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Contents About Aperture Foundation
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Letter from the Executive Director
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Aperture Magazine 2019
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Aperture Magazine Backlist
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New and Recently Published Books
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Books with Touring Exhibitions
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Back in Stock
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Children’s Books
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Selected Classics
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How to Order
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Cover: Matthew Porter, Airport Road, 2009 (detail). © Matthew Porter; from Matthew Porter: The Heights (see pages 18–19)
About Aperture Foundation A not-for-profit multi-platform photography publisher and center for the photo community, Aperture connects the photo community and its audiences with the most inspiring work, the sharpest ideas, and with each other—in print, in person, and online. From our base in New York, each year we produce, publish, and present a program of photography projects, locally and internationally, that includes: 4 issues of Aperture magazine
Limited-edition prints
20 new books
Talks, workshops, and book signings, every week
10 exhibitions at Aperture Gallery 7 exhibitions on tour 2 issues of The PhotoBook Review
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Aperture Portfolio Prize Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards Aperture Summer Open Exhibition
Welcome to Aperture 2019 In December 1968, while Apollo 8 orbited the moon, astronaut Bill Anders took the photograph we know as Earthrise. This striking and beautiful image is arguably the most influential photograph ever taken. It changed our perspective on the world, allowing us for the first time to see it as a singular, fragile object. It features in our Spring lead title, Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe, and serves to illustrate an ongoing thread of Aperture’s programs: how photographs shift our consciousness, and allow us to see things from a new perspective. The Spring 2019 issue of Aperture magazine, Earth, also engages with images of our planet, taking a fresh look at how photographers are informed by environmental ideals, and conjure the sublime. The summer issue Orlando, meanwhile, guest-edited by Tilda Swinton, addresses photography’s contribution to the creation of post-binary, postgender consciousness, in the tradition of Virginia Woolf. And Kwame Brathwaite’s photographs from the late sixties and early seventies are presented for the first time in book form—Black Is Beautiful, a big idea central to the civil rights movement that continues to echo today, which Brathwaite formulated and promoted through his work as a fashion photographer. Skip to the present, and another first book, Ethan James Green’s Young New York, assertively defines new youth identities, emerging at the front lines of art, fashion, and urban experience. Other new Aperture books illuminate how individual artists are advancing the language of photography: The Heights features Matthew Porter’s thrilling and playful flying car series; Italian Views, a gorgeous new body of work by Gail Albert Halaban (a follow-up to her successful Paris Views), in which she stages scenes visible through a window; and I Am, the first survey of the work of radical fashion photographer Erwin Olaf. Whether motivating social, artistic, or environmental consciousness, all our publications will inspire readers’ journeys in photography. —Chris Boot, Executive Director
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The Magazine of Photography and Ideas
Earth
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Earth will focus on our relationship with the natural world, during a moment of continued debate about global warming and extreme weather, and as the vulnerability of our natural environment is underscored each day. As we enter the anthropocene, the term used by scientists to describe an age when human activity has the greatest impact on the earth, what is the role of the artist and culture in addressing this crisis? How do photographers honor and draw inspiration from the natural world? How do aesthetics shape our understanding of ecological concerns?
Guest-edited by Tilda Swinton
Aperture 234: Spring 2019 9!¼ × 12 in. (23.5 × 30.5 cm) 136 pages Illustrated throughout Paperback ISBN 978-1-59711-460-8 US $24.95 / CDN $27.50 / UK £19.95
Aperture 235: Summer 2019 9!¼ × 12 in. (23.5 × 30.5 cm) 136 pages Illustrated throughout Paperback ISBN 978-1-59711-461-5 US $24.95 / CDN $27.50 / UK £19.95
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Aperture magazine, winner of a 2018 National Magazine Award for General Exellence, is an essential guide to the art and phenomenon of photography, that combines the smartest writing with beautifully reproduced portfolios. Published quarterly, each issue focuses on a major theme in contemporary photography, and is required reading for everyone interested in understanding where photography is heading. With fresh perspectives by leading writers and thinkers, Aperture magazine makes new ideas in photography accessible to the photographer, student, and the culturally curious alike.
The iconic actor and cultural figure Tilda Swinton guest-edits the Orlando issue of Aperture, which draws upon Virginia Woolf’s classic 1928 novel to offer a collection of images and writings that celebrate gender fluidity, curiosity, and non-binary ways of being.
