© Diane Arbus

After the overwhelming response to the previous screening, Aperture and the School of Visual Arts present: A Slide Show and Talk by Diane Arbus [1970] and a screening of Who is Marvin Israel? [2005]. Read the article by Hilton Als titled Arbus Speaks from The New Yorker’s Book Bench column.

Who is Marvin Israel? [2005] is a short documentary on the life and work of the enigmatic Marvin Israel (1924–1984), artist, designer, art director, and teacher. Israel’s influence on Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, and Lee Friedlander, among others, is explored in the words of those who knew him. Directed by Neil Selkirk.

The Slide Show and Talk by Diane Arbus is an original audio recording of a 1970 slide presentation by Diane Arbus in which she speaks about photography using her own work and other photographs, snapshots and clippings from her collection. Compiled and edited by Neil Selkirk, Doon Arbus, and Adam Shott.

This program coincides with the release of Diane Arbus: A Chronology and newly reissued Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph and Untitled: Diane Arbus on the fortieth anniversary of the original publication.

Thursday, November 15, 2011
Doors at 7:00 pm, Screening at 7:30 pm
First come; first serve.

This event is free and open to the public. Guests are encouraged to arrive early to the screening- there are limited seats available.

SVA Theatre
333 23rd Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)
New York, New York

from Lament of Images, 2002. © Alfredo Jaar

Being American

Exhibition on view:
November 22–December 21, 2011

Visual Arts Gallery:
601 West 26 Street, 15th floor
New York, NY
(212) 592-2145

School of Visual Arts presents Being American, a visual arts exhibition surveying a variety of cultural issues in America. Ranging from such current issues as the War on Terror to gay marriage, Being American features visual stories from 20 artists including Alfredo Jaar and Aperture contributing editor David Levi Strauss both who were featured in Aperture’s current Fall issue 204. The exhibit will feature work from their Lament of Images project which examines the role of photography in documenting violence.

Unseen in The Unseen Eye
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
7:00 pm

School of Visual Arts
SVA Theatre
333 West 23 Street
New York, NY
(212) 592-2980

FREE

Join author, curator, and SVA faculty member Susan Bright, as she interviews fellow faculty member, author, and collector Bill Hunt about his new book. Published by Aperture, Hunt’s The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious features images from a multitude of photographers, all capturing subjects averting their eyes from the camera. Susan Bright also edited the Aperture anthologies Art Photography Now and Face of Fashion.

Mermaid swimming away, Weeki Wachee, 2003. © Lisa Kereszi

The Role of Women in Photography: Are We There Yet?
Thursday, September 22, 2011
6:30 pm

School of Visual Arts
209 East 23 Street
3rd floor amphitheater
New York, NY

Free with a valid college ID, $10 for general public

Elisabeth Biondi, former visuals editor at The New Yorker and currently an independent curator, will be moderating a discussion panel on the current role of women in photography at SVA. The panel includes photography critic and Aperture magazine contributing editor Vince Aletti, Aperture contributing writer Lyle Rexer (whose book The Edge of Vision was published by Aperture), as well as photographers Martine Fougeron, Lisa Kereszi, and Sarah Silver. The event is being presented by SVA’s MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Department, in partnership with Professional Women Photographers.

Please join Aperture for some of our exciting upcoming events:

Copyright Barbara Probst

On Tuesday, March 23rd Aperture and the Photography Program in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design will present an artist talk with Photographer Barbara Probst.

Probst is an internationally celebrated artist who lives and works in both Munich and New York and has exhibited at galleries and museums both in America and Europe. Her work examines the multiple simultaneous narratives of a single moment of exposure, triggering the shutter release of several cameras pointed at different perspectives on one scene with the use of a radio-controlled release system.

Artist Lecture with Barbara Probst
Tuesday, March 23, 6:30 pm

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

Additionally this coming Thursday at the SVA theater a screening  of Alfredo Jaar’s film “The Ashes of Pasolini” will be followed by a conversation, presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department at SVA in partnership with Aperture, between Alfredo Jaar and filmmaker, poet and critic David Levi Strauss.

Alfredo Jaar is an architect, artist and filmmaker who lives and works in New York City. He has created more than fifty “public interventions” around the world, and more than forty monographs have been published about his work. David Levi Strauss is the chair of the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department at SVA.

The Ashes of Pasolini Screening and Conversation with Alfredo Jaar and David Levi Strauss
Thursday, MArch 25th, 7:00 pm

School of the Visual Arts
333 West 23rd Street
New York, New York

Next week Sarah Pickering and Susan Bright will be in conversation at Aperture on the occassion of Pickerings first monograph Explosions, Fires and Public Order (Aperture, April 2010).

Join photographers Tim Davis, Tim Hetherington and An-my Lê for a discussion on contemporary war photography. Tim Davis, known for his monograph My Life in Politics, calls himself a photographer who sees “unintended derangements of objects in offices, hospitals, strip malls and the political sphere.” An-my Lê approaches from the unique standpoint of a Vietnam War refuge, and for her work Small Wars she photographed Vietnam War reenactors in North Carolina. This panel, Social Change, Conflict and a New Photographic Paradigm, moderated by Richard B. Woodward is organized in conjunction with Visions of War: The Arts Represent Conflict and is presented by the BFA Photography and Humanities & Sciences Departments at SVA.

Tim Davis, Tim Hetherington and An-my Lê with Richard B. Woodward
Social Change, Conflict and a New Photographic Paradigm
Friday, October 23, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
New York City