Aperture Foundation is a nonprofit arts institution, founded in 1952 by Ansel Adams, Minor White, Barbara Morgan, Dorothea Lange, Nancy Newhall, 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 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 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.
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 PhotoBook Awards
The Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards is a yearly photography book award that is given jointly by Paris Photo and Aperture."PhotoBook Awards", Aperture. Accessed 1 August 2014. It is announced at the Paris Photo fair and was established in 2012. The categories are Photography Catalog 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 Beltrán 2023: Vân-Nhi Nguyen
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.
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.
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