Aperture is pleased to release two new limited-edition photographs by Richard Renaldi in celebration of his publication Manhattan Sunday (2016).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.As 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.”
