To celebrate Mitchell’s first survey monograph, Aperture is pleased to present this special collectors’ edition of Wish This Was Real, which includes three custom metallic covers, based on artworks originally printed by Mitchell as unique mirror works, and two posters, all enclosed in a deluxe folder. Each edition—limited to 100 copies and printed by Trifolio, in Verona, Italy—is signed and numbered by Mitchell.

The proceeds from the sale of this collectors’ edition directly supports the artist and Aperture’s nonprofit publishing, educational, and public programs.

Delve into the poignant narrative of Father, a powerful new monograph by celebrated photographer Diana Markosian. Coinciding with the release of the monograph, Aperture is pleased to release this limited-edition book and print set that features a special version of the book and an exclusive print from Diana Markosian: Father (Aperture, 2024).

Born in Moscow, Markosian relocated to California as a child, and her life has been marked by her father’s absence—a profound absence that has shaped her understanding of family and identity. With no photographs to guide her and years of separation, she embarked on a transformative quest to find him in Armenia, revealing the complexities of love, loss, and longing. Through a captivating blend of documentary photographs, intimate family snapshots, and archival materials, alongside her original, diaristic writings, Markosian invites readers into the intricate dynamics of fatherhood and the realities of their relationship.

This limited-edition is a unique opportunity to own both a version of the book—which features additional pages with images from Super 8 films (printed on a Golden Star K 90-gram paper, unique to this limited edition)—and a signed archival pigment print, which is an image of the artist with her father, all presented in a clamshell box. The edition is limited to 50 signed-and-numbered copies.

This special edition is enclosed in a cloth slipcase and includes a booklet featuring a survey of Frank’s films, which was first published as an appendix in the Aperture and Museum of Modern Art 1968 edition of The Americans, long out of print. An essential volume for collectors, this edition is a rare opportunity to revisit Frank’s work anew.

Limited to an edition of 30 signed and numbered sets, each set features a signed book and signed C-print printed in the United Kingdom. Nick Waplington’s Living Room, his first book, was published by Aperture in 1991, and was an instant sensation within the photography world and beyond. The 59 photographs in the original edition documented the lives of friends, families, and neighbors on the Broxtowe housing estate in Nottingham, England, where Waplington spent years making thousands of images.

In the decades since its publication, Living Room has achieved an iconic status in modern British photography. In the meantime, Waplington has developed a diverse and forward-looking body of work, and has been reluctant to heed calls to reissue the book in a new edition. Now, nearing the book’s thirty-fifth anniversary, he has produced a vibrantly new conceptual remake, one that revisits and refashions the work from a contemporary vantage point.

This new work follows the same sequencing of landscape and portrait images, and preserves the original design of the legendary Tibor Kalman. Each of the original 59 photographs, however, has been replaced with an as-yet-unseen work from Waplington’s extensive archive, often from the same roll of film as the originally printed image. The result is both familiar and uncanny, a vivid journey back to Thatcher’s Britain and a testament to the decades of art and life that have elapsed between then and now.

“I was never without a camera in those years and I photographed my friends constantly. I published the pictures in this book so that nostalgia could never color my past.”

—Nan Goldin

Aperture is pleased to release this signed, limited-edition print by Nan Goldin, accompanied by a signed copy of the newest printing of The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. This latest printing features remastered reproductions and an updated afterword by the artist.

First published in 1986, Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggles for intimacy and understanding among the friends and lovers whom Goldin describes as her tribe. These photographs depict a lifestyle that was visceral, charged and seething with raw appetite for living. Thirty-five years later, Goldin’s lush color photography and candid style still demand that the viewer encounter their profound intensity head on. The book’s influence on photography and other aesthetic realms has continued to grow, making it a classic of contemporary photography. In 2020, Aperture magazine returned to this iconic work with its “Ballads” issue, featuring an exclusive interview with Goldin and a portfolio of images curated by the artist and dedicated to her influences.

The proceeds from this print sale benefit PAIN, VOCAL-NY, and Aperture.

PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) addresses the crisis of the ongoing Drug War by targeting the pharmaceutical companies that have profited off the addictions and deaths of over half a million Americans. Funds from this print sale will go toward future actions to hold Big Pharma accountable, advocate for harm reduction, and pressure our government to decriminalize drugs and provide life-saving treatments for people who use drugs.

VOCAL-NY (Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders) is a statewide grassroots membership organization that builds power among low-income people affected by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness in order to create healthy and just communities. This is accomplished through community organizing, leadership development, advocacy, direct services, participatory research, and direct action.

