Last night, Aperture hosted a party for a first look at our diverse and compelling list of Fall 2008 titles and a sneak preview of Spring 2009. See who joined in celebrating the upcoming season of Aperture books and limited-edition photographs.

Photographer Caroline Stern, Aperture magazine managing editor Mike Famighetti, photographer Robin Schwartz (featured in one of the upcoming volumes of Tiny Vices), Don Burmeister from Safe-T Gallery, and Michael Kahn

Photographers Richard Renaldi and Seth Boyd; Sarah Coleman from PDN

Ruben Natal-San Miguel, collector and blogger showing his friends the incredible upcoming book from photographer Jonas Bendiksen, The Places We Live. Check out the double gate-folds!

Aperture publicist Christina Caputo, Aperture’s Chairman of the Board, Celso Golzales-Falla, Magnum photographer Paul Fusco of the upcoming release Paul Fusco: RFK

Andrea Smith, Aperture’s Director of Communications talks with artists Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz of the upcoming release Travelers

Peggy Roalf of the D.A.R.T. newsletter, photographer Elena Dorfman and Lesley A. Martin, Aperture publisher

Aperture artist and Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen wins $50,000 National Geographic Magazine Grant for Photography!

Aperture is please to have published both Satellites and his new upcoming monograph The Places We Live, a project Bendiksen worked on from 2005 to 2007 documenting life in the slums of four different cities: Nairobi, Kenya; Mumbai, India; Caracas, Venezuela; and Jakarta, Indonesia.

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