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In relationships and communities, an expanding vision of what families can be
A look at the dynamic photography scene in a city of images
Aperture 233: Winter 2018 Family ISBN 978-1-59711-436-3
Aperture 232: Fall 2018 Los Angeles ISBN 978-1-59711-435-6
Leading filmmakers on photography and the role of cinema for influential artists
How photographs portray the crisis of incarceration in the US
Transgender lives, communities, and histories in images
Aperture 231: Summer 2018 Film & Foto ISBN 978-1-59711-434-9
Aperture 230: Spring 2018 Prison Nation ISBN 978-1-59711-433-2
Aperture 229: Winter 2017 Future Gender ISBN 978-1-59711-421-9
Style politics and sartorial exuberance in Harlem, Lagos, Berlin, and beyond
The biennials, festivals, and educational spaces changing the shape of African photography
An urgent reflection on photography, labor, and community
Aperture 228: Fall 2017 Elements of Style ISBN 978-1-59711-420-2
Aperture 227: Summer 2017 Platform Africa ISBN 978-1-59711-419-6
Aperture 226: Spring 2017 American Destiny ISBN 978-1-59711-418-9
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Guest-edited by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Vision & Justice addresses the role of photography in the African American experience.
Cover image: Awol Erizku
“The stunning Aperture magazine edition celebrates a variety of current photographers who are reframing blackness and radically restructuring the contemporary perception of it.”
Cover image: Richard Avedon
Cover option 1: Aperture 223: Summer 2016 Vision & Justice ISBN 978-1-59711-410-3
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Highlights how photography has shaped feminism as much as how feminism has shaped photography
A dynamic mix of photographic work exploring questions of queer identity
Aperture 225: Winter 2016 On Feminism ISBN 978-1-59711-367-0
Aperture 218: Spring 2015 Queer ISBN 978-1-59711-321-2
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How socially minded storytellers adapt to a new terrain of image making Aperture 214: Spring 2014 Documentary, Expanded ISBN 978-1-59711-280-2
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Aperture 217: Winter 2014 Lit. ISBN 978-1-59711-283-3
Aperture 215: Summer 2014 The São Paulo Issue ISBN 978-1-59711-281-9
Voyages, journeys, and the captivating spell
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Aperture 221: Winter 2015 Performance ISBN 978-1-59711-324-3
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Aperture 212: Fall 2013 Playtime ISBN 978-1-59711-234-5
Aperture 211: Summer 2013 Curiosity ISBN 978-1-59711-233-8
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New and Recently Published Books
Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe
8 5/16 × 10 in. (21.1 × 25.4 cm) 224 pages 300-plus black-and-white and four-color images Hardcover ISBN 978-1-59711-447-9 US $39.95 / CDN $55.00 / UK £30.00 May 2019
By Marvin Heiferman • • •
Photography’s critical role in science explained Subjects range from facial recognition to outer space For everyone curious about the impact of photography on our lives
Copublished by Aperture and University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Marvin Heiferman creates projects about photography and visual culture for institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Museum of Modern Art, International Center of Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, and New Museum, New York; and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. He is the author/editor of over two dozen books, including Photography Changes Everything (Aperture/Smithsonian, 2012).
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Seeing Science offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection of essays and pictures about photography’s role in visualizing science and building human knowledge—from micro to macro levels and everything in between. Photography and science have long been intertwined, helping to shape the way we look at the world. Scientists use photography as a way to gather information, explore, and learn, but just as important, photography is also used to promote scientific advances and has long served as an interface between the sciences and the public. Science is less an edifice of facts than a process of discovery and inquiry. In this way, it is not dissimilar to art; artists have engaged with some of the same scientific challenges and principles, using photography to imagine the world differently and present us with new experiences and ways of seeing. This volume presents both perspectives, exploring how science is made perceptible, featuring over three hundred images and sixty short texts.
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Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful
8 ½ × 10 ½ in. (21.6 × 27 cm) 144 pages 80 black-and-white and fourcolor images Hardcover with jacket ISBN 978-1-59711-443-1 US $40.00 / CDN $55.00 / UK £30.00 May 2019 Limited-edition available
Photographs and introduction by Kwame Brathwaite Essays by Tanisha C. Ford and Deborah Willis • • •
Powerful portraits from the 1960s “Black Is Beautiful” movement Accessible fusion of fashion, art, and social history The first book on this influential African American photographer, now being widely recognized
In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used his photography to popularize the political slogan “Black Is Beautiful.” This monograph—the first ever dedicated to Brathwaite’s remarkable career—tells the story of a key, but under-recognized, figure of the second Harlem Renaissance. From stunning studio portraits of the Grandassa Models to behind-the-scenes images of Harlem’s artistic community, including Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln, and Miles Davis, this book offers a long-overdue exploration of Brathwaite’s life and work. In addition, a touring retrospective of Brathwaite’s work will begin in May 2019. Kwame Brathwaite (born in Brooklyn, 1938) is represented by Philip Martin in Los Angeles. Recent acquirers of his work include the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Exhibition Schedule Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, May 23– September 1, 2019 Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, June 26– September 6, 2020
Tanisha C. Ford is associate professor of Africana studies and history at the University of Delaware and author of Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul (2015). Deborah Willis is an award-winning author and professor and chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
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Ethan James Green: Young New York
8 ¼ × 10 ¼ in. (21 × 26 cm) 128 pages 55 duotone images Hardcover ISBN 978-1-59711-454-7 US $45.00 / CDN $60.00 / UK £35.00 April 2019 Limited-edition available
Foreword by Hari Nef Essay by Michael Schulman • • •
Classical black-and-white portraits envision the queer youth of New York Hot art and fashion photographer redefines beauty and the human family Establishes Green as a prominent artist for a new generation
Young New York, Ethan James Green’s first monograph, presents a selection of striking portraits of New York’s millennial scene-makers, a gloriously diverse cast of models, artists, nightlife icons, queer youth, and gender binary–flouting muses of the fashion world and beyond. Although he often shoots on commission for fashion brands and magazines, for Young New York, Green photographed his close friends and community for more than three years, and his humanist approach transcends the trends of the moment. Young New York promises to announce a bright young talent who is redefining beauty and identity for a new generation. Ethan James Green (born in Caledonia, Michigan, 1990) has been commissioned by publications such as Another Man, Dazed & Confused, Re-Edition, Love Magazine, i-D, Arena Homme +, Vogue Italia, Vogue Paris, W, and labels, including Alexander McQueen, Miu Miu, and Prada. His work was featured in and on the cover of Aperture’s Winter 2017 issue, Future Gender. Hari Nef is an actress, model, and writer based in Los Angeles. Michael Schulman is an arts editor and regular contributor to the New Yorker, and the author of Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep (2016).
