Aperture overhauls magazine with new features in a larger format.
The new issue includes a great conversation between Jeff Wall and Lucas Blablock; Jason Fulford giving an account of his move to San Fransisco; a new essay from Charlotte Cotton; plus many other great articles not to be missed.
(via Aperture Magazine - Aperture Foundation NY)
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In conversation: Merry Foresta, Wendy Ewald, Marvin Heiferman, and Carol Squiers
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery and Bookstore547 West 27th StreetNew York, NY
FREE
Join Marvin Heiferman, leading photography curator and editor of Photography Changes Everything, for a conversation with photographer Wendy Ewald, Merry Foresta, former Director of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, and Carol Squiers, Curator at the International Museum of Photography. They will explore photography’s central role is shaping our public and private, rational and fantasy lives. A book signing will follow the discussion.
Petrochemical America
Photographs by Richard Misrach
Ecological Atlas by Kate Orff
13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches
240 pages (plus 24-page insert), 150 four-color images
Hardcover
978-1-59711-191-1
Spring 2012
Designed by Bob Aufuldish, Aufuldish & Warinner
Publisher’s Description:
Petrochemical America features Richard Misrach’s haunting photographic record of Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor, accompanied by landscape architect Kate Orff’s Ecological Atlas—a series of “throughlines,” speculative drawings developed through research and mapping of data from the region. Their joint effort depicts and unpacks the complex cultural, physical, and economic ecologies along 150 miles of the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, an area of intense chemical production that first garnered public attention as “Cancer Alley” when unusual occurrences of cancer were discovered in the region.
This collaboration has resulted in an unprecedented, multilayered document presenting a unique narrative of visual information. Petrochemical America offers in-depth analysis of the causes of decades of environmental abuse along the largest river system in North America. Even more critically, the project offers an extensively researched guidebook to the way in which the petrochemical industry has permeated every facet of contemporary life. What is revealed over the course of the book is that Cancer Alley—although complicated by its own regional histories and particularities—may well be an apt metaphor for the global impact of petrochemicals on the human landscape as a whole.
(via Aperture Foundation :: Petrochemical America)
Tags | aperture | richard misrach | 2012 | photobook |
“Aperture is pleased to present the digital edition of The PhotoBook Review Issue 002. This issue’s guest editor,Marcus Schaden, introduces The Dummy Shop; Gerry Badgerand Tate Shaw on sequencing photographs; plus the usual profiles and book reviews of the good, the bad, and the beautiful:Ivan Vartanian on Katsumi Omori; Susan Bright on the POV Female series; Joachim Brohm on Michael Schmidt; James Crump on Ryan McGinley, and many more.”
Publisher’s Description:
The PhotoBook Review is a publication dedicated to the consideration of the photobook—focusing on the best photography books being published, from the coffee-table book to the handmade artist’s edition, and on creating a better understanding of the ecosystem of the photobook as a whole.
(via The PhotoBook Review Magazine Subscription, 1 Digital Issue | Zinio - The World’s Largest Newsstand)
Tags | aperture | photobook | photobook review | zine | ezine | 2012 |
PRINTING SHOW is a recreation of Daido Moriyama’s 1974 performance of the same name. Following the format of the original performance as closely as possible, in lieu of prints mounted on the gallery walls, visitors to the gallery will find the photographer stationed at a photocopy machine duplicating his photographic prints. As was done forty years ago, these photocopied sheets will be assembled and staple-bound with a silk-screened cover printed in the gallery space during the performance.
In 1974, the ad hoc photobook that resulted from this process, Another Country—New York, featured images from a trip Moriyama had made to New York in 1971. The photobook, which was produced as ephemera for the performance, has since become a rare collector’s item. In the 2011 recreation, the work featured will include a selection of images made in Tokyo over the last fifteen years.
Visitors to the gallery will be active collaborators in the photobook-making process. In 1974, the photographer sequenced and collated the photocopied sheets, leaving the choice of silkscreen cover to the visitor. In 2011, the visitor will select, edit, and sequence the sheets of the ad hoc photobook, titled TKY. Visitors will choose from a menu of fifty-four double-sided photocopied sheets that will be on view in the gallery space. Visitors will also make a choice of cover. All copies made during the performance interval will be signed by the photographer.
