APERTURE

(H/B) DIANE ARBUS
(...) When Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of 48, she was already a significant influence - even something of a legend - for serious photographers, although only a relatively small number of her most important pictures were widely known at the time. The publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph in 1972 - along with a posthumous retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art - offered the general public its first encounter with the breadth and power of her achievements. The response was unprecedented. The monograph, composed of 80 ph...
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(P/B) PHOTOGRAPHY AFTER FRANK
In Photography After Frank, New York Times writer and former picture editor Philip Gefter presents a page-turning look at contemporary photography, starting with a pivotal moment: Robert Frank's seminal work in the 19505. Charting the medium's trajectory t genres and practices, Gefter postulates that photography post-Frank has created a paradoxical self-consciousness. While the photographic image has brought us to a heightened awareness of the world around us, the constant representation of who we are has conspired against our natural stat...
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(H/B) OTHER AMERICAS
Other Americas, originally published in France in 1986 and designed by Le?lia Wanick Salgado, is Sebastiao Salgado's first book. Upon publication it became an award winning photobook classic, establishing Salgado's reputation as the visionary reportage photographer of his generation. With forty-nine black-and-white photographs taken between 1977 and 1984, Salgado's distilled survey of a continent includes images from Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico. The images range in subject, capturing spiritual and religious practi...
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(P/B) THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S PLAYBOOK
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 playful collection will inspire fresh ways of engaging with photographic process. Inside you will find advice for better shooting and editing, creative ways to start new projects, games and activities, and insight ...
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(H/B) THE MIND'S EYE
Photographs and essays by Henri Cartier-Bresson...
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(H/B) LIFE'S A BEACH
Following on the heels of Martin Parr's limited-edition, album-style presentation of Life's a Beach, released last season, Aperture is delighted to introduce a new beach-bag-size version. Parr has been photographing beaches for many decades, documenting all aspects of them, including close-ups of sunbathers, rambunctious swimmers caught mid-plunge, and the eternal sandy picnic underway. His international career, in fact, could well be traced to the launch of The Last Resort, a 1986 book depicting the seaside resort of New Brighton, near Li...
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(H/B) STONEWORK AND LIME KILNS
Over the course of nearly five decades, Bernd and Hilla Becher documented almost every type of industrial architecture-from water towers and steel mills to gas tanks and grain silos-in Europe and the United States. Whether presenting single shots or their signature typological grids, the Bechers created a photographic testament to the industrial revolution that so emphatically shaped the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At the same time, however, they also captured a much older manufacturing tradition: the quarrying and processing of st...
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(P/B) BENDING THE FRAME
The older paradigm for photojournalists was to simply record events, with the hope - and frequently the expectation - that people and their governments would be moved to respond to the injustices pictured, as witnessed by the impact of certain images during the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War. Given evolving media and political climates, however, including the billions of images now available online from all kinds of sources, the purpose and effectiveness of media, in particular of visual journalism, has been called into question...
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(H/B) DOROTHEA LANGE
The Aperture Masters of Photography Series has become a touchstone of Aperture's longstanding commitment to introducing the history and art of photography to a broader public. Each volume provides an ongoing comprehensive view of the artists who have helped shape the medium. Initially presented as the History of Photography Series in 1976, the first volume featured Henri Cartier-Bresson and was edited by legendary French publisher Robert Delpire, who cofounded the series with Aperture's own Michael Hoffman. Twenty volumes have been publish...
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(H/B) HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: BLACK BOX
Hiroshi Sugimoto has explored ideas of time, empiricism, and metaphysics through a surreal and formalistic approach since the 1970s. A self-described "habitual self-interlocutor," Sugimoto uses the camera as a bridge between abstract questions and the quiet, comical nature of modern everyday life. Whether formally photographing Madame Tussauds wax figures and the wildlife scenes at the American Museum of Natural History, or opening the lens of his 8-by-10 camera to capture a two-hour-long film in one exposure, he explores themes of consume...
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(P/B) APERTURE CONVERSATIONS
Why did Henri Cartier-Bresson nearly have a posthumous exhibition while still alive? What led Stephen Shore to work with color? Why was Sophie Calle accused of stealing Vermeer's The Concert? And what is Susan Meiselas's take on Instagram and the future of online storytelling? Aperture Conversations presents a selection of interviews pulled from Aperture's publishing history, highlighting critical dialogue between photographers, esteemed critics, curators, editors, and artists from 1985 to the present day. Emerging talent along with well-...