“In Ethan’s world, the kids who inspire him ought to be (and are) the subjects of his work. Ethan is an artist among so-called image makers.” –Hari Nef
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Gail Albert Halaban: Italian Views
11 ½ × 14 in. (28.6 × 35.6 cm) 128 pages 65 four-color images Clothbound ISBN 978-1-59711-451-6 US $75.00 / CDN $100.00 / UK £60.00 April 2019 Limited-edition available
Photographs and texts by Gail Albert Halaban Essay by Francine Prose • • •
Timeless and contemporary, a romantic vision of Italy Highly anticipated new work by a popular artist A perfect coffee-table gift for lovers of Italy and photography
Italian Views is a continuation of Gail Albert Halaban’s series Out My Window, featuring intimate domestic portraits against the cinematic backdrop of the city. Albert Halaban works with local residents to stage and collaborate on each portrait, and through her lens, the viewer is welcomed into the private lives of ordinary Italian people. Paired with the photographs are short vignettes by the artist, imagining what the neighbors might see of her subjects on a daily basis, and Francine Prose contributes a meditative essay discussing the curious thrill of being a viewer. Gail Albert Halaban (born in Washington, DC, 1970) received an MFA in photography from Yale University. She has taught at the Pasadena Art Center, International Center of Photography, and Yale, and has been included in both group and solo exhibitions internationally. Her previous books include Out My Window (2012) and Gail Albert Halaban: Paris Views (Aperture, 2014). Francine Prose is the author of more than twenty books, including the novels My New American Life (2011), Goldengrove (2008), A Changed Man (2005), and Blue Angel (2000), which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award.
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Matthew Porter: The Heights
10 ¾ × 12 in. (27.3 × 30.5 cm) 56 pages 25 four-color images Paperback with jacket ISBN 978-1-59711-457-8 US $50.00 / CDN $65.00 / UK £40.00 April 2019 Limited-edition available
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Porter’s popular “flying cars” series, now in book form Fun artist’s book, where Stephen Shore meets Steve McQueen
Matthew Porter presents a portfolio of twenty-five images of old-school cars, captured in midair as they careen over city streets and highway intersections. Each photograph is a freeze-frame—a hypothetical film still from a pulp-fiction chase scene. The photographs, known popularly as the “flying car” series, are a hybrid of hyperreality and studied, topographic description, part bittersweet nostalgia and part ironic reinvention of a classic American trope. Rachel Kushner contributes an original piece of writing that riffs on the aesthetic and aspirational nature of the American car. Matthew Porter (born in State College, Pennsylvania, 1975) is a graduate of Bard College and of the ICP-Bard MFA Program in Advanced Photographic Studies, New York. His work was included in Photography Is Magic (Aperture, 2015), and his first book, Archipelago, was published in 2015. Porter’s work is represented by M+B, Los Angeles, and Invisible-Exports, New York.
“The photographs delight and mystify.” –New York Times
Rachel Kushner’s titles include Telex from Cuba (2008), The Flamethrowers (2013), and most recently, The Mars Room (2018). She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013.
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Erwin Olaf: I Am
9 × 11 ½ in. (22.9 × 29.2 cm) 356 pages 225 four-color and blackand-white images Clothbound ISBN 978-1-59711-466-0 US $75.00 / CDN $100.00 / UK £55.00 January 2019 Rights: World excluding Belgium and the Netherlands
Essays by Mattie Boom, W.M. Hunt, Wim van Sinderen, and Laura Stamps Commentary by Erwin Olaf In honor of Erwin Olaf’s sixtieth birthday, Erwin Olaf: I Am presents the first comprehensive survey of his work, bringing together his earliest images in black and white with his nowiconic color work, including selections from his most recent and heretofore unpublished series shot in Shanghai. This chronological presentation traces the evolution of the artist from cheeky provocateur to royal portraitist, as well as the refinement of his unique vision and stylistic panache over the last four decades. The book is published to accompany the largest retrospective of his work to date, a multiple-venue show that will encompass installations at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Gemeentemuseum Den Haag; and Fotomuseum Den Haag.
