Aperture Foundation is a publisher of photography books, with more than 600 titles in print. Its book publication program began in 1965, with , which became one of its best-selling titles. Some, like , have been in print for 40 years. Aperture supports the efforts of other non-profit organizations by partnering on books, exhibitions, and educational programming.
Selected bibliography
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, with Orhan Pamuk New York: Aperture, 2007.
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.
Other Rooms. New York: Aperture Foundation, 2014.. Photographs by Jo Ann Callis.
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.
Aperture/Michael E. Hoffman Award
In 2003, the Foundation instituted the first Aperture/Michael E. Hoffman Award, in memory of Michael E. Hoffman, who was Aperture's publisher for 37 years.
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.
Exhibitions
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.
Selected exhibitions
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.
