A Major Traveling Exhibition, “photography Past Forward: Aperture At 50” Will Be Launched In New York At Sotheby’s In January 2003.

A MAJOR TRAVELING EXHIBITION, “PHOTOGRAPHY PAST FORWARD: APERTURE AT 50” WILL BE LAUNCHED IN NEW YORK AT SOTHEBY’S IN JANUARY 2003.

BIOGRAPHY: R. H. Cravens, a contributing editor to Aperture for a quarter-century, has provided the texts of more than a dozen Aperture monographs, various articles for the magazine, and most recently co-authored, with T.K.V. Desikachar, Health Healing & Beyond: Yoga and the Living Tradition of Krishnamacharya.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: R. H. Cravens is grateful to Peter Bunnell, Robert Haiko, Carole Kismaric, Susan Pakulis, Charles Simic, Jill and Lanny Shore, John Szarkowski, Jonathan Williams, and the staff of Aperture, especially Diana Stoll, for their help in compiling this book’s essay. In particular, throughout this project, Assistant Editor Michael Famighetti has rendered invaluable support and research assistance. With the exceptions of the chapter epigraphs and the passage from Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt, all citations in the text were culled from personal interviews or from Aperture publications. Research for the essay was also aided by Penelope Niven’s Steichen: A Biography {New York: Clarkson Potter, 1997); and Beaumont Newhall’s History of Photography (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1964) and Focus: Memoirs of a Life in Photography (Boston: Bulfinch, 1993).

TEXT CREDITS: Unless otherwise noted, all excerpted texts are from issues of Aperture magazine, and are copyright © Aperture Foundation, Inc.

Page 27, excerpt by Dorothea Lange and Daniel Dixon, reprinted courtesy the Minor White Archive, Princeton University, copyright © 1952 by Minor White, renewed by The Trustees of Princeton University, all rights reserved; pp. 70 and 78, excerpts by Minor White and Walter Chappell, reprinted courtesy the Minor White Archive, Princeton University, copyright © 1957 by Minor White, renewed by The Trustees of Princeton University, all rights reserved.

IMAGE CREDITS: Unless otherwise indicated, all photographs are courtesy and copyright © the artist.

Page 14, photograph by Paul Strand, copyright © Aperture Foundation Inc., Paul Strand Archive; pp. 16-17, photographs by Richard Avedon, copyright © 1963/1967; p. 19, photograph by Ugo Mulas, courtesy Archivio Ugo Mulas; p. 20, photograph by Henri CartierBresson, courtesy Magnum Photos, Inc.; p. 22, photographs by Chuck Close, courtesy the artist and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; p. 23, photograph by Cindy Sherman, courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures; p. 24, photograph by Annie Leibovitz, courtesy Annie Leibovitz/Contact Press Images; p. 25, photographs by Allen Ginsberg, courtesy and copyright © Allen Ginsberg Trust; pp. 28-29, photographs by Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery and bleakbeauty.com; p. 31, photograph by William Eggleston, courtesy the artist and Cheim & Read Gallery, New York; p. 34, photograph by Martine Franck, courtesy Magnum Photos, Inc.; p. 35, photograph by Robert Capa, courtesy the Estate of Robert Capa, copyright © 2000 Cornell Capa; p. 37, photograph by Gregory Crewdson, courtesy Luhring Augustine Gallery; p. 47, photographs by Joel Sternfeld, courtesy the artist and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; p. 51, photograph by David Wojnarowicz, courtesy P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York; p. 53, work by Barbara Kruger, courtesy Mary Boone Gallery, New York; p. 55, photograph by Josef Koudelka, courtesy Magnum Photos, Inc.; p. 56, photograph by Harry Callahan, courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; p. 64, photograph by Jan Groover, courtesy Janet Borden, Inc.; p. 65, photograph by Sigmar Polke, courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Cologne; p. 66, photographs by Mario Giacomelli, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, copyright © Photology, Milan; p. 67, photograph by Masahisa Fukase, courtesy Robert Mann Gallery, New York; p. 68, photograph by Shomei Tomatsu, courtesy Tepper Takayama Fine Arts; p. 69, photograph by Paul Caponigro, courtesy the artist and Schmidt Bingham Gallery; p. 70, photograph by Joel-Peter Witkin, courtesy the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; p. 71, photograph by Frederick Sommer, courtesy J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, copyright © Frederick and Frances Sommer Foundation; p. 74, photograph by Clarence John Laughlin, courtesy and copyright © The Historic New Orleans Collection; p. 75, photograph by Barbara Ess, courtesy the artist and Curt Marcus Gallery; pp. 78-79, daguerreotype by Adam Fuss, courtesy the artist and Cheim & Read Gallery, New York.

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