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

New book from Aperture making headlines: Paul Fusco: RFK has been featured in Publishers Weekly, The New York Times Magazine, CNN, and FOX News.

Paul Fusco: RFK, published during the fortieth anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination in Los Angeles while campaigning for the Presidential nomination, is the long-awaited follow-up to Fusco’s acclaimed RFK Funeral Train, a body of work heralded as a contemporary classic. This historical new publication features over seventy never-before-seen images, many selected from the untapped treasure trove of slides that comprise the Library of Congress’s Look magazine Collection.

The new book will be published in September. Included are a tribute by Edward M. Kennedy and essays by Evan Thomas, Norman Mailer, and Vicki Goldberg.

Hear Fusco talk about his experience in this slideshow from The New York Times.

The work is now on view at Danziger Projects.

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