PRINTING SHOW—TKY embodies and addresses fundamental issues impacting the landscape of photobook publishing, as well as the communication of ideas in a post-digital era.
(via Aperture Foundation | Aperture Gallery | PRINTING SHOW—TKY)
Tags | Aperture | exhibition | photobook |
Aperture Foundation | The Flesh and The Spirit - Sally Mann
Sally Mann (photographs)
John Ravenal (author)
David Levi Strauss (essay)
Anne Wilkes Tucker (essay)
Clothbound with jacket
11 1/2” x 9”
200 pages
1 six-page gatefold, 225 four-color images
Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit is the artist’s first thematic survey focusing on her thirty-year exploration of the human form, tackling often difficult subject matter and making unapologetically sensual images that are simultaneously bold and lyrical. In collaboration with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and accompanying its landmark exhibition opening November 13, 2010, Aperture is pleased to publish the first in-depth look at this world-renowned artist’s approach to the body.
This beautifully produced publication includes Mann’s earliest platinum prints from the late 1970s, Polaroid still lifes, early color work of her children, haunting landscape images, recent self-portraits, and nude studies of her husband. The series document Mann’s interest in the body as principal subject, with the associated issues of vulnerability and mortality lending an elegiac note to her images.
In bringing them together, author and curator John Ravenal examines the varied ways in which Mann’s experimental approach, including ambrotypes and gelatin-silver prints made from collodian wet-plate negatives, moves her subjects from the corporeal to the ethereal.
- I am so excited that I get to see this show at the VMFA when I go home this Christmas.
Tags | Sally Mann | The Flesh the Spirit | Aperture | 2010 | photobook | catalogue |
Aperture Foundation | Kodachromes- William Christenberry
Hardcover with jacket
11 2/5” x 9 2/5”
176 pages
115 four-color image
Publishers Description:
William Christenberry: Kodachromes is the first publication to showcase the artist’s stunning and previously unknown body of work produced with 35 mm Kodachrome slide film. Spanning from 1964 to 2007, only a small number of the images have ever been published or exhibited. As in all of Christenberry’s photographs, the subject matter is the rural Deep South: the twisting back roads, open landscapes, rusted signage, and ramshackle vernacular architecture found in Hale County, Alabama where the artist was born and raised. Though many of the sites pictured in this rare collection are new, other subjects grew iconic in Christenberry’s oeuvre as he has returned to photograph them for decades—the red building in the forest, Sprott Church, the Palmist Sign, and the Bar-B-Q Inn, among others. However, the photographs in William Christenberry: Kodachromes, made with a camera that allowed for greater mobility, reveal new ways of considering Christenberry’s perennial subjects and offer further insight into the working method of this venerable artist. With the recent discontinuation of Kodachrome film by Kodak, the work in this beautiful volume is rendered even more meaningful.
Tags | William Christenberry | Kodachromes | photobook | 2010 | aperture |
Aperture Foundation | Aperture 200
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Aperture Foundation | Events | Richard Misrach: After Katrina
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Aperture Foundation | Words Without Pictures - new - books
Going to pre-order a copy of this : )
Tags | Words Without Pictures | aperture | criticism | theory | book | critical theory |I got this zine/catalog in Livingston Montana of all places. It was a very good find considering I almost walked past the store that was selling it. Its a publication which coincides with an exhibition “Other Scenes” at the Robert and Tilton gallery in L.A in 2007. It was published by Nieves books and supportd by the ANP and RVCA. I just went to the Nieves website and loved their selection of catalogs, magazines, and zines. A really great company that all modern book lovers should be aware of. What really caught my attention was that it had Ryan McGinley’s work in it. He just released a new book titled Moonshine through Morel Publishing, which is a series of photographs taken this summer, following him and his models exploring caves and caverns. I love his use of colour in the series.
He has some very notable images especially the one of the girl used on the cover of “Photography After Frank” by Phillip Gefter.
