The SPE National Conference in San Francisco is officially sold out, but if you are among the early registration crowd gaining access to 2012′s programming—this year, exploring “Intimacy and Voyeurism: The Public/Private Divide in Photography—be sure to join Aperture Foundation in exhibition Booth #31 beginning this Thursday.

Keynote speaker Sally Mann, known for her evocative work with portraiture and landscapes, will give a presentation with a selected reading from her forthcoming memoir, If Memory Serves. Following the presentation, Mann will be signing copies of her books, The Flesh and the Spirit (Aperture 2010), Immediate Family (Aperture 2005), Proud Flesh (Aperture 2009) and Still Time (Aperture 2008).

Other speakers include: Sharon Olds, Trevor Paglen, Sandra S. Phillips, Hasan Elahi, Bill Adams, and many more.

The Society for Photographic Education is a nonprofit membership organization that provides a forum for the discussion of photography-related media as a means of creative expression and cultural insight. Through its interdisciplinary programs, services, and publications, the society seeks to promote a broader understanding of the medium in all its forms, and to foster the development of its practice, teaching, scholarship, and criticism.

Thursday, March 22, 2012–Saturday, March 24, 2012

Hyatt Regency
Booth #31
San Francisco, California
(415) 788-1234

Friday Hours: 9:00 am–4:00 pm
Saturday Hours: 9:30 am–4:30 pm
Exhibition Hall is FREE

Thursday, March 22, 7:00–8:30 pm
Keynote Presentation and Book Signing: Sally Mann
Grand Ballroom

Friday, March 23, 5:30–7:00 pm
Featured speaker: Trevor Paglen, author of Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes (Aperture 2010)
Grand Ballroom

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The Flesh and the Spirit (Aperture 2010), Immediate Family (Aperture 2005), Proud Flesh (Aperture 2009) and Still Time (Aperture 2008) by Sally Mann are available for purchase here. Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes (Aperture 2010) by Trevor Paglen is available for purchase here.

Opening reception:
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
6:00–8:00 pm

Exhibition on view:
Friday, March 2, 2012–Saturday, April 21, 2012

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

Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla, two individuals that Art News ranks among the top ten photo collectors in the world, have amassed hundreds of the most iconic images reflecting the diverse nature of the past century of photography. Aperture Foundation pleased to announce the opening of Shared Vision: The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography, featuring over two hundred of those photographs that form one of the world’s best private collections. An exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Jacksonville, a cultural resource of the University of North Florida, curated by Ben Thompson, MOCA’s curator, and Paul Karabinis, assistant professor of photography at UNF.

Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla’s collaboration hinges on a few underlying principles— mainly, to acquire works of major importance by leading photographers of their generation, and to focus on vintage prints. Although each of the collectors brings a different point of view to the photography—Gonzalez-Falla analyzes color and form, while Gilman responds to images on a more visceral level—these distinct approaches merge into a single, shared vision and emanate from the same goal: to collect photographs that move and inspire them.

Prominet photographers in the collection include Ansel Adams, Eugène Atget, Margaret Bourke-White,Walker Evans, Loretta Lux, Sally Mann, Richard Misrach, Doug and Mike Starn, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Alfred Stieglitz.

The exhibition, organized by MOCA, a cultural resource of the University of North Florida, curated by Ben Thompson, MOCA’s curator, and Paul Karabinis, assistant professor of photography at UNF, is supported by Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla, The Haskell Company, Marilyn and Charles Gilman III, and Joan and Preston Haskell. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog published by MOCA and produced by Aperture Foundation. This catalog features selected photographs from the exhibition, with historical context about each image and the photographer, curatorial remarks from Ben Thompson and Paul Karabinis, and an exclusive interview with the collectors.

