Legacy Box Set: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks

Aperture is pleased to offer a very special limited-edition print and book box set, featuring three unique components created as part of Meyerowitz's most recent project-a compelling body of work resulting from a commission he received from the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation to document the city's parks. Each custom-designed clamshell box contains a copy of the book Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks with a special-edition bellyband, as well as "The Hallett," a limited-edition book featuring one of the artist's favorite spots-the Hallett Nature Sanctuary in Manhattan. "The Hallett" was designed and printed exclusively for this edition using an HP Indigo Digital Press. Also included is a 10 x 12 inch HP archival pigment print, made personally by the artist. Each book and print is signed and numbered by Meyerowitz.

Archival pigment print, accompanied by a copy of Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks and a limited-edition copy of the artist’s book, The Hallet, presented together in a custom-designed clamshell case bound with a special-edition bellyband
Edition of 250 + 20 AP
Signed and numbered by the artist

Print title: Central Park, Hallett Nature Sanctuary, Autumn, 2006
Paper size: 10 x 12 inches
Image size: 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches

Joel Meyerowitz  (b. 1938, the Bronx, New York) is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. He is a two-time Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of both National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities awards, and a recipient of the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis. Meyerowitz has published over thirty books, including the Aperture titles Legacy (2009), Cape Light (2015), and Seeing Things (2016). He lives in New York and is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery.

Phillip Lopate (b. 1943, Brooklyn, New York) received a B.A. from Columbia in 1964 and a doctorate from the Union Graduate School in 1979. He spent twelve years working with children as a writer in schools and taught creative writing and literature at Fordham, Cooper Union, University of Houston, and New York University. Currently, Lopate holds the Adams Chair at Hofstra University, and he is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his many awards, he has received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and two New York Foundation for the Arts grants. His work includes: These Eyes Don’t Always Want to Stay Open (1972), Being With Children (1975), The Daily Round (1976), Confessions of Summer (1979), Bachelorhood: Tales of the Metropolis (1981), The Art of the Personal Essay (1995), Totally, Tenderly, Tragically (1998), Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (2000), Getting Personal (2003), Rudy Burckhardt: Life and Work (2004), Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan (2004), and American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now (2006).