Exhibition Schedule Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, February–June 2019 Fotomuseum Den Haag, February–June 2019 Shanghai Center of Photography (SCôP), March–May 2019 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, July–September 2019
Erwin Olaf (born in Hilversum, the Netherlands, 1959) is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Johannes Vermeer Award (2011), a Lucie Award (2008), and Photographer of the Year in the International Color Awards (2006). Among other accolades, Olaf received the commission to design the new national side of the Dutch Euro, launched in 2013. In 2008 and 2014 Aperture published volumes one and two of Olaf’s self-titled monograph. Mattie Boom is curator of photography at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; W.M. Hunt is a photography collector, curator, and consultant based in New York City; Laura Stamps is curator and conservator of modern and contemporary art at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag; Wim van Sinderen is founding member and senior curator at the Fotomuseum Den Haag, as well as conservator of the photography collection at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.
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Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph
11 5/8 × 13 ¾ in. (29.7 × 35 cm) 104 pages 40 four-color images Clothbound ISBN 978-1-59711-422-6 US $75.00 / CDN $100.00 / UK £60.00 September 2018 LImited-edition available
Essay by Zadie Smith Interview by Arthur Jafa • • •
A landmark first book by a powerful and original voice in photography An exquisitely reproduced, radical vision of America and the African diaspora Invites comparison to masterworks of Diane Arbus, Jeff Wall, and Carrie Mae Weems
Deana Lawson is one of the most compelling photographers of her generation. Using medium and large-format cameras, Lawson works with models she meets in the United States and on travels in the Caribbean and Africa to construct arresting, highly structured, and deliberately theatrical scenes. The body— often nude—is central. Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph features forty beautifully reproduced photographs, an essay by the acclaimed writer Zadie Smith, and an expansive conversation with the filmmaker Arthur Jafa. Deana Lawson (born in Rochester, New York, 1979) is assistant professor in visual arts at Princeton University. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Zadie Smith is the author of acclaimed novels, including White Teeth (2001) and Swing Time (2016), and essay collections Changing My Mind (2010) and Feel Free (2018). Arthur Jafa’s work includes Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death (2017) and Dreams Are Colder Than Death (2014).
“Outside a Lawson portrait you might be working three jobs, struggling. But inside her frame you are beautiful, imperious, unbroken, unfallen.” –Zadie Smith
“Splendid, essential, and long overdue.” –Bookforum
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Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal
9!½ × 11!½ in. (24.1 × 29.2 cm) 268 pages 265 black-and-white and four-color images Clothbound ISBN 978-1-59711-448-6 US $65.00 / CDN $88.00 / UK £50.00 November 2018 Limited-edition available
Texts by Julia Dolan, Sara Krajewski, and Sarah Elizabeth Lewis Interview by Kellie Jones • • •
The first in-depth overview of this influential artist’s work Timely and provocative survey that speaks directly to today’s most pressing social issues Pop-inflected, smart, and compelling art that crosses genres and disciplines
Copublished by Aperture and Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal is the first indepth survey of the artist’s prolific interdisciplinary career, from his earliest images to his recent photo-conceptualist works. At the core of Hank Willis Thomas’s practice is his ability to parse and critically dissect the flow of images that comprises American culture, and to do so with particular attention to race, gender, and cultural identity.
Exhibition Schedule Portland Art Museum, Oregon, October 2019–January 2020 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, February–April 2020 Cincinnati Art Museum, July–September 2020
Hank Willis Thomas (born in Plainfield, New Jersey, 1976) received his BFA from New York University and an MFA in photography and an MA in visual criticism from California College of the Arts. His first monograph, Pitch Blackness, was published by Aperture in 2008. In 2017, Thomas received the Soros Equality Fellowship and AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize. Thomas is a member of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York.
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Julia Dolan is the Minor White Curator of Photography at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Sara Krajewski is the Robert and Mercedes Eicholz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Sarah Elizabeth Lewis is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and the author of The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery (2014); Kellie Jones is professor in the department of Art History and Archaeology and a fellow at the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University.
