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Aperture is pleased to release two new limited-edition photographs by Richard Renaldi in anticipation of his upcoming publication Manhattan Sunday.

Manhattan Sunday is part homage to a slice of New York nightlife, and part celebration of New York as a palimpsest—an evolving form onto which millions of people have and continue to project their ideal selves and ideal lives. Drawing heavily on his personal subcultural pathways, Renaldi captures that ethereal moment when Saturday night melds into Sunday morning across the borough of Manhattan. This collection of portraits, landscapes, and club interiors evokes the vibrant nighttime rhythms of a city that persists in both its decadence and its dreams, despite beliefs to the contrary. Manhattan Sunday is a personal memoir that also offers a reflection of the city’s evolving identity—one that still carries with it and cherishes the echoes of its past.

Here, the artist captures a portrait of one such reveler as he saunters off into the early morning. As noted journalist Michael Musto says of the work, “Richard Renaldi’s photos cover a diversity of NYC nocturnal habitues, reveling in their glorious otherness as the party fades and a contemplative mode takes over. His lens treasures these people, as well it should.”

—Michael Musto, Out.com

Pigment Print
Image Size: 20 x 25 inches
Paper Size: 21 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches
Edition of 5 + 2 Artist Proofs
Signed and numbered by the artist

Richard Renaldi (b. 1968, Chicago, Illinois) graduated from New York University with a BFA in photography in 1990. He is represented by Benrubi Gallery, New York, and Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin. Manhattan Sunday is Renaldi’s fourth book, following Figure and Ground (Aperture, 2006), Fall River Boys (2009), and Touching Strangers (Aperture, 2014). In 2015, he was named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in Photography. He has been included in numerous group shows, including Strangers: The First International Center of Photography Triennial of Photography and Video, New York, and a solo exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, among others.