Tonight: Artist Talk with Sarah Pickering and Book Signing

In Conversation: Susan Bright and Sarah Pickering
Talk and Book Signing

Wednesday, March 31, 2010
6:30 pm

FREE

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

Join independent writer, lecturer, and curator Susan Bright, and photographer Sarah Pickering in conversation on the occasion of the publication of Pickering's first monograph: Explosions, Fires and Public Order (Aperture, April 2010). A book signing will follow the conversation.

Barbara Crane: Private Views on view thru 1/21

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Barbara Crane: Private Views
Aperture Gallery, Thru January 21, 2010

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

Tomorrow: Lorna Simpson @ Aperture

(via Exposures)

Join Aperture and the Parsons Department of Photography for an artist’s talk with Lorna Simpson at Aperture Gallery. Simpson is known for her use of the image of the African-American woman to examine the ways in which gender and culture shape the interactions, relationships, and experiences of our lives in contemporary, multi-racial America. Recently, she has turned her attention to moving images; in film and video works such as Call Waiting, Simpson presents individuals engaged in intimate and enigmatic elliptical conversations that elude easy interpretation while addressing the mysteries of both identity and desire. Her newest works include figurative drawings of characters from her video works and a collection of drawings of women’s heads, turned in profile to reveal their various hairstyles. Simpson is currently creating installations involving found vintage photographs accompanied by her own drawings and new photography.

Artist’s Talk with Lorna Simpson
Tuesday, October 27, 7:00 pm

FREE

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

Opening Tonight: Eye On The Strand --Manjari Sharma & More

APERTURE FOUNDATION, PRATT, AND THE STRAND BOOK STORE ANNOUNCE WINNERS OF THE
STRAND’S FIRST EVER PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST EYE ON THE STRAND

WHEN AND WHERE:

Wednesday, July 15
Opening Reception with the Winners and Finalists
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Pratt Institute CCPS Gallery
144 West 14th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY
212-647-7199

Aperture, Pratt, and the Strand Book Store are pleased to announce the winners of the Eye on the Strand photography contest, which kicked off last fall and concluded March 31, 2009. The winners were chosen by a prestigious panel of judges from over 500 submissions featuring unique and creative photo representations of the Strand Book Store. The Grand Prize Winner will get to have lunch at New York City’s famous Balthazar Restaurant with world-renowned photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and receive a collection of Aperture books, among other prizes.

The work of the grand prize, second and third place winners and twenty finalists will be featured in a special exhibition to open at the Pratt Institute CCPS Gallery on July 16, 2009. An opening reception will take place Wednesday, July 15 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. To read about contest details, including prizes awarded, and to view the winning images, please visit The Strand’s online photography gallery at www.eyeonthestrand.com.

Grand Prize Photo Winner: Josh Robinson/“Strand Shadows”
A native of St. Louis, Mo., Josh is currently a graduate student in NYU’s Graphic Communications Management and Technology program. Previously, he was a two-time Emmy Award winning television news producer, and most recently a features producer for AOL. He lives in Manhattan with his wife Claire.

Second Place Photo: Cary Conover/“Upside Down”
A freelance photographer based in New York City, Cary is a regular contributor to The Village Voice and The New York Times, among other publications. Cary’s black and white documentary street photography celebrates New York City. A native of Wichita, Kansas, Cary lives on the Lower East Side with his wife, Yvonne.

Third Place Photo and Viewers’ Choice Winner: Manjari Sharma/”Strand, The dreamer’s land”
A native of Mumbai, India, Manjari graduated from the Columbus College of Art and Design in 2004, and is currently a freelance photographer living in New York City. In India, she photographed for The Times Of India and Better Photograph. In the U.S., her clients include AOL, American baby and Penguin Books. Manjari received eight honorable mentions in the IPA Lucie Awards 2008.

Reminder: THIRD ANNUAL APERTURE PORTFOLIO PRIZE

THIRD ANNUAL APERTURE PORTFOLIO PRIZE COMPETITION
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES JULY 16, 2009
ONLY NINE DAYS LEFT! SUBMIT YOUR WORK TODAY!


New York, NY – July 7, 2009 – Aperture Foundation is currently accepting entries to the third annual Aperture Portfolio Prize competition, the best way for photographers around the world to get their work seen by Aperture’s editorial staff. Submissions will be accepted through July 16, 2009. The first prize is $2,500. The first prize winner and five runners-up will have their work showcased in a special section of the Aperture website for one year. The work needs to be recent (created in the last five years), there is a $25 entry fee, and applicants must be Aperture magazine subscribers (discount available). Complete information can be found at: www.aperture.org.

Aperture Portfolio Prize Call for Entries

(via Exposures - the Aperture blog)

A reminder to all photographers—The Aperture Portfolio Prize is accepting submissions until Thursday, July 16, 2009! This international competition is focused on discovering fresh contemporary artists and bringing them to a wider audience. First prize receives $2,500 and will be featured in Aperture Foundation’s website and e-newsletter. Runners-up will also be promoted and featured on aperture.org. Don’t miss your chance to submit!