]]> https://aperture.org/books/david-benjamin-sherry-pink-genesis/ Wed, 02 Mar 2022 04:34:16 +0000 https://aperture.org/?post_type=product&p=184274 Pink Genesis is a limited-edition artist’s book of unique photograms by celebrated photographer David Benjamin Sherry]]> Pink Genesis is a limited-edition artist’s book of unique photograms by celebrated photographer David Benjamin Sherry.

Sherry is a magician of the darkroom. Celebrated for his use of vivid color and his skill with traditional analog photographic techniques, he has established himself as a leading voice in contemporary photography. His work has often examined the monumental landscapes of the American West and the environmental challenges the region faces.

Pink Genesis introduces Sherry’s equally intriguing but lesser-known series of striking, large-scale, cameraless color photograms, laboriously made by hand in the darkroom. Using cardboard masks to create mesmerizing geometric forms and incorporating his own body into the images, Sherry actively references histories of photography, as well as artists such as Josef Albers and Robert Rauschenberg, captivating viewers with a fresh way of seeing.

The series, inspired by James Bidgood’s 1971 cult film Pink Narcissus, almost entirely shot within Bidgood’s New York apartment, explores how “a small interior space—specifically, a space of queer imagination—can be a site of fantasy and possibility,” as Lucy Gallun, associate curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, states in her essay for the book. For Sherry, the private, contemplative place of the darkroom serves as a space to think through the intersections of identity, abstraction, and the meditative possibilities of monochrome.

This exquisitely produced book, the first ever dedicated to Sherry’s photograms, comes in an edition of 750 and collects twenty-nine of these one-of-a-kind works that delight in the pleasures of form, color, and coded queer reference. Each book is individually signed by the artist.

A storied site of history, opulence, and political power, France’s Palace of Versailles has long captured the imagination of both the public and many acclaimed photographers. In 2018, Viviane Sassen was invited by Versailles to make a series of photographs throughout its vast grounds. For six months, she was given free rein, often after official hours, when the buildings were empty, to wander and photograph the palace’s extravagant gardens, gilded baroque interiors, and even Marie Antoinette’s private correspondence.

Venus & Mercury is Versailles as you’ve never seen the storied locale before. Drawn to the bodies represented in the palace’s many marble statues, Sassen created hybrid forms that play with notions of sexuality and gender and call to mind traditions of Surrealist art and the work of figures such as Hans Bellmer. The book, featuring more than one hundred images, brims with Sassen’s surprising, pigment-splashed photomontages that play with vivid color and abstracted forms—and a group of women, born and raised in the town beyond the palace walls, appears throughout the book, modern-day protagonists photographed within grand palatial chambers.

A series of poems by Marjolijn van Heemstra, commissioned by Sassen, allude to histories of intrigue in court society. Conceived and designed by iconic bookmaker Irma Boom, Venus & Mercury is a unique art object with a double-gatefold cover, packaged in a custom-made box, each individually painted by Sassen.

Printed in a limited edition of 1,000 copies

The North American frontier is an enduring symbol of romance, rebellion, escape, and freedom. At the same time, it’s a profoundly masculine myth—cowboys, outlaws, Beat poets. Justine Kurland reclaimed this space in her now-iconic series of images of teenage girls, taken between 1997 and 2002 on the road in the American wilderness. “I staged the girls as a standing army of teenaged runaways in resistance to patriarchal ideals,” says Kurland. She portrays the girls as fearless and free, tender and fierce. They hunt and explore, braid each other’s hair, and swim in sun-dappled watering holes—paying no mind to the camera (or the viewer). Their world is at once lawless and utopian, a frontier Eden in the wild spaces just outside of suburban infrastructure and ideas. Twenty years on, the series still resonates.

Over the last seven years, Melissa O’Shaughnessy has photographed daily on the streets of New York. As one of a growing number of women street photographers contributing to this dynamic genre, O’Shaughnessy enters the territory with clarity and a distinctly humanist eye, offering a refreshing addition to the tradition of street photography. Through her curious and quirky vision, we witness the play of human activity on the glittering sidewalks of the city. Woven into her cast of characters are the lonely, the soulful, and the proud. She has fallen for them all—perfect strangers.

Over the last seven years, Melissa O’Shaughnessy has photographed daily on the streets of New York. As one of a growing number of women street photographers contributing to this dynamic genre, O’Shaughnessy enters the territory with clarity and a distinctly humanist eye, offering a refreshing addition to the tradition of street photography. Through her curious and quirky vision, we witness the play of human activity on the glittering sidewalks of the city. Woven into her cast of characters are the lonely, the soulful, and the proud. She has fallen for them all—perfect strangers.