Print Matters: Photography, Photobooks, and Contemporary Japanese Art
Aperture Conversations
Print Matters: Photography, Photobooks, and Contemporary Japanese Art
Tuesday, October 27
6:30 p.m. EDT
Japan Society 333 East 47th Street New York, NY
Join Aperture Foundation and Japan Society for an intimate, salon-style discussion on the past and future of avant-garde photography and photobooks in Japan. Led by Yasufumi Nakamori (For a New World to Come exhibition curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), Lesley A. Martin (Creative Director, Aperture Foundation), and Michael Famighetti (Editor, Aperture magazine), the conversation is followed by an exclusive cocktail reception with the discussants.
This event is in partnership with Japan Society. Discounted tickets are available for Aperture members.
For more information, visit japansociety.org.
Image: Daidō Moriyama (b. 1938), From Farewell Photography (detail), 1970. Gelatin silver print, 9 15/16 x 12 1/8 in. Tokyo Polytechnic University, Shadai Gallery. © Daidō Moriyama / Courtesy of Tokyo Polytechnic University, Shadai Gallery and Taka Ishii Gallery
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