Click here to view the official guidelines and FAQs.

Click here to view past winners of the Aperture Portfolio Prize.

Aperture Party & Fundraiser

Aperture Summer Party - June 18 - with THE WILLOWZ

APERTURE SUMMER PARTY
SOME LIKE IT HOT!

http://www.aperture.org/somelikeithot/

APERTURE’S FIRST SUMMER PARTY
THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 8:00-11:00 PM

COCKTAILS AND FESTIVITIES, PLUS:
An exclusive limited-edition print by Thomas Allen, commissioned byAperture!
A raffle of choice items, including a commissioned portrait by MatthewPillsbury!
Live music by Garage-Rock Band the Willowz!
CO-CHAIRED BY: Michael Foley, Michael Hoeh, Cathy Kaplan, Severn Taylor


Please join Aperture for the foundation’s first summer party celebrating
great photography and music at Aperture’s fabulous gallery space in the
heart of Chelsea’s art district. The backdrop for the party is the
spectacular Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography
exhibition, curated by Lyle Rexer.

http://www.aperture.org/edgeofvision

Tickets are $150 for a single, and $250 for a double. All ticket holders
(single and dual) will receive an exclusive limited edition print by Thomas
Allen (pictured above) created specially for the event. Guests will mingle
with Aperture artists, enjoy cocktails and canapés, have the chance to win
spectacular raffle items, including a commissioned portrait by Matthew
Pillsbury, and hear the live music from the Willowz "One of America's most promising young bands."-The Village Voice.

http://thewillowz.com

Some Like It Hot is co-chaired by Michael Foley, Aperture patron and
collector Michael Hoeh and Aperture board members Cathy Kaplan, and Severn Taylor.

All proceeds from the party will go towards Aperture’s publications, exhibitions, and public programs.

WHEN AND WHERE:

THURSDAY, June 18, 2009
8:00 pm

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10001

(212) 505-5555

Subway: C, E to 23rd Street and 8th Avenue or 1 to 28th Street and 7th
Avenue

Tomorrow: Jacqueline Hassink Talk and Book Signing at Aperture

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Car Girls, Jacqueline Hassink
Artist's Talk and Book Signing

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
6:30 pm

FREE

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

Join Dutch artist Jacqueline Hassink as she discusses her latest book, Car Girls (Aperture, April 2009), in the context of her other critically acclaimed books and exhibitions that deal conceptually with issues of power and social relations. Car Girls is a body of work that Hassink created over five years, photographing "car girls" during major car shows in seven different cities on three continents. As she describes it, Hassink uses these sites to reflect on "differing cultural values with regard to their ideal images of beauty and women. The series captures the moments during the women's performances when they become more like dolls or tools than individuals."

Tomorrow: Katy Grannan Lecture at Parsons

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Katy Grannan
Parsons Lecture

Monday, March 30, 2009
6:30 pm

FREE

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

Aperture and Parsons The New School for Design present Katy Grannan in the third lecture of an ongoing series. Born in Arlington, Massachusetts, in 1969, Grannan currently lives and works near San Francisco. Her work will be included in a March 2009 group exhibition Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her photographs have been exhibited at the Photographer's Gallery, London; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain; the Whitney Museum of American Art's 2004 Biennial, New York; and the 2004 Arles Photo Festival, France. Grannan was the recipiant of a 1999 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant; the 2000 PASS Award, with Margaret Talbot, for her photographs accompanying Talbot's New York Times Magazine story "What's Become of the Juvenile Delinquent?"; the 2004 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers; and the 2005 Aperture Award for an Emerging Artist. Her first monograph, Model American: Katy Grannan, was released by Aperture in 2005, and her second, The Westerns (Fraenkel Gallery/Greenberg Van Doren Gallery/Salon 94 Freemans), debuted in January 2008.

Tomorow: Michal Chelbin @ the New York Public Library

Tuesday, March 24, 6:30 pm

As part of the Photographer @ the Library lecture series, Aperture and the New York Public Library are pleased to announce a special talk and book signing with acclaimed Israeli artist Michal Chelbin who will discuss the work from her first monograph. Strangely Familiar: Acrobats, Athletes, and Other Traveling Troupes (Aperture, 2008) features richly detailed, internally charged portraits of small town performers in circuses and other traveling troupes taken over a period of six years in the Ukraine, Russia, Israel and England. Chelbin’s most frequent subjects are children and adolescents, yet her work encompasses a mix of generations. Often captured in performance costumes, Chelbin’s palette is intense, with a distinctive use of saturated pinks, blues, and greens. Her black-and-white images, which are intermingled throughout the book, have an almost Pictorialist richness. Though her influences are evident—most notably August Sander and Diane Arbus—the photographs in Strangely Familiar have a unique visual and emotional impact.

Michal Chelbin (born in Haifa, Israel, 1974) has lived in Brooklyn since 2006. Her work has appeared in several solo shows and more recently at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel and at the Andrea Meislin Gallery in New York; the latter also represents her.

