Aperture Celebrates 65 Years at the “Elements of Style” Gala

Gigi Hadid, Iman, and Anja Rubik

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Zackary Drucker with Aperture's winter 2017 issue "Future Gender"

Roxxe Ireland © Aperture Foundation

Elizabeth Kahane, Cathy Caplan, Chris Boot, Susan Gutfruend, Judy Glickman Lauder, Anja Rubik, and Edward Enninful

Roxxe Ireland © Aperture Foundation

Kwame Brathwaite, Iman, and Chris Boot

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Vinoodh Matadin, Charles Star Matadin, and Inez van Lamsweerde

Roxxe Ireland © Aperture Foundation

Chris Boot and Edward Enninful

Roxxe Ireland © Aperture Foundation

Naomi Campbell and Edward Enninful

Sean Zanni/PMC © Patrick McMullan

Sherry Bronfman, Alexe Belle, Kwame Brathwaite, Tanisha C. Ford, and Isis Valentino

Madison Voelkel © Aperture Foundation

Anja Rubik and Iman

Sean Zanni/PMC © Patrick McMullan

Marc Sebastian and Hari Nef

Roxxe Ireland © Aperture Foundation

Richie Shazam Khan and Chloe Wise

Roxxe Ireland © Aperture Foundation

Judith Light gives a tribute to honoree Zackary Drucker

Sean Zanni/PMC © Patrick McMullan

Inez van Lamsweerde and Naomi Campbell

Sean Zanni/PMC © Patrick McMullan

Gigi Hadid, Naomi Campbell, and Edward Enninful

Madison Voelkel © Aperture Foundation

Kwame Brathwaite and Iman

Roxxe Ireland © Aperture Foundation

Daniel Lönnström, Richie Shazam Kahn, Chloe Wise, and Louise Parker
Madison Voelkel © Aperture Foundation

Gigi Hadid

Roxxe Ireland © Aperture Foundation

Taia Kwinter and Uma Thurman

Sean Zanni/PMC © Patrick McMullan

Daniel Lönnström, Hari Nef, Chloe Wise, and Marc Sebastian

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Zackary Drucker and Mx Justin Vivian Bond