“Hank Willis Thomas provokes my mind the way I want it to be provoked right now.” –Alicia Keys
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Judy Glickman Lauder: Beyond the Shadows: The Holocaust and the Danish Exception
9!½ × 11!¾ in. (24.1 × 30 cm) 160 pages 85 duotone images Clothbound with jacket ISBN 978-1-59711-449-3 US $50.00 / CDN $67.50 / UK £40.00 September 2018
Photographs and text by Judy Glickman Lauder Texts by Elie Wiesel, Michael Berenbaum, and Judith S. Goldstein • • •
Important new contribution to Holocaust literature Features an unpublished original text by Elie Wiesel Published on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the rescue of Denmark’s Jews during WWII
The extraordinary experiences of ordinary people—their suffering and their unimaginable bravery—are the subject of Judy Glickman Lauder’s remarkable photographs. Beyond the Shadows responds to the world’s looking the other way as the Nazis took power and their hate-fueled nationalism steadily turned to mass murder. In the context of the horror of the Holocaust, it also tells the uplifting story of how the citizens and leadership of Denmark, under occupation and at tremendous risk to themselves, defied the Third Reich to transport the country’s Jews to safety in Sweden. Over the past thirty years Glickman Lauder has captured the intensity of death camps in Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia in dark and expressive photographs, telling of a world turned upside down, and, in contrast, the redemptive and uplifting story of the “Danish exception.” Judy Glickman Lauder is a photographer, humanitarian, and philanthropist. Her books include Upon Reflection: Photographs by Judy Ellis Glickman (2012), as well as a book on the work of her father, For the Love of It: The Photography of Irving Bennett Ellis (2008). Elie Wiesel received the Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement in 1985 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986; Michael Berenbaum is the director of the Sigi Ziering Institute, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, and a professor of Jewish studies at the American Jewish University; Judith S. Goldstein holds a PhD in history from Columbia University, and in 1997, she founded the international educational organization Humanity in Action.
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Chloe Dewe Mathews: Caspian: The Elements
7!½ × 10 in. (19 × 26 cm) 216 pages 120 four-color images Clothbound with jacket ISBN 978-1-59711-444-8 US $65.00 / CDN $88.00 / UK £50.00 October 2018 Limited-edition available
Essays by Morad Montazami, Sean O’Hagan, and Arnold van Bruggen • • •
Compelling chronicle of the Caspian region by a bright new talent in photography Intimate portraits and dramatic landscapes from Russia to Iran Innovative social documentary project, supported by Harvard’s Gardner Fellowship
Caspian: The Elements is Chloe Dewe Mathews’s record of years spent roaming the borderlands of the Caspian Sea. In a resource-rich region roiled by contested geopolitics, Dewe Mathews found that elemental materials like oil, salt, and water are also involved in the mystical, practical, artistic, religious, and therapeutic aspects of daily life. In Caspian: The Elements, a series of powerful visual narratives explore the deep links between people and their enigmatic and coveted landscapes. Chloe Dewe Mathews (born in London, 1982) is the winner of the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and her work has been exhibited at Tate Modern, London; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany.
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Morad Montazami is adjunct research curator at Tate Modern, London, for the Middle East and North Africa, and the director of Zâman Books; Sean O’Hagan writes about photography for the Guardian and the Observer; Arnold van Bruggen is cofounder of Prospektor, a documentary production company, and is the coauthor with Rob Hornstra of The Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus (Aperture, 2013).
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Exhibition Schedule Aperture Gallery, New York, October 25–November 30, 2018 Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University, April 27, 2019–January 5, 2020
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Picturing America’s National Parks By Jamie M. Allen • • •
Celebrates one hundred years of America’s National Parks in breathtaking photographs A photography book for everyone interested in nature and the story of America Readers are guided through the photographs with expert, accessible commentary
Picturing America’s National Parks brings together some of the finest landscape photography in the history of the medium, from America’s most magnificent and sacred environments. Photography has played an integral role in both the formation of the National Parks and in the depiction of America itself. This volume delights readers with stunning photographs of the best American landscapes and pays homage to a practice that has defined the way we see America, particularly the American West. Jamie M. Allen is associate curator in the department of photography at George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York. Allen’s work at the Eastman Museum focuses on exhibition development and care of the collection. She is the coauthor of The Photographer in the Garden (Aperture, 2017).
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9!5/8 × 11!3/8 in. (24.5 × 29 cm) 128 pages 120 black-and-white and four-color images Hardcover with jacket ISBN 978-1-59711-452-3 US $35.00 / CDN $47.00 / UK £25.00 October 2018 Copublished by Aperture and George Eastman Museum
“This book shows how photography not only helped shape the national park system, by encouraging tourists to visit, but also had a very real impact on the creation of it.” —Mother Jones
Fall 2018
Walter Chandoha: The Cat Photographer
7!¼ × 10 in. (18.4 × 25.4 cm) 112 pages 50 four-color and 5 halftone illustrations Hardcover with jacket ISBN 978-1-59711-453-0 US $17.95 / CDN $24.50 / UK £12.95 October 2018 Limited-edition print available
Interview by David La Spina and Brittany Hudak • • •
The best work by the master of cat photography, now in his late nineties Playful, fun, and cute—the perfect gift for cat lovers of all ages Vintage work that predates the internet cat craze
Walter Chandoha is a master within the genre of commercial animal photography. His photographs of cats in particular have appeared in the pages of National Geographic and Life magazine, as well as been absorbed into the public subconscious via posters, pet-food packaging, T-shirts, and other uses. This is a fun book for all ages, and offers insight into the unique career of a successful photographer who carved out his own niche within his field. The internet is awash with cat pictures, and Chandoha’s images might be seen as the forefather of them all.
