 29–Monday, June 8, 2009

MoMA
Special Exhibitions Gallery, third floor
11 West 53 Street
New York, New York
(212) 708-9400

Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West is now on view at the Special Exhibitions Gallery at MoMA. The exhibition’s theme evolves around the importance of photography in shaping our collective imagination of the West.

Since 1850, photography has certainly played a fundamental role in the revolution of the American West, and has helped form and change our perception and image creation of the West’s physical and social landscape, through a variety of photographic traditions and genres.

Into the Sunset brings together over 120 photographs, dating from the ninetieth to the twenty first century, that integrate a range of different artistic strategies and motifs. The photographs, which are organized thematically, illustrate a piece of cultural heritage, and help us understand how general ideas about the West, as Manifest Destiny and the “land of opportunity,” have evolved through the years.

The exhibition features work of approximately seventy renowned photographers including Aperture-published Robert Adams, Katy Grannan, Dorothea Lange, Timothy O’Sullivan, Cindy Sherman, Joel Sternfeld, Edward Weston.

In conjunction with the exhibition, MoMA also holds lunch lectures and discussion panels on Monday, April 6 and Thurday, April 9 both at 12:30 p.m.

In addition, the museum offers a special lecture for deaf and hard-of-hearing visitors, as a part of Interpreting MoMA, on Thursday, May 14, at 5:30 p.m. 

Robert Adams/Fraenkel Gallery
Colorado Springs.

Originally published in 1974, Robert Adams’s The New West signaled a significant shift in photographic representation of the American landscape. Aperture has just reissued and released this classic and revered publication alongside Steidl’s reissue of The Americans. Both highly anticipated releases have been reviewed by TIME Magazine’s Richard Lacayo in an article titled, Two Reissued Photography Books Reconsidered in the May 26th issue. Check out Lacayo’s blog, Looking Around, where he write about books, art and architecture for TIME.