About Aperture Foundation
Founded in 1952 by photographers Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Barbara Morgan, and Minor White, historian Beaumont Newhall and writer Nancy Newhall, among others, Aperture began as a periodical dedicated to advancing dialogue about art photography. Since then, Aperture has evolved to become an organization advancing photography in all of its forms, with a comprehensive program of publications, exhibitions, and educational initiatives serving an audience of over one million art and photography enthusiasts worldwide.
Today, our award-winning Aperture magazine reaches thousands of readers across the United States and abroad; our book publication program comprises one of the most extensive libraries in the history of photography with over 460 titles (approximately 130 are still in print); our exhibitions, created to accompany selected book projects, are presented at our New York gallery and at leading art and photography venues worldwide; and our educational programs stimulate discourse on photography in a larger cultural and historic context.
Over the years, many Aperture projects have earned critical acclaim and provided individual artists rare opportunities for international recognition. We have published first books by such luminaries as Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Stephen Shore, and major volumes by Robert Adams, Mary Ellen Mark, Richard Prince, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston. In addition, we have organized hundreds of exhibitions and presented them at a wide range of venues including: The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.; the International Center of Photography in New York; The Photographer's Gallery in the U.K.; and Musee d'Art Americain and Jeu de Paume in France.
Highlights over the past two years include: Shuffle, a monograph by Christian Marclay, who uses a range of media—video, sculpture, installation and performance—to address the ways that music and sound impact our experience of the world; Lisette Model & Her Successors, an exhibition of works by this master of photography and by 13 of her students, which coincided with the reissue of the classic 1979 Aperture monograph, Lisette Model; Paris - New York - Shanghai, a publication and exhibition by Dutch conceptual photographer Hans Eijkelboom, nominee for the 2008 Deutsche Borse Photography Prize; On the Beach by Richard Misrach, a monograph that balances the minutiae of human gesture against the vastness of the sea; Tokyo by Takashi Homma, a publication that deftly captures a portrait of the city that is cinematic and complex through the eyes of this Japanese artist; Invasion 68 by Josef Koudelka, a book and exhibition that features the stirring photographs by the Czech master of The Prague Spring, which were smuggled out of the country during the Soviet-led invasion; and It's Beautiful in Here, Isn't It..., a book and exhibition of works by Luigi Ghirri, the much admired Italian photographer who died in 1992 at the young age of 49.
The Aperture Gallery and bookstore is located at 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY, 10001, and is open Tuesdays–Saturdays from 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. For more information, please call (212) 505-5555 or visit our website at www.aperture.org.
