Aperture's Blog, page 210

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.

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.

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

Exhibition on view

National Geographic’s American West

National Geographic photographers traveled the West over decades documenting the unique and colorful culture that built the foundation of America. National Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West, which assembles a handpicked selection of rare and amazing images spanning 125 years, will open in 10 museums across the country – a first in exhibition history.

Participating museums include:

• Booth Western Art Museum

• Buffalo Bill Historical Center

• Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art

• Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa

• National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum

• National Geographic Museum

• National Museum of Wildlife Art

• Rockwell Museum of Western Art

• C.M. Russell Museum

• Stark Museum of Art

This exhibition opens October 27th in venues nationwide.

Taryn Simon @ Corcoran Gallery of Art

Artist Taryn Simon presents the first complete East Coast exhibition of Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII from November 10, 2012 to February 24, 2013.

A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters was produced over a four-year period (2008–11), during which the artist traveled around the world researching and recording bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the eighteen “chapters” that make up the work, the external forces of territory, power, circumstance, or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. The subjects Simon documents include victims of genocide in Bosnia, test rabbits infected with a lethal disease in Australia, the first woman to hijack an aircraft, and the living dead in India. Her collection is at once cohesive and arbitrary, mapping the relationships among chance, blood, and other components of fate.

A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters highlights the space between text and image, absence and presence, and order and disorder.

A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII

November 10, 2012–February 24, 2013

The Corcoran Gallery of Art

Washington, DC

Image: Taryn Simon, excerpt from Chapter XVII, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII. Wilson Centre for Photography. © 2012 Taryn Simon.

Winter Street / Winter Landscape Workshopwith Joel Meyerowitz

Barney Kulok: Building

BUILDING – BARNEY KULOK from Benazir the Cat on Vimeo.

In this short, filmed in Verona while on press for Building: Louis I. Kahn at Roosevelt Island, Barney Kulok offers a look at the process of “building” his latest monograph.

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In October 2012, Four Freedoms Park—the last design Louis I. Kahn completed before his untimely death in 1974—will open on Roosevelt Island in New York, over forty years after its commission as a memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Barney Kulok’s black-and-white photographs of the building site function as a meditation on the materiality and formal underpinnings of Kahn’s architectural thinking. Building is at once a historical record and a multilayered visual investigation of form and the subtleties of texture—elements of fundamental importance to Kahn’s philosophies. As architect Steven Holl writes, “Kulok’s photographs free the subject matter from a literal interpretation of the site. They stand as ‘Equivalents’ to the words about material, light, and shadow that Louis Kahn often spoke.”

Barney Kulok’s Building: Louis I. Kahn at Roosevelt Island will be available soon!

Building:Price: $75.00