Aperture Lectures at NYPH: May 13-17

"Aperture Presents"
A series of panel discussions daily at 5:00 pm
Wednesday, May 13 – Sunday, May 17, 2009
The New York Photo Festival
St. Ann's Warehouse, 38 Water Street, Brooklyn
FREE with Festival Admission
(image credit: Penelope Umbrico)

Thursday, May 14 – Artist-Publisher: Mass Produced for Mass Dissemination
The panel discussion series premieres with acclaimed NYPH08 curator and Aperture publisher, Lesley A. Martin, moderating a discussion on “artists-as-publishers” with photographer/designer Jason Fulford and artist/designer Leanne Shapton, co-founders of the small non-profit press J&L books; photographer Richard Renaldi who recently started his own publishing company with his partner, Charles Lane Press. Their debut book Fall River Boys, Renaldi ‘s second monograph, documents young men and cityscapes in the town of Fall River, Massachusetts. (Other panelists to be announced.)

Friday, May 15 – The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography
This panel moderated by writer and critic Lyle Rexer coincides with the exhibition he is curating, opening at Aperture Gallery on Saturday, May 16. The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, showcases the work of more than twenty contemporary photographers who base their practice in some form of abstraction. Rexer and artists Jack Sal, Silvio Wolf, and Penelope Umbrico, all included in the show, will discuss their diverse and engaging abstract approaches. The panel will be followed by a book signing of Rexer's recent Aperture publication The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, the first book in English to document this phenomenon and to put it into historical context.

Saturday, May 16 – Cuddle (with Bill Hunt)
This discussion moderated by photography dealer and collector Bill Hunt, co-founder of Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York, will review and then synthesize the issues discussed in three prior panels organized by NYPH09 curator Chris Boot, which will tackle topics related to Boot’s Gay Men Play project. Porn, art, censorship, issues of representation of gay male sexuality— Bill Hunt breaks it all down, getting down to brass tacks with Svetlana Mintcheva, director of the arts program of the National Coalition Against Censorship, and other panelists, to be announced.

Sunday. May 17 – Photography After Frank, Conversation between Philip Gefter and Andy Grundberg
Philip Gefter, longtime New York Times writer and former picture editor will be in conversation with independent critic and curator Andy Grundberg about contemporary photography and the debts owed to its predecessors, as well as its evolution over the past fifty years. This discussion will be followed by a book signing to celebrate the release of Gefter’s highly anticipated Aperture publication, Photography After Frank. In this new compilation of essays, Gefter presents the tale of contemporary photography, starting with a pivotal moment: Robert Frank's seminal work in the 1950s, The Americans. Throughout the book, Gefter connects the dots of photography’s transformation into what it is today connecting Robert Frank’s legacy with the work of dozens of important artists who have followed in his wake, from Lee Friedlander and Nan Goldin to Stephen Shore and Ryan McGinley.

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