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Aperture Foundation is a nonprofit arts institution, founded in 1952 by Ansel Adams, Minor White, Barbara Morgan,
/ref> Some, like ''Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph'', have been in print for 40 years. Aperture supports the efforts of other non-profit organizations by partnering on books, exhibitions, and educational programming.
In 2005, Aperture’s three-thousand-square-foot gallery opened in New York’s Chelsea art district. Many of the shows travel to venues in the U.S. and abroad. Aperture's Chelsea gallery showcases exhibitions organized by sister institutions.
Aperture has exhibited shows including ''Nazar: Photographs from the Arab World''; ''Joan Fontcuberta: Landscapes Without Memory''; ''William Christenberry, Photographs: 1961–2005''; ''A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, images by Chuck Close'', ''poems by Bob Holman''; ''Lisette Model and Her Successors''; and the Lucie-nominated ''Invasion 68: Prague'', photographs by Josef Koudelka.
Aperture Foundation is a nonprofit arts institution, founded in 1952 by Ansel Adams, Minor White, Barbara Morgan, Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Great Depression, Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administratio ...
, Nancy Newhall
Nancy Wynne Newhall (May 9, 1908 – July 7, 1974) was an American photography critic. She is best known for writing the text to accompany photographs by Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, but was also a widely published writer on photography, cons ...
, Beaumont Newhall, Ernest Louie, Melton Ferris, and Dody Warren. Their vision was to create a forum for fine art photography, a new concept at the time. The first issue of the magazine '' Aperture'' was published in spring 1952 in San Francisco.
In January 2011, Chris Boot
Chris Boot (born 27 May 1960) is a British photography curator, book publisher, and has worked in a variety of other roles related to photography. He was director of London’s Photo Co-op, director of the London and New York offices of Magnum Ph ...
joined the organization as its director. Boot has previously been an independent photobook publisher and worked with Magnum Photos and Phaidon Press. Sarah Meister, curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art from 2009 to 2020, was named as Boot's replacement in the Executive Director position in January 2021, starting in May 2021.
Books
Aperture Foundation is a publisher of photography books, with more than 600 titles in print. Its book publication program began in 1965, with ''Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition'', which became one of its best-selling titles.Aperture.org/ref> Some, like ''Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph'', have been in print for 40 years. Aperture supports the efforts of other non-profit organizations by partnering on books, exhibitions, and educational programming.
Publications
* ''The Golden Age of British Photography, 1839–1900.'' New York: Aperture Foundation, 1984. . *''Masters of Photography: Collector's Set.'' New York: Aperture Foundation, 1997. . *''Crossing Borders: Contemporary Czech and Slovak Photography.'' New York: Aperture Foundation, 1998. . *''Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names'', withOrhan Pamuk
Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three lang ...
New York: Aperture, 2007.
*''Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image: The Photography Workshop Series''. New York, Aperture Foundation, 2014. . Photographs and text by Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb
Rebecca Norris Webb (born 1956) is an American photographer. Originally a poet, her books often combine text and images. An NEA grant recipient, she has work in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Cleveland Museum of Art. ...
, introduction by Teju Cole
Teju Cole (born June 27, 1975) is a Nigerian-American writer, photographer, and art historian. He is the author of a novella ''Every Day Is for the Thief'' (2007), a novel ''Open City'' (2011), an essay collection ''Known and Strange Things'' (20 ...
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*''Larry Fink on Composition and Improvisation: The Photography Workshop Series.'' New York: Aperture Foundation, 2014. . Photographs and text by Larry Fink, introduction by Lisa Kereszi
Lisa Kereszi (born 1973) is an American photographer and professor from Pennsylvania.
Life and work
Kereszi grew up in Pennsylvania where her father owned a junk yard in Trainer and her mother owned and ran an antique store. Kereszi earned a BA ...
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*''Other Rooms.'' New York: Aperture Foundation, 2014. . Photographs by Jo Ann Callis
Jo Ann Callis (born 1940) is an American artist who works with photography and is based in California. Her work is held in various public collections.
Life and work
Callis was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Though she initially pursued a degree at Oh ...
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*''The Bikeriders.'' New York: Aperture Foundation, 2014. . Photographs by Danny Lyon.
*''¡Vámonos! Bernard Plossu in México: 1965-66, 1970, 1974, 1981.'' New York: Aperture Foundation, 2014. . Photographs by Bernard Plossu, edited by Salvador Albiñana and Juan García de Oteyza.
*''The New Black Vanguard'' 2019 by Antwaun Sargent
Aperture/Michael E. Hoffman Award
In 2003, the Foundation instituted the first Aperture/Michael E. Hoffman Award, in memory of Michael E. Hoffman (died 2001), who was Aperture's publisher for 37 years.The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards
The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards is a yearly photography book award that is given jointly by Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation. It is announced at the Paris Photo fair and was established in 2012. The categories are Photography Catalogue of the Year, PhotoBook of the Year and First PhotoBook (with a $10,000 prize).Aperture Portfolio Prize
The Aperture Portfolio Prize is an annual international competition to discover, exhibit, and publish new talents in photography. Winners: * 2006: Hiroshi Watanabe * 2007: Julio Bittencourt * 2008: Michael Corridore * 2009: Alexander Gronsky * 2010: David Favrod * 2011: Sarah Palmer * 2013: Bryan Schutmaat * 2014: Amy Elkins * 2015: Drew Nikonowicz * 2016: Eli Durst * 2017: Natalie Krick * 2018: Ka-Man Tse * 2019: Mark McKnight * 2020: Dannielle Bowman * 2021: Donavon Smallwood * 2022: Felipe Romero BeltránExhibitions
In 2005, Aperture’s three-thousand-square-foot gallery opened in New York’s Chelsea art district. Many of the shows travel to venues in the U.S. and abroad. Aperture's Chelsea gallery showcases exhibitions organized by sister institutions.
Aperture has exhibited shows including ''Nazar: Photographs from the Arab World''; ''Joan Fontcuberta: Landscapes Without Memory''; ''William Christenberry, Photographs: 1961–2005''; ''A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, images by Chuck Close'', ''poems by Bob Holman''; ''Lisette Model and Her Successors''; and the Lucie-nominated ''Invasion 68: Prague'', photographs by Josef Koudelka.
References
External links
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