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Ponder Heart, 2009. © Sally Mann

Proud Flesh

Exhibition on view:
September 9–October 29, 2011

Jackson Fine Art:
3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue
Atlanta, GA
(404) 233-3739

Proud Flesh is the upcoming exhibit of Sally Mann’s photography at Jackson Fine Art. Using the human body as her main subject, Mann explores familial and spousal relationships in her photography. Born in Lexington, Virginia, Mann’s work has been showcased in museums and galleries all around the world. She has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Mann has been featured in Aperture magazine issues 138, 162, and 194. Aperture also offers these books from Mann: Sally Mann: Proud Flesh, The Flesh and the Spirit, Immediate Family, and At Twelve.

Art Palm Beach Art Fair

Thursday, January 20–Monday, January 24, 2011
Booth #123
Palm Beach County Convention Center
650 Okeechobee Boulevard
West Palm Beach, Florida
(239) 495-9834

Fair Hours
January 21–23, 2011, 12:00–7:00 pm
January 24, 12:00–6:00 pm

Join Aperture at Art Palm Beach to see fabulous limited-edition books and prints by artists Jowhara AlSaud, Jen Davis, Sally Mann, Richard Misrach, Brett Weston, and many more. Art Palm Beach hosts international galleries presenting contemporary art, photography, video, installation art, public sculpture, and design.

Click here to receive a FREE multi-day pass for two

Night Operations by An my Le

Haunted, an exhibition currently on view at the Guggenheim examines contemporary photographic imagery that deals with themes of memory, trauma and a return to the past. Included in the exhibit’s diverse roster of artists are Aperture published and master photographer Sally Mann, Spencer Finch, who recently spoke at the Aperture bookstore, An my Le, whose limited edition print Night Operations is available through Aperture, Cindy Sherman, featured in Aperture magazine issue 169, Sophie Calle, featured in Aperture magazine issue 142 and issue 191, Miranda Lichtenstein and more.

Also included in the exhibition is work by artist Waled Beshty, who was recently featured in Aperture’s Words Without Pictures and The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Astraction in Photography. Beshty will give a talk about themes in his work and current issues in the art world at the Guggenhiem next Wednesday, May 26th.

Click here to purchase tickets and find out more about Walead Beshty’s talk at the Guggenheim

Haunted
Part I: March 26-September 6, 2010
Part II: June 4-September 1, 2010

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, New York

Sally Mann’s latest body of work, Proud Flesh opens Tuesday, September 15 at Gagosian Gallery in New York City coinciding with Aperture’s publication of her monograph by the same name. A deeply personal and moving project, these candid nudes of her husband, Larry Mann, explore subtle complexities between both man and woman, and artist and subject. Her unique production process gives a painterly feel to the images, which are contact prints from wet-plate collodion negatives that are produced by coating a sheet of glass with ether-based collodion and submerging in silver nitrate.  Be sure to attend the opening reception of this inspirational body of work from one of contemporary photography’s icons.

Click here to view Sally Mann: Proud Flesh available soon through Aperture.

Sally Mann: Proud Flesh
Exhibition on view:
Tuesday, September 15—Saturday, October 31, 2009
Opening Reception:
Tuesday, September 15, 2009  6:00 pm

Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Avenue
New York, New York
(212) 744-2313

Coinciding with the exhibition opening at Gagosian Gallery on September 15, Aperture will release Sally Mann’s latest monograph, Proud Flesh this fall. Her latest body of work is focused primarily on her husband and their thirty-nine year relationship, in the fashion of male artists whose female lovers serve as muses. The black-and-white photographs are psychologically intense and emotionally evocative and honest. Jörg Colberg of Concientious features some of Mann’s reflections on her work, click here to read. Aperture previously published At Twelve and Immediate Family, and is proud to present a third title from one of America’s most renowned photographers.

Now on view Cheim and Read Gallery is The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women, a group exhibition of women artists depicting the female form. Featuring artists such as Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Vanessa Beecroft, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Kathe Burkhart, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, Nan Goldin, Katy Grannan, Jenny Holzer, Sally Mann, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Shirin Neshat, Cindy Sherman, Francesca Woodman and Hellen van Meene.  Through a variety of mediums this exhibition seeks to present a collection of works which reclaim the traditional domination of the “male gaze” and reorient the significance of the female figure to allow for more varied interpretations.

