Aperture is a not-for-profit foundation that connects the photo community and its audiences with the most inspiring work.
Created in 1952 by photographers and writers as “common ground for the advancement of photography,” Aperture produces, publishes, and presents each year a program of photography projects, locally in New York and internationally: four issues of Aperture magazine, the flagship of their commitment to the most inspiring photography and writing on photography, and a dozen new photobooks, and books about photography.
The long list of photographers they've published include Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, William Eggleston, Martin Parr, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore, Alec Soth ... and many more !
Presentation by Aperture: " Part memoir, part document of the DIY, punk-infused subculture of skateboarding as it came of age in the 1990s and early 2000s, Ed Templeton's Wires Crossed pulses with the raw, combustive energy of Templeton's image-making from the last twenty-plus years. Illustrated by photographs, collages, texts, maps, and other ephemera...
.Sold out.Presentation by Aperture: "Cathedral of the Pines presents Gregory Crewdson’s first new body of work in over five years. The series marks a return to Crewdson’s classic style of storytelling via the single image, using light and color to create newly intimate, psychologically charged imagery. This body of work marks a time of transition for the...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "British photographer Edmund Clark and counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black have assembled photographs and documents that confront the nature of contemporary warfare and the invisible mechanisms of state control. From George W. Bush’s 2001 declaration of the “war on terror” until 2008, an unknown number of people...
Publisher's presentation : "An economic and cultural revolution has shaken the photobook world in the last five years: self-publishing. An army of photographers operating as publishers have had an instrumental role in today’s photobook renaissance. This book offers a do-it-yourself manual and a survey of key examples of self-published success stories, as...
Publisher's presentation : "The work Range examines the analog history of photography within the digital torrent that is its current technological manifestation. It is the latest iteration of Umbrico's larger project Moving Mountains, in which the artist rephotographs a selection of canonical masters' photographs of mountains —the oldest and seemingly...
Photographer's Playbook - 307 Assignments...
Presentation by Aperture: "The Photographer’s Playbook features photography assignments, as well as ideas, stories, and anecdotes from many of the world’s most talented photographers and photography professionals. Whether you’re looking for exercises to improve your craft—alone or in a group—or you’re interested in learning more about the medium, this...
Probably one of the most discussed series and book of this Spring 2014 (with articles in Time Light Box, Lens Culture, The New Yorker, The Huffington Post, etc.), Touching Strangers is a really powerful body of work.Richard Renaldi worked from a very simple idea: asking random people, passerbys or else, to pose together for a portrait, touching one...
.Copy sold.Adapted from the presentation of the TKY event on the Aperture website: "«PRINTING SHOW» was a recreation of Daido Moriyama’s 1974 performance of the same name. [...] Visitors to the gallery found the photographer stationed at a photocopy machine duplicating his photographic prints. As was done forty years before, these photocopied sheets were...
.The very last copy!.Ce livre, dont le titre complet est The Sochi Project - An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus, est un travail documentaire de plusieurs années sur l'évolution de Sochi et sa région après l'obtention de l'organisation des Jeux Olympiques d'hiver de 2014 : les aspects sociaux, environnementaux, politiques sont présentés en texte...