Roxxe Ireland © Aperture Foundation

Stephen Galloway

Roxxe Ireland © Aperture Foundation

Paola Kudacki and Anja Rubik

Roxxe Ireland © Aperture Foundation

Sofia Sanchez de Betak

Sean Zanni ©Patrick McMullan

Kwame Brathwaite recieves a standing ovation

Madison Voelkel © Aperture Foundation

Chloe Wise, Matthew Foley, Conor Lucas, Richie Shazam Kahn

Sean Zanni/PMC © Patrick McMullan

Jessica Nagle, Cathy Kaplan, and Sarah McNear

Sean Zanni/PMC © Patrick McMullan

Naomi Campbell

Madison Voelkel © Aperture Foundation

Kwame Brathwaite and Dawoud Bey

Roxxe Ireland © Aperture Foundation

Kwame Brathwaite, Sherry Bronfman, and Kwame S. Brathwaite

Casey Kelbaugh/Aperture Foundation

Gigi Hadid and Hari Nef

Madison Voelkel © Aperture Foundation

Gigi Hadid and Inez van Lamsweerde

Sean Zanni/PMC © Patrick McMullan

Richard Gregg, David Solo, Darius Himes, Michael Hoeh and guest

Casey Kelbaugh/Aperture Foundation

Nadiya Williams

Roxxe Ireland © Aperture Foundation

Malu Alvarez and Lindsey Butler

Roxxe Ireland © Aperture Foundation

Gigi Hadid and Naomi Campbell

Sean Zanni/PMC © Patrick McMullan

Kate Schelter

Roxxe Ireland © Aperture Foundation

Missy O'Shaughnessy and Chris Boot

Roxxe Ireland © Aperture Foundation

Bill and Elizabeth Kahane

Madison Voelkel © Aperture Foundation

Inez van Lamsweerde

Sean Zanni/PMC © Patrick McMullan

Hemant Kanakia and Tony White

Madison Voelkel © Aperture Foundation

Nadiya Williams and Svetlana Acquista

Madison Voelkel © Aperture Foundation

Cena Jackson, Chelsea Kozak, and Kate Schelter

Madison Voelkel © Aperture Foundation

Stuart Cooper

Madison Voelkel © Aperture Foundation

Elaine Goldman and David Raymond

Madison Voelkel © Aperture Foundation

Tom Schiff, Chris Boot, and Mary Ellen Goeke

Madison Voelkel © Aperture Foundation

Guests at the "Elements of Style" Gala
Courtesy of Max Mikulecky

Dinner scene at the "Elements of Style" Gala
Lauren Harper © Aperture Foundation

Zanele Muholi and Dawoud Bey

Lauren Harper © Aperture Foundation

Michael Famighetti and Tanisha C. Ford

Sean Zanni/PMC © Patrick McMullan

Alexe Belle and Isis Valentino of St. Beauty

Sean Zanni/PMC © Patrick McMullan

Sara Friedlander

Sean Zanni/PMC © Patrick McMullan

Matthew Foley and Kwame Brathwaite dressed in Thom Browne

Sean Zanni/PMC © Patrick McMullan

Bill Kahane, Rebecca Hayward, and Sam Lawson

Sean Zanni/PMC © Patrick McMullan

Mike Starn and Casey Weyand

Sean Zanni/PMC © Patrick McMullan

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Sean Zanni/PMC © Patrick McMullan

On October 30, Aperture honored a group of extraordinary image-makers—Zackary Drucker, Kwame Brathwaite, and Inez & Vinoodh—who are influencing how we look, how we dress, and how we can imagine, and reimagine, ourselves. Aperture’s “Elements of Style” Gala, which took place in the Frank Gehry–designed IAC building, attracted stars of art, film, and fashion, including Edward Enninful, Uma Thurman, Naomi Campbell, Judith Light, Iman, Hari Nef, Gigi Hadid, Sofia Sanchez de Betak, Dawoud Bey, Zanele Muholi, Chloe Wise, and Jimmy Moffat. Throughout the evening, a presentation of images played on a city block–length screen. Musical entertainers included Mx Justin Vivian Bond, St. Beauty, and Anohni.

Together with more than 450 guests, Aperture celebrated its sixty-fifth anniversary of serving the art, story, and community of photography “not by looking backward to its past glories,” in the words of British Vogue’s editor-in-chief Edward Enniful, “but by celebrating photography’s role in shaping our futures. It’s a time to express ourselves in a way that reflects ourselves, our stories, our communities, to our fullest potential; to be the truest version of ourselves that we can be.” The event was cohosted by Enniful; philanthropists Susan Gutfreund, Judy Glickman Lauder, and Elizabeth Ann Kahane; Aperture’s Board Chair Cathy M. Kaplan; actress and model Hari Nef; and activist and model Anja Rubik.

“For real and lasting change, we need allies from across the cultural landscape, allies who recognize the importance of ceding control of trans narratives back to the trans people who live them. Aperture is such an ally,” said Zackary Drucker, artist, trans activist, and producer of Amazon’s Emmy-winning series Transparent. Drucker is the guest editor of Aperture’s forthcoming winter 2017 issue, “Future Gender,” which considers the power of photography to shape trans lives around the world. “I’m in awe of the work we can do together.”

Inez & Vinoodh, some of the most celebrated and influential photographers working in fashion and art today, then premiered a striking video of their fashion images, set to a previously unreleased recording by Anohni. “At the root of our work lies the wish to visualize all the options of expression that a human face and body have, and to construct a heroic image of those in front of our lens,” said Inez van Lamsweerde.

The final guest to be honored, Kwame Brathwaite, advanced the idea “Black Is Beautiful” in the 1960s through his fashion photography and social activism. As author and scholar Tanisha C. Ford noted in her tribute to the Harlem photographer, “Brathwaite’s images envisioned what black beauty might look like for those who lived in the 1960s, and they continue to do so for a generation today.”

