We hope to see you at Ion Studio tonight for the party celebrating the release of Erik Madigan Heck‘s first monograph, January to August. The book, which has been printed in a limited first edition of 2,000 copies, features personal documentary work, images from Erik’s “Artist as Muse” series for A Magazine, and his collaborations with British fashion designer Mary Katrantzou (recently showcased at Feature Shoot), among other bodies of work. Ion will also be hosting an exhibition of photos from the book that will be on view through November 25.
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Though he is not strictly a fashion photographer, Erik has collaborated with many important designers, including Giambattista Valli, Dries Van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Valentino, Rodarte, Haider Ackermann, and Jean Paul Gaultier, of whom he once produced a series of 24-karat-gold-leaf portraits at Gaultier’s Paris atelier. For January to August, Erik compiled eight new bodies of work created during the corresponding months of 2011. In addition to documentary images from his childhood (“Chisholm, Minnesota”) and his portraits of contemporary artists such as Lawrence Weiner, Gabriel Orozco, and Kiki Smith, the book also includes the new landscape series “A Return to Giverny” and Erik’s recent German works, “Tremblant Vielfache.”
And for all you night owls, there’s an afterparty at the Soho Grand from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. It’s sure to be fabulous. Make sure you get that disco nap in!
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