Events on Thursday, April 23, 2009, NYC

Access To Life (Left) Mali © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos; Russia © Alex Majoli/Magnum Photos

Book Signing with Magnum Photographers

On Wednesday (which is to say right now) there is a panel discussion about a project where eight photojournalists, all members of Magnum, document the transformative effect of antiretroviral treatment on the bodies, lives, and families of HIV infected people around the world.

Tomorrow there will be a book signing at Aperture which will include some of the following photographers: Jonas Bendiksen, Jim Goldberg, Alex Majoli, Steve McCurry, Paolo Pellegrin, Gilles Peress, Eli Reed, and Larry Towell.

Most likely not Gilles Peress who I'm told will not sign books anymore.

Thursday, April 23, 2009, 7:00 pm
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street
212-505-5555




Andrew Bush Book Signing and Reception

Tomorrow, at Yossi Milo Gallery, an exhibit of Andrew Bush's series of photographs called Vector Portraits will be opening. A year ago, a book of these images called Drive was published by Yale University Press and I suppose that's the book they'll have on hand to be signed though he does have a couple of other books under his belt as well.

This is how the gallery describes the work in the show:

Begun in 1989, Andrew Bush’s series Vector Portraits was taken while the artist drove the city streets and freeways of Los Angeles. Either stopped in traffic or traveling at speeds of 20 to 70 miles per hour, the artist took portraits of other drivers using a medium-format roll-film camera and flash attached to the passenger side door of his car. Extended titles note particulars of speed, location or time with scientific precision while leaving other details unclear, such as “Man traveling southbound at 67 mph on U.S. Route 101 near Montecito, California, at 6:31 p.m. on or around Sunday, August 28, 1994”.

The photographs capture subjects in the ambiguous combination of private and public space created by a “private room on wheels.” The drivers are either alone in their vehicles lost in thought, or with passengers, revealing the dynamic between families, couples or friends. An examination of people and their cars in a city famous for its car culture, the series addresses personal privacy and challenges our definition of public space.

I suppose...

Thursday, April 23, 2009, 6:00–8:00 pm
Yossi Milo Gallery
525 West 25th Street
212-414-0370
info@yossimilo.com