The Female Gaze: Women Look At Women
Thursday, June 25—Saturday, September 19, 2009

Cheim & Read
547 West 25th Street, New York
(212) 242-7727

The work of some of the most important photographers of the twentieth century is currently on view in The Christopher Hyland Collection of Photography, By Way of These Eyes: The Sublime, Exotic and Familiar at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT  from June 6 through September 6, 2009. Tonight marks the opening reception to celebrate the show. Over the last decade, the museum has organized a distinguished series of exhibitions of contemporary photography and this show focuses on a collection of work of twentieth-century photographers amassed by the keen eye of Christopher Hyland. Hyland, founder of one of the world’s leading textile manufacturing firms and a collector since his youth, has put together a body of work informed by his exceptional eye and world travels. The well-known tastemaker and private art collector, based in Chelsea, is an avid supporter of his neighbor, Aperture Foundation. Included in the Christopher Hyland Collection, which features works by the  renowned  artists Herb Ritz,  Henri Cartier Bresson, Robert Maplethorpe, Vik Muniz , Sally Mann, Edward Weston, and Edward Steichen, are works purchased from the Aperture Limited-Edition Photographs program: highlights include Christine, 2003 by Richard Renaldi ; Eva Le Porge, Jock Sturges; Michael Wolf’s tc39 and tc88;  The Edge of Vision Portfolio featuring the work of Bill Armstrong, Richard Caldicott, Manuel Geerinck, Mikko Sinervo, and Nicki Stager; portfolios by Paul Strand and single works by Brett Weston, among others. Exciting programming is scheduled as an accompaniment to the exhibition, with lectures centered on many of the artists Aperture has published through the years: Diane Arbus, Edward Weston, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz. and Sally Mann.  Also of note is the August 13 Art Happy Hour, titled the “The F stops here,” feature Ellen Carey and Bill Armstrong, included in the just published The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography. The New Britain Museum of American Art is a great destination for the photography enthusiast this summer!

The Christopher Hyland Collection of Photography, By Way of These Eyes: The Sublime, Exotic and Familiar
Saturday, June 6—Sunday, September 6, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, June 12, 2009 5:00—7:00 pm
New Britain Museum of American Art
56 Lexington Street
New Britain, CT
(860) 229-0257

Aperture magazine is a finalist for a National Magazine Award in General Excellence (under 100,000 circulation), the magazine industry’s highest honor.  The awards recognize print and online magazines that consistently demonstrate superior execution of editorial objectives, innovative editorial techniques, journalistic enterprise, and imaginative design. Winners will be announced April 30. See the complete list of finalists here.

In addition, the latest issue of Aperture magazine is now available and features:

•    Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape
Photojournalist Jonathan Torgovnik provides and intimate look at the tragic legacy of Rwandan women who were sexually tortured by militiamen during and after the 1994 genocide, and their inheritors: children born of rape. An exhibition of this dramatic work is on view at Aperture Gallery through May 7th.
•    Sally Mann: Untitled
A selection from Mann’s latest family-focused project: intimate photographs of her husband Larry.
•    Jiang Jian: Memory and History by Vicky Goldberg
Photographer Jiang documents life in his native rural China.
Click here to see an expanded interview and additional images from the artist.
•    Photography and Human Rights by Anthony Downey
Downey discusses photographs that explore the stateless condition of the dispossessed and the plight of refugees.
•    Pertti Kekarainen: The Sensation of Seeing by Lyle Rexer
A look at the Finnish photographer’s abstract photography.
•    Look Close: The Scrapbooks of Dan Eldon and Candy Jernigan
Jessica Helfand explores the inventive journals of two artists who died tragically young.
•    William van der Weyde and the American Morality Plan by Michael Lesy
An introduction to the curious work of this little-known early-twentieth-century photographer.
•   Lise Sarfati: She
Sandra S. Philips presents a selection from Sarfati’s latest body of work, focused on the complex relationships of four women.