Wednesday, March 5, 6:30PM

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 West 27th Street
New York, NY

Aperture Foundation, in collaboration with the Department of Photography at Parsons the New School for Design, is pleased to present a talk with photographer Elinor Carucci. Born 1971 in Jerusalem, Israel, Elinor Carucci graduated in 1995 from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design with a degree in photography, and moved to New York that same year. In a relatively short amount of time, her work has been included in an impressive amount of solo and group exhibitions worldwide, solo shows include Edwynn Houk Gallery, Fifty One Fine Art Gallery and Gagosian Gallery, London among others.

Her photographs are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Art, among others and her work appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Details, New York Magazine, W, Aperture, ARTnewsand many more publications.

She was awarded the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award for Young Photographer in 2001 and The Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. Carucci has published two monographs to date, her defining first book, Closer, is now available in a second edition with a new foreword by Susan Kismaric (Curator, Department of Photography, MoMA). Carucci currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts.