Aperture

Anniversary issue features seven original commissions by leading photographers and artists, and seven essays about Aperture’s legacy by award-winni...

Robert Adams, one of America's foremost living photographers, has spent decades considering and documenting the landscape of the American West and ...

In this expansive monograph, Robert Adams’ compelling and provocative photographs explore the profound questions of our responsibility to the land ...

The twentieth anniversary edition of An-My Lê’s acclaimed first book Small Wars, reissued with five new images and an afterword by Ocean Vuong. For...

“Family” delves into the ways photographers have chronicled their relationships with those closest to them, be it immediate family or their communi...

Virginia Woolf ’s prescient 1928 novel Orlando tells the story of a young nobleman who, during the era of Elizabeth I, mysteriously shifts gender, ...

How do homes serve as emblems of a moment, markers of the past, or articulations of future possibilities? The Spring 2020 issue of Aperture conside...

Published in 1986, Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency, with its fresh, unflinching portrayal of the photographer’s circle of friends, dramati...

The Native America issue, edited in collaboration with the artist Wendy Red Star, considers the wide-ranging work of photographers and lens-based a...

If the year 2020 has resembled a disquieting sci-fi plot or a sinister speculative work, this year has also shown us that other ways of living are ...

This winter, Aperture magazine presents “Reference,” an issue that considers the role images play in the creation of something else.­ Spanning fash...

This spring Aperture magazine presents “We Make Pictures in Order to Live” an issue that nods to the late, celebrated writer Joan Didion and looks ...

As We Rise presents an exciting compilation of photographs from African diasporic culture. With over one hundred works by Black artists from Canada...

This monograph is the first to collect the photographs of internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Barry McGee. Though best known for the invent...

The eight essays in Beauty in Photography provide a critical appreciation of photography by one of its foremost proponents. The result is a rare bo...

An innovative documentary photographer, Berenice Abbott pioneered scientific images and photographed the fast-changing landscape of her times. Abbo...