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David La Spina is a photographer and cofounder of Roman Numerals press. Brittany Hudak is a PhD candidate in the joint program of art history at the Cleveland Museum of Art and Case Western Reserve University.
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Walter Chandoha (born in Bayonne, New Jersey, 1920) is a veteran photographer and writer who has worked as a professional freelancer for over forty years. His photographs have appeared on over three hundred magazine covers; in thousands of advertisements for various companies, from small businesses to the Fortune 500; in numerous book publications; and on posters, billboards, various printed matter, and even credit cards.
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Books with Touring Exhibitions Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography By Susan Bright
Exhibition Schedule • FOAM Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, December 2018– March 2019 • C/O Berlin, June–September 2019 • Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden, February 21– May 3, 2020 • The Photographers’ Gallery, London, October 2019–January 2020
9!½ × 11!½ in. (24.1 × 29 cm) 320 pages 250 black-and-white and four-color images Hardcover with tip-on ISBN 978-1-59711-361-8 US $60.00 / CDN $80.95 / UK £45.00 Limited-edition print available
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Interest in both food photography and food as a subject has risen in recent years, and Feast for the Eyes is the first book to cover food photography’s rich history—not only in fine art photography, but also in crossover genres such as commercial and scientific photography and photojournalism. Susan Bright is a curator and writer. Books she has authored include the popular survey Art Photography Now (Aperture, 2005) and, most recently, Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood (2013). She cocurated How We Are: Photographing Britain (2007) at Tate Modern and Face of Fashion (2007) at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Peter Hujar: Speed of Life
Texts by Philip Gefter, Joel Smith, and Steve Turtell Chronology and bibliography by Joel Smith and Martha Scott Burton Exhibition Schedule • Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California, July 11–October 7, 2018 • Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, February 2– April 28, 2019 Peter Hujar was an influential figure of the downtown New York scene of the 1970s and ’80s, most well-known for his photographs of male nudes, and his portraits of New York City’s artists, musicians, writers, and performers. Peter Hujar: Speed of Life provides a thorough history of Hujar’s life and artistic practice. Peter Hujar (born in 1934, Trenton, New Jersey) died of AIDS in 1987, leaving behind a complex and profound body of photographs. Since his death his work has been the subject of major retrospectives and is included in permanent collections around the world. Joel Smith is the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York; Philip Gefter is the author of Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe (2014) and Photography After Frank (Aperture, 2009); Steve Turtell is a poet and the author of Letter to Frank O’Hara (2011); Martha Scott Burton is a photographer and the founder and editor of Turtledove Press. [!30!]
9!½ × 11 in. (24.1 × 27.9 cm) 248 pages 160 black-and-white images and 71 essay illustrations Hardcover ISBN 978-1-59711-414-1 US $50.00 / CDN $67.95 / UK £40.00 Copublished by Aperture and Fundación MAPFRE
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Muse: Photographs by Mickalene Thomas Essay by Jennifer Blessing Tête-à-tête by Mickalene Thomas Conversation with Carrie Mae Weems
10 × 13 in. (25.4 × 33 cm) 156 pages 85 four-color and duotone images Clothbound ISBN 978-1-59711-314-4 US $65.00 / CDN $89.95 / UK £40.00
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Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-à-tête Exhibition Schedule • Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, July 14–September 30, 2018 • Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, October 20, 2018–January 13, 2019
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The first volume to gather Thomas’s photographic portraits and staged scenes, which reflect a very personal community of inspiration—a collection of muses that includes herself, her mother, and her friends and lovers. Mickalene Thomas (born in Camden, New Jersey, 1971) earned her BFA in painting at Pratt Institute and an MFA at the Yale University School of Art. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions worldwide. She is represented by Lehmann Maupin in New York, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, and Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris. Jennifer Blessing is senior curator, photography, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Carrie Mae Weems is a contemporary multimedia artist and activist tackling cultural identity, race, class, and power issues.
Immediate Family Photographs and text by Sally Mann Afterword by Reynolds Price
Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings Exhibition Schedule • J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, November 20, 2018− February 10, 2019 • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 3−May 27, 2019 • Jeu de Paume, Paris, June 17−September 22, 2019 • High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 19, 2019−January 12, 2020
“One of the great photography books of our time.” —New Republic Sally Mann (born in Lexington, Virginia, 1951) is one of America’s most renowned photographers. Her work has been exhibited around the world and is held by such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, all in New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Reynolds Price was the author of numerous books, including A Long and Happy Life (1962), volumes of short stories, poems, plays, essays, and memoirs. He was the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University.
