The International Center of Photography presents HARD COPY NEW YORK, an expanded iteration of Aaron Stern’s ongoing project exploring the contemporary use of the photocopied image. Following previous iterations, including a 2025 show in Los Angeles, the group exhibition uses the visual language of the copy machine to evoke nostalgia for a time of more deliberate picture making.
In our current moment when digital images proliferate, fewer physical copies of images are made or exhibited. Through this show, curators David Campany and Aaron Stern aim to reassert photography's inherent power: its ability to offer a profound, democratic, and tangible experience.
About Aaron Stern
Aaron Stern is a Manhattan-based curator, artist and author working between the Americas and Europe. His photographs, books, writing and curatorial projects have appeared in publications and institutions such as RoseGallery, Webber Gallery, WSA, Magenta Plains, Dashwood Books, Perrotin, Photo Saint Germain, International Center for Photography, Paris Photo, Los Angeles Art Book Fair, Index Art Fair, Purple Magazine, The Paris Review, Vogue, The New York Times, Dazed&Confused, and Interview Magazine.
Takashi Homma, from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, 2023/2024. Photocopy by Aaron Stern, © Takashi Homma