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(H/B) PROVINCETOWN
The beach town of Provincetown, Massachusetts, has long been defined by outsiders. A safe haven for the queer community and a getaway for artists, it is a place defined by openness and tolerance. Throughout the late 1970s and early '80s Joel Meyerowitz spent his summers there, roaming the seaside with an 8-by-10 camera, making exquisite, sharply observed portraits of families, couples, children, artists, and other denizens of the progressive community. A cast of characters appear and reappear from season to season against a picturesque bac...
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(H/B) HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
Aperture is pleased to present the elegantly updated and refreshed Henri Cartier-Bresson edition of the Aperture Masters of Photography Series. With an introduction by notable curator Clement Cheroux, this edition includes new, image-by-image commentary and a chronology of this influential and iconic artist's life. Initially presented as the History of Photography Series in 1976, the first volume of the Masters of Photography Series featured Cartier-Bresson and was edited by legendary French publisher Robert Delpire, who cofounded the seri...
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(H/B) THE OPEN ROAD
The road trip is an enduring symbol in American culture. Ever since cars became widely available, the road stretching over the horizon has represented a sense of possibility and freedom, discovery and escape - a place to get lost and find yourself in the process. The American road trip has appeared prominently in literature, music, and movies, but it has had an especially powerful influence on photography. As photographers have embarked on trips across the United States with the express purpose of making work, they have created some of the...
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(H/B) SEEING THINGS
Aimed at children between the ages of nine and twelve, Seeing Things is a wonderful introduction to photography that asks how photographers transform ordinary things into meaningful moments. In this book, acclaimed and beloved photographer Joel Meyerowitz takes readers on a journey through the power and magic of photography: its abilities to freeze time, tell a story, combine several layers into one frame, and record life's fleeting and beautiful moments. The book features the work of masters such as William Eggleston, Mary Ellen Mark, Hel...
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(H/B) BRUCE DAVIDSON: SURVEY
Bruce Davidson is a pioneer of social documentary photography. He began taking photographs at the age of ten and continued to develop his passion at Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University. Later called upon for military service, Davidson met Henri Cartier-Bresson in France and was introduced to Magnum Photos. In his work, Davidson prizes his relationship to the subject above all else. From his profound documentation of the civil rights movement to his in-depth study of one derelict block in Harlem, he has immersed himself fu...
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(H/B) PAUL STRAND
The Aperture Masters of Photography Series has become a touchstone of Aperture's longstanding commitment to introducing the history and art of photography to a broader public. Each volume provides an ongoing comprehensive view of the artists who have helped shape the medium. Initially presented as the History of Photography Series in 1976, the first volume featured Henri Cartier-Bresson and was edited by legendary French publisher Robert Delpire, who cofounded the series with Aperture's own Michael Hoffman. Twenty volumes have been publish...
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(P/B) IN OUR OWN IMAGE
In Our Own Image by Fred Ritchin presciently outlined, twenty years ago, before the era of digital cameras, cell phones, Photoshop, and the World Wide Web, many of the ways in which the digital age would transform society. This groundbreaking book was the first to address "the coming revolution in photography" and ask pointed and sometimes chilling questions that are increasingly relevant today, including whether democracy can survive the erosion of media accelerated by facile use of digital means. By the time a second edition was publishe...
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(H/B) FLORENCE HENRI
Florence Henri's work occupied a central place in the world of avant-garde photography in the late 1920s, and this survey pays homage to her essential, but under-recognized contribution. This comprehensive publication offers an unprecedented overview of Henri's work, produced between 1927 and 1940, and includes her iconic self-portraits and still lifes as well as lesser-known portraits of her contemporaries, photomontages, collages, and documentary work. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) IMMEDIATE FAMILY
These are photographs of my children... Many of these pictures are intimate, some are fictions and some are fantastic, but most are of ordinary things every mother has seen. I take pictures when they are bloodied or sick or naked or angry. They dress up, they pout and posture, they paint their bodies; they dive like otters in the dark river....
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