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11 × 9 ½ in. (27.9 × 24.1 cm) 88 pages 60 duotone images Hardcover with jacket and bellyband ISBN 978-1-59711-254-3 US $50.00 / CDN $69.95 / UK £35.00 55000
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It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It . . . Photographs and writings by Luigi Ghirri Edited and with notes by Paola Ghirri Preface by William Eggleston Essay by Germano Celant Chronology by Elena Re
11 × 8!½ in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm) 152 pages 95 four-color images and 30 illustrations Hardcover with jacket ISBN 978-1-59711-058-7 US $60.00 / CDN $81.00 / UK £45.00 Limited-edition print available
Luigi Ghirri: The Map and The Territory Exhibition Schedule • Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, September 2018 • Jeu de Paume, Paris, Spring 2019 It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It—the first book published on Ghirri in the US—established him as the seminal artist he was. Ghirri shared the sensibility of what became known as the New Color and the New Topographics movements before they had been named. Like his counterparts in Italian cinema, Ghirri believed the local and the universal were inseparable, and that life’s polarities —love and hate, present and past— were equally compelling. He worked in Giorgio Morandi’s studio and with architect Aldo Rossi, while influencing a generation of photographers, including Olivo Barbieri and Martin Parr.
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Luigi Ghirri (born in Scandiano, Italy, 1943; died in Roncocesi, Italy, 1992) studied and worked in Modena. His work is in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; and Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. Paola Ghirri was an artist who was married to Luigi Ghirri; William Eggleston is one of the most significant photographers at work today; Germano Celant is senior curator of contemporary art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Elena Re is an art critic and curator.
The Bikeriders
6 ¼ × 9 ¼ in. (15.9 × 23.5 cm) 94 pages 48 duotone images Clothbound with jacket ISBN 978-1-59711-264-2 US $35.00 / CDN $48.95 / UK £22.95
Photographs and text by Danny Lyon • • •
Highly sought-after classic photobook Beautiful new reproductions from Lyon’s vintage photographs A powerful portrait of 1960s American subculture and society
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The Bikeriders offers a powerful, immersive tale of 1960s American biker subculture from a highly personalized, uncompromising, and authentic perspective. This volume features photographs and transcribed interviews made from 1963 to 1967, when renowned documentary photographer Danny Lyon was a member of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club. Lyon’s depiction of individuals on the outskirts of society offers a gritty yet humanistic view that subverts the commercialized image of Americana. This edition, published as a hardcover facsimile, is faithfully based on the original, albeit including newly gorgeous reproductions from Lyon’s vintage photographs. Danny Lyon’s (born in New York, 1942) books include The Movement (1964), The Destruction of Lower Manhattan (1969), Conversations with the Dead (1971), Knave of Hearts (1999), and Deep Sea Diver (2011). Lyon has been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships twice and National Endowment for the Arts grants ten times.
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“The book is a seminal example of the practice called New Journalism . . . the rerelease of The Bikeriders is not only an homage to this movement, it reminds us to follow our instincts and react to the world as fearlessly as Lyon did.” —Vice
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Children’s Books “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” —Dorothea Lange, Aperture Founding Member In 2014, Aperture began to publish photography books for kids, each meant to sharpen their seeing and kick-start creativity. So far, we have created a playful activity book to engage kids in the fun and wonder of photography; an artist book where everyday scenes are transformed into a game of pairs; and a journey through the power and magic of photography by Joel Meyerowitz, reflecting on the kinds of tools photographers use to see, like intuition, timing, point of view, a willingness to wait, and the courage to move closer—tactics that make beauty and meaning, otherwise hidden, visible.
Seeing Things: A Kid’s Guide to Looking at Photographs By Joel Meyerowitz • • •
Learn from a popular and captivating master of the medium Introduces the magic of great photographs like John Szarkowski’s Looking at Photographs, but for kids For every parent who wants to empower their child to navigate the world of images
8!¼ × 11!1/8 in. (21 × 28.4 cm) 80 pages 30 black-and-white and fourcolor images Hardcover with die-cut ISBN 978-1-59711-315-1 US $24.95 / CDN $34.95 / UK £15.95 52495
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Joel Meyerowitz (born in New York, 1938) is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. He has published over fifteen books.
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“The moment of seeing is like waking up.” —Joel Meyerowitz
8!½ × 10!5/8 in. (21.6 × 27 cm) 108 pages 85 four-color images Hardcover ISBN 978-1-59711-355-7 US $19.95 / CDN $27.95 / UK £12.95 ISBN: 978-1-59711-355-7
Go Photo! An Activity Book for Kids Text and photographs by Alice Proujansky Illustrations by Maggie Prendergast • • •
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Featuring fun and inspiring photo activities for everyone A playful book with step-by-step illustrated instructions for each activity Provides the tools, tips, and motivation to kick-start creativity
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Alice Proujansky is Aperture Foundation’s coordinator of community partnerships. She holds a BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
This Equals That
By Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin • • •
A colorful art book made for children, that all ages will enjoy A unique and imaginative journey in photographs—a game of connections A clever collaboration between two artists, both with popular followings
Jason Fulford (born in Atlanta, 1973) is a photographer and cofounder of the nonprofit J&L Books. He is a contributing editor at Blind Spot and a frequent lecturer. His monographs include Raising Frogs for $$$ (2006), The Mushroom Collector (2010), and Hotel Oracle (2013).