Over the preceding Gala Weekend, the festivities kicked off with a tour of The Richard Avedon Foundation, followed by studio visits with Daniel Gordon and Alison Rossiter, as well as tours of collectors’ homes, Staley-Wise Gallery, and The Glass House.

On the evening of the Gala, during a dining experience designed by Angela Dimayuga, Sara Friedlander of Christie’s presided over a live auction, which featured works by Diane Arbus, Horst P. Horst, Inez & Vinoodh, Saul Leiter, Sally Mann, Joel Meyerowitz, Richard Misrach, Sebastião Salgado, Stephen Shore, Pete Souza, and Paul Strand. Also at the venue, to mark Aperture’s sixty-fifth anniversary, the Magnum Square Print Sale in partnership with Aperture featured forty-eight museum-quality 6-by-6-inch prints for sale for $100 each, by Bruce Davidson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Todd Hido, Mary Ellen Mark, Susan Meiselas, Alec Soth, Hank Willis Thomas, Penelope Umbrico, Alex Webb, and many others. The prints are available for sale online through Friday, November 3, 2017, 6:00 p.m. EST.

Read more about the Aperture Gala on VOGUE.

Aperture’s endeavors are only possible with the help of Gala patrons and Aperture Members. Click here to donate to Aperture’s Annual Fund or join our community as an Aperture Member.

The 2017 Aperture Gala and Auction was generously supported by:

Ingram, Christie’s, Foto Care, Artsy, Emily Thompson Flowers, Fine Art Frameworks, Hypno, photograph magazine, Patrick McMullan Company, Stella Artois, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, and Ziobaffa.

Gala Committees 

Leaders

Anonymous

Sb Cooper* and R. L. Besson

Elizabeth* and William Kahane

Cathy M. Kaplan* and Renwick D. Martin

Leonard and Judy Lauder

Anne Stark Locher* and Kurt Locher

Jessica Nagle* and Roland Hartley-Urquhart

Thomas R. Schiff*

Gala Committee

Malú Alvarez

Anonymous

Rita Anthoine

Peter Barbur* and Tim Doody

Dawoud Bey*

Allan Chapin* and Anna Rachminov

Andrew Craven

Fine Art Frameworks

Foto-Care Ltd.

Annette Y. Friedland*

Elaine Goldman* and John Benis

Barbara M. Goodbody

Great Bowery

Howard Greenberg

Susan Gutfreund

Darius Himes, Christie’s

Michael Hoeh*

Ingram Content Group

Darlene Kaplan and Steve Zuckerman

Hemant Kanakia

Michèle Gerber Klein

Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg

Raymond Learsy

Susana Torruella Leval*

Marina and Andrew Lewin

Nion McEvoy*

Patrick McMullan

Sarah Anne McNear*

Joel Meyerowitz*

Helen Nitkin*

Catherine Opie

Melissa* and James O’Shaughnessy

Louise Parker

Lori Perlow

Sarah Gore Reeves*

Leslie Simitch

David Solo*

Etheleen Staley and Taki Wise

Severn Taylor* and J. Scott Switzer

Willard Taylor* and Virginia Davies

Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont

Barbara and Donald Tober

VLM Productions

V+S Company

John C. Williams

Whit Williams

*Aperture trustee

The Photo Party Committee

Joshua Citarella

Dianna Cohen

Awol Erizku

Matthew Foley

Liz Grover

Alexander Hurst

Richie Shazam Khan

Samuel P. Lawson

Joshua Lewin

Sarah Meyohas

Antwaun Sargent

Rory Satran

Catherine Smith

Chloe Wise

Esther Zuckerman

Additional support from:

Ann Ames

Anonymous

Joe Baio and Anne Griffin

Amanda and Glenn Fuhrman

Sylvia Hemingway

Philippe Laumont

Aliya and Aren LeeKong

David Moscow

Yancey Richardson

Salon 94

Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović

Casey and Lauren Weyand

Paul G. Wolf

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