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October 24, 2012
Diane Arbus – Guggenheim Grants exhibition at KMR Arts Gallery
A new photography exhibition, Diane Arbus: Guggenheim Grants, 1963–1967, will be on view at KMR Arts Gallery from October 26 through December 29, 2012.
This show of vintage prints by the influential photographer focuses on the critical turning point within Diane Arbus’s body of work as she applied for and was awarded two Guggenheim grants. Arbus received these grants at a time when her style was maturing and they provided Arbus complete artistic and financial freedom to explore her interest in “American Rites, Manners, and Customs,” and the intense, provocative images and subjects that would occupy her for much of her career.
Diane Arbus: Guggenheim Grants, 1963–1967
October 26–December 29, 2012
KMR Arts Gallery
Washington Depot, Connecticut
Diane Arbus: A ChronologyPrice: $29.95 
Diane Arbus: An Aperture MonographPrice: $39.95
“Diane Arbus: Guggenheim Grants”
KMR Arts Gallery announces the opening of its latest show, Diane Arbus: Guggenheim Grants, 1963–1967, on view October 26 through December 29, 2012.
This show of vintage prints by the influential photographer focuses on the critical turning point within Diane Arbus’s body of work as she applied for and was awarded two Guggenheim grants. Arbus received these grants at a time when her style was maturing and they provided Arbus complete artistic and financial freedom to explore her interest in “American Rites, Manners, and Customs,” and the intense, provocative images and subjects that would occupy her for much of her career.
Diane Arbus: Guggenheim Grants, 1963–1967
October 26–December 29, 2012
KMR Arts Gallery
Washington Depot, Connecticut
Diane Arbus: A ChronologyPrice: $29.95 Diane Arbus: An Aperture MonographPrice: $39.95
October 23, 2012
Photography Reading Shortlist – 10.23.12
›› London’s Tate Modern Museum opens Moriyama + Klein, the first exhibition to look at the relationships between Daido Moriyama and William Klein—two photographers whose gritty, urgent contributions to street photography are inextricably linked. Time magazine’s LightBox has launched William Klein + Diado Moriyama: Double Feature, a duo of video profiles on Klein and Moriyama, shot in and around the studios of the men themselves, as The Guardian and Telegraph (which also offers a review and conversation with Moriyama) take a look at William Klein and Daido Moriyama: in pictures.
“If Eggleston is the 1970s TV sitcom with toilets tucked safely out of view, American Surfaces is Big Brother, the uncut version. This is what democracy looks like.”
›› Extremes of the banal and the sublime in the American landscape were under investigation in a post by Blake Andrews—who takes a closer look at the filthy photographs of Stephen Shore—and in Flak Photo’s Looking at the Land, a web-based exhibition looking at current ideas about photographing landscape and the tradition of picturing place.
›› The New Photography 2012 exhibition is on at MoMA, featuring the work of Michele Abeles, Anne Collier, Zoe Crosher (whose The Disappearance of Michelle DuBois Volume 4 has just been released), Shirana Shahbazi, and the collective Birdhead (Ji Weiyu and Song Tao), artists who, in MoMA’s words, “speak to the diverse permutations of photography in an era when the definition of the medium is continually changing.” LightBox and Photo Booth posted slideshow previews of the work in the show.
“It’s easy to forget now, but instant camera maker Polaroid once matched the mythos — and ubiquity — of Apple”
›› New York Magazine senior editor Christopher Bonanos maps the rise and near-collapse of Polaroid in a new book, offering up a concise cultural history of the brand and its visionary leader. Wired catches up with the Instant writer for “Why Polaroid Was the Apple of Its Time,” which inevitably addresses why it was the Instagram of its time as well. Also inspired by Instant: The Story of Polaroid, The Atlantic launches the headline “Before Sexting, There Was Polaroid”, a prelude to an excerpt from the book addressing privacy and intimacy in the age of instant film.
›› Books were celebrated and considered at the New York Art Book Fair late last month, in a Photo Booth slideshow of “Books as Muses,” and in the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards shortlist, which will be narrowed down to winners in the First PhotoBook and PhotoBook of the Year categories and announced at Paris Photo on November 14. On the subject of photobooks, this clip of Life’s the Beach photographer Martin Parr introducing his latest limited-edition monograph has “viral” written all over it, no?
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Image: Print from The Disappearance of Michelle DuBois Volume 4, Zoe Crosher
October 19, 2012
Barney Kulok and Joel Smith: Artist Talk
Join photographer Barney Kulok and Joel Smith, curator of photography at the Morgan Library & Museum, for a conversation about photography’s interactions with the world of architecture, as well as Kulok’s experience photographing the construction of Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island—the subject of his new book Building: Louis I. Kahn at Roosevelt Island ($75.00 via Aperture). The conversation will be followed by a book signing.
This event is presented in association with Archtober, Architecture and Design Month New York City.
In Conversation: Barney Kulok and Joel Smith
Rescheduled Time and Date: TBA
Aperture Gallery
New York
Image: Barney Kulok, Untitled (Cobble Constellation), 2011
Building:Price: $75.00
Artist Talk: Barney Kulok and Joel Smith
Join photographer Barney Kulok and Joel Smith, curator of photography at the Morgan Library & Museum, for a conversation about photography’s interactions with the world of architecture, as well as Kulok’s experience photographing the construction of Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island—the subject of his new book Building: Louis I. Kahn at Roosevelt Island ($75.00 via Aperture). The conversation will be followed by a book signing.
This event is presented in association with Archtober, Architecture and Design Month New York City.