7!3/4 × 7!3/4 in. (19.7 × 19.7 cm) 80 pages 40 four-color images Hardcover ISBN 978-1-59711-288-8 US $19.95 / CDN $27.95 / UK £12.95 Limited-edition print available ISBN 978-1-59711-288-8 51995
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Tamara Shopsin (born in New York, 1979) is a graphic designer and illustrator whose work has been featured in the New York Times, GOOD, Time, Wired, and Newsweek. She is the author of Mumbai New York Scranton (2013) and Arbitrary Stupid Goal (2017). She is also a cook at her family’s restaurant, Shopsin’s, in New York.
”By the time you get to the end of [This Equals That], you’ve undergone a kind of visual tuneup that will make you see the world around you more clearly, and make it much more interesting too.” —New York Times [!35!]
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Selected Classics No art library should be considered complete without Aperture’s classic photobooks— from our very first title, Edward Weston’s Flame of Recognition, to Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph, now in print for more than forty years; from contemporary classics such as Sally Mann’s Immediate Family and Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency to the remastered and expanded edition of Josef Koudelka’s Gypsies. These are the books that have come to define the canon of photographic literature.
Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph Fortieth-Anniversary Edition
Photographs by Diane Arbus Edited and designed by Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel • • • •
In 2012, reissued as the fortieth-anniversary edition Published in five languages since 1972 Includes eighty photographs More than 450,000 copies in print to date
“Diane Arbus was not a theorist but an artist. Her concern was not to buttress philosophical positions but to make pictures. She loved photography for the miracles it performs every day by accident, and respected it for the precise intentional tool that it could be, given talent, intelligence, dedication, and discipline.” —John Szarkowski
Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographs Essay by John P. Jacob • • •
A stunning large-format reproduction of Diane Arbus’s iconic portfolio The only instance in which Arbus curated her own work for presentation to the public In publication form for one time only; this book will not be reprinted
John P. Jacob is the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s McEvoy Family Curator for Photography. Previously, Jacob was vice president and director of the Inge Morath Foundation. Recent publications include Harlem Heroes: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten (2016), among others.
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Paperback with flaps ISBN 978-1-59711-175-1 US $39.95 / CDN $55.95 / UK £25.00 53995
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11 × 14 in. (28 × 35.5 cm) 110 pages 43 tritone and four-color images Hardcover enclosed in a slipcase ISBN 978-1-59711-439-4 US $80.00 / CDN $105.00 / UK £50.00
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency Photographs and text by Nan Goldin • •
First published by Aperture in 1986, essential reissue for every photo library A contemporary classic with images masterfully reproduced from original transparencies
10 × 9 in. (25.4 × 22.9 cm) 148 pages 126 four-color images Hardcover with jacket ISBN 978-1-59711-208-6 US $50.00 / CAD $69.95 / UK £35.00
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Nan Goldin (born in Washington, DC, 1953) began photographing at the 9 781597 112086 age of fifteen. She received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1977. In 1978 she moved to New York, where she continued to document her “extended family.” These photographs, along with those taken in London, Berlin, and Provincetown, Massachusetts, became the subject of her slide show and first book, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (Aperture, 1986). Goldin’s other books include The Other Side (1993), Ten Years After (1997), and The Beautiful Smile (2008).
Uncommon Places: The Complete Works Photographs by Stephen Shore Essay by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen Conversation with Lynne Tillman • • • •
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Stephen Shore (born in New York, 1947) had his work purchased by Edward Steichen for the Museum of Modern Art at the age of fourteen. At seventeen, he was a regular at Andy Warhol’s Factory, producing an important photographic document of the scene, and in 1971, at the age of twenty-four, he became the first living photographer since Alfred Stieglitz forty years earlier to have a solo show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since 1982, he has been director of the photography program at Bard College.
Aperture Conversations: 1985 to the Present Preface by Melissa Harris With more than seventy interviews • • •
The authentic artist’s voice, drawn from the last thirty years of Aperture magazine and the foundation’s publishing Required reading for everyone seriously interested in photography Over seventy conversations among the most influential names in photography, from Robert Adams to LaToya Ruby Frazier
Melissa Harris is editor-at-large of Aperture Foundation, where she has worked for more than twenty-five years, including as editor-in-chief of Aperture magazine. Harris has edited more than forty books for Aperture and recently authored A Wild Life: A Visual Biography of Photographer Michael Nichols (2017). Harris has curated photography exhibitions for venues worldwide and teaches at New York University in the Tisch Photography and Imaging department. [!37!]
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