Aperture
New Jersey , 2017 / © Arielle Bobb-Willis / Cover image Los Angeles, 2020 / © Arielle Bobb-Willis
Welcome Reception with Aperture’s Executive Director, Sarah Meister, and Book Signing with Arielle Bobb-Willis
Friday, October 4
6:00–8:00 p.m
Buckhead Village
For Atlanta Art Week Aperture will present an installation of work by Arielle Bobb-Willis, showcasing vividly colorful, choreographed works featured in the newly released Keep the Kid Alive (Aperture, 2024) the rising artist’s first monograph that expands the genres of fashion and art photography.
Also on view and available for collectors will be select prints and limited editions from Aperture’s print program, including works by Ernest Cole, Todd Hido, Justine Kurland, Richard Misrach, Zanele Muholi, Kristine Potter, Jamal Shabazz, and Hank Willis Thomas. In addition, a new work will be on display by Kelli Connell, whose exhibition Pictures for Charis is presented at the neighboring High Museum through January 5.
Guests can also explore our latest titles including I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now, Louis Carlos Bernal: Monografía, as well as rare and signed photobooks, classic Aperture titles and Aperture Magazines, with special subscription offers available on site.
All purchases from our pop-up event benefit the artists and support Aperture’s nonprofit publishing and public programming.
Arielle Bobb-Willis (born in New York, 1994) has published her photography in the New Yorker, I-D, W Magazine, British Journal of Photography, L’uomo Vogue, New York magazine’s The Cut, and the New York Times Magazine. Her work is featured in The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion (Aperture, 2019) and an accompanying exhibition, which traveled to the Museum of the African Diaspora, Rencontres d’Arles, Fotografiska Sweden, and other venues. She is currently based in Los Angeles.
About Aperture
Aperture is a nonprofit publisher that leads conversations around photography worldwide. From its base in New York, Aperture connects global audiences and supports artists through its acclaimed quarterly magazine, books, exhibitions, digital platforms, public programs, limited-edition prints, and awards. Established in 1952 to advance “creative thinking, significantly expressed in words and photographs, Aperturechampions photography’s vital role in nurturing curiosity and encouraging a more just, tolerant society.
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