WHERE
New York Public Library
Mid-Manhattan Branch
455 Fifth Avenue
(between 39th and 40th street)
New York, New York
(212) 340-0849

Neeta Madahar & Christopher Russell @ Julie Saul

Neeta Madahar and Christopher Russell
January 8-February 28, 2009
Julie Saul Gallery
535 W 22nd Street, New York
212-627-2410

Also available via Aperture is a limited edition print from Neeta Madhar's Sustenace series. Find out more via the Aperture blog: www.aperture.org/exposures/.

Susan Meiselas @ Aperture

And icon Susan Meiselas:

Free Videos by Ustream.TV/courtesy Aperture

Women in Photography @ Aperture

And in case you missed this panel discussion:

Live video chat by Ustream/courtesy Aperture

Deborah Willis in Conversation with Hank Willis Thomas at Aperture

In case you missed Deborah Willis & Hank Willis Thomas' lecture at Aperture, you can catch it here:

courtesy Aperture, Free Live Streaming Ustream

Hank Willis Thomas and Deborah Willis Conversation Tonight

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Hank Willis Thomas and Deborah Willis
Conversation

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
6:30 p.m.

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

Join us for an intimate conversation between mother and son about their work, influences, and collaborations. Hank Willis Thomas is one of today's most compelling emerging artists. His first monograph, Pitch Blackness (Aperture), raises complex questions about identity, race, violence, and commodification in contemporary life. Deborah Willis is a photographer, educator, author, and curator. She is currently chair and professor of photography and imaging at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz- Artists’ Talk and Book Signing Tonight

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Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz
Artists’ Talk and Book Signing

Exhibition on view:
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
6:30 p.m.

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

Within the simple constraints of a glass globe, the captivating images in Travelers (Aperture) conjure up entire sequences of imaginary worlds and events. Coinciding with the publication of the artists’ first monograph, Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz will discuss their collaborative process of creating mesmerizing miniature snowbound environments, then recording them in chilly color photographs. At first glance playful, closer observation of the work reveals darker narratives rife with anxiety and uncertainty.

Opening tonight: Catherine Leutenegger: Hors-Champ (Off-Camera)

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Catherine Leutenegger: Hors-Champ (Off-Camera)
Opening Reception and Exhibition

Opening Reception:
Monday, October 27, 7:00–9:00 p.m.

Exhibition on view:
Monday, October 27, 2008 — Monday, November 03, 2008

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

Aperture Foundation is pleased to partner with Raymond Weil to highlight the winner of the Raymond Weil Club 2007 International Photography Prize, Catherine Leutenegger. Ms. Leutenegger's work will be on display for a special one-week exhibition in Aperture Foundation's bookstore and board annex concurrent with Aperture Gallery's show, Invasion 68 Prague, photographs by Josef Koudelka. Hors-Champ (Off-Camera) is an invitation to discover a place that often remains unknown: where photographs are made—workshops and studios, darkrooms, and labs for developing and printing. The work behind the illusion, so meticulously crafted by photographers in their studios, is indeed rarely revealed. The realization of this project arises from a personal desire to explore, behind the scenes, the world of photography professionals at a point in time when the medium is undergoing deep technological and aesthetic changes. In this digitalized age, what really occurs behind the scenes? What will become of studios and traditional photo labs? Hors-Champ is an homage to photography, its history, and to the creators of images, and encourages the viewer to reflect on the future of this medium of communication.

Reminder: Photography©®™-Panel Discussion Tonight

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Photography©®™
Panel Discussion

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
7:00 p.m.

The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York, New York
(212) 229-5353

Learn what every photographer working today needs to know about essential issues of photography and copyright in a digital age. Panelists to include Nancy E. Wolff, lawyer and partner at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard, who specializes in intellectual property and digital media law; Chair of Photography at Parsons The New School for Design, Michelle Bogre; and others to be announced.

This event is part of the series Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context in collaboration with Vera List Center for Art and Politics and Parsons the New School for Design.

Aperture Live

There's a great new addition to the Aperture website called Aperture Live, a webcast of live lectures and talks. So now you don't have to feel so guilty for not trekking to Chelsea after a hard day's work or feel like you're right in the heart of New York art life.

The two lectures up now are up right now:
Women in Photography Panel with Cara Phillips, Amy Elkins, Elinor Carucci, and Robin Schwartz

Jessica Todd Harper: speaking about her new monograph, Interior Exposure

Upcoming: Photography©®™ Panel Discussion

(via www.aperture.org)

Photography©®™
Panel Discussion

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
7:00 p.m.

The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York, New York
(212) 229-5353

Learn what every photographer working today needs to know about essential issues of photography and copyright in a digital age. Panelists to include Nancy E. Wolff, lawyer and partner at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard, who specializes in intellectual property and digital media law; Chair of Photography at Parsons The New School for Design, Michelle Bogre; and others to be announced.

This event is part of the series Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context in collaboration with Vera List Center for Art and Politics and Parsons the New School for Design.