In Conversation: Barney Kulok and Joel Smith
Tuesday, October 30, 6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery
New York
Image: Barney Kulok, Untitled (Cobble Constellation), 2011Building:Price: $75.00
NYC Street Photography: Open Call
Matt Stuart, Policeman of 5th Avenue, New York City, USA, 2008
Matt Bialer, Untitled, 2004
Harvey Stein, Youth in Front of Harlem Church, 2012
An Rong-Xu, Pell Street After A Rain Shower
Through October 22, 2012, South Street Seaport Museum invites submissions of new works in the field of New York street photography for a juried exhibition to open in the late fall of 2012. The exhibition seeks to showcase the best of contemporary photography capturing life as it unfolds in New York’s public places—its streets, parks, and plazas.
New York City has a rich tradition of street photography. Such notable imagemakers as Jacob Riis, Robert Frank, and Nan Goldin have captured the diversity and vitality of the city’s streets and its denizens for well over a century. These artists recorded fleeting moments, capturing the faces and lives of ordinary people as they move through an ever-changing metropolis.
The Museum of the City of New York (which operates the South Street Seaport Museum) is currently presenting some of the best of these historic images in City Scenes: Highlights of New York Street Photography, along with the exhibition London Street Photography. The exhibition at the South Street Seaport Museum will carry that story forward through new candid images that show the evolution of the city and of the genre itself in the twenty-first century.
The new street photography exhibition, scheduled to open in December 2012, will be curated by Sean Corcoran, curator of prints and photographs for the Museum of the City of New York and the South Street Seaport Museum. Both professional and amateur photographers are invited to submit pictures for consideration. Selections will be made by a jury comprised of Corcoran; Elisabeth Biondi, former visuals editor at the New Yorker; and Stella Kramer, Pulitzer Prize–winning photo editor and creative consultant. Deadline for entries is 11:59 pm, October 22, 2012.
Courtesy of MCNY, have a look at a selection of early submissions above. For full guidelines and to submit images, click here.
Open Call: NYC Street Photography
Matt Stuart, Policeman of 5th Avenue, New York City, USA, 2008
Matt Bialer, Untitled, 2004
Harvey Stein, Youth in Front of Harlem Church, 2012
An Rong-Xu, Pell Street After A Rain Shower
Through October 22, 2012, South Street Seaport Museum invites submissions of new works in the field of New York street photography for a juried exhibition to open in the late fall of 2012. The exhibition seeks to showcase the best of contemporary photography capturing life as it unfolds in New York’s public places—its streets, parks, and plazas.
New York City has a rich tradition of street photography. Such notable imagemakers as Jacob Riis, Robert Frank, and Nan Goldin have captured the diversity and vitality of the city’s streets and its denizens for well over a century. These artists recorded fleeting moments, capturing the faces and lives of ordinary people as they move through an ever-changing metropolis.
The Museum of the City of New York (which operates the South Street Seaport Museum) is currently presenting some of the best of these historic images in City Scenes: Highlights of New York Street Photography, along with the exhibition London Street Photography. The exhibition at the South Street Seaport Museum will carry that story forward through new candid images that show the evolution of the city and of the genre itself in the twenty-first century.
The new street photography exhibition, scheduled to open in December 2012, will be curated by Sean Corcoran, curator of prints and photographs for the Museum of the City of New York and the South Street Seaport Museum. Both professional and amateur photographers are invited to submit pictures for consideration. Selections will be made by a jury comprised of Corcoran; Elisabeth Biondi, former visuals editor at the New Yorker; and Stella Kramer, Pulitzer Prize–winning photo editor and creative consultant. Deadline for entries is 11:59 pm, October 22, 2012.
Courtesy of MCNY, have a look at a selection of early submissions above. For full guidelines and to submit images, click here.
October 18, 2012
Recap: Aperture Remix Opening
Aperture Remix Reading Room
Maxwell Anderson, Production Manager, Aperture Remix
Visitors enjoying Aperture's Sixtieth Anniversary Auction Preview
Vik Muniz in front of his work
Visitors enjoying Aperture's Sixtieth Anniversary Auction Preview
Aperture Remix photographer Doug Rickard and influencer Stephen Shore
Aperture Remix opening reception
Last night Aperture celebrated the opening of Aperture Remix—an exhibition that asks ten contemporary photographers to respond to an Aperture publication that has been influential in forming their work, paying it artistic homage—with a lively reception attended by contributing photographers Doug Rickard, Penelope Umbrico, Vik Muniz and James Welling, as well as Stephen Shore, whose Uncommon Places monograph was paid homage by Rickard’s image series and photobook Ordinary Pictures.
Aperture Remix: A Sixtieth Anniversary Celebration and Reading Room is on view at Aperture Gallery through November 17, 2012.
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Related press:
· Time Lightbox
· New Yorker
· Paper Magazine
· American Photo
· D.A.R.T.
October 17, 2012
Video: Martin Parr Presents “Life’s a Beach”
In this video, Martin Parr talks about his lifetime photographing at the beach, and how it has culminated in his latest book, Life’s a Beach. Designed by Xavier Barral, the book resembles a family photo album, with individual prints inserted into each page, and is published in a limited edition of one thousand, each one of them signed.
Copies available now in our shop!
Life's a BeachPrice: $150.00
Audio: Doug Rickard Artist Talk
Over a period of two years, Doug Rickard took advantage of Google Street View’s comprehensive image archive to virtually drive overlooked roads throughout America, bleak places that are forgotten, economically devastated, and in various states of decay. He rephotographed the images as they appeared on his computer screen, framing and freeing them from their online origins.
In this audio cast, Rickard discusses both his admiration for and reinterpretation of American street photography in light of an increasingly technological world.
A New American PicturePrice: $60.00
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