Compiled by Magnum photojournalist Susan Meiselas, Eyes Open is a sourcebook of photography ideas for kids―to engage with the world through the camera.Forty-one enticing projects help inspire a proces
In The Photography Workshop Series, Aperture Foundation works with the world’s top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography―offering the workshop expe
This is a long-awaited monograph on photographer Ming Smith, whose poetic and experimental images have become icons of twentieth-century African American life. In the early 1970s, when African America
First published by Aperture in 1988, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women is a contemporary classic by one of photography’s most renowned photographers. To mark the book’s thirtieth anniversary, Apertu
Perfect Strangers captures the kinetic bustle of changing streets and passing crowds in New York City.Over the last seven years, Melissa O’Shaughnessy has photographed daily on the streets of New York
Diana Markosian’s Santa Barbara brings together staged scenes, film stills, and family pictures in an innovative and compelling hybrid of personal and documentary storytelling.In 1996, following the c
To Make Their Own Way in the World is a profound consideration of some of the most challenging images in the early history of photography. The fifteen daguerreotypes―made in 1850 by photographer Josep
First published in 1969, The Destruction of Lower Manhattan is a singular, lasting document of nearly sixty acres of architecture, some dating back to the Civil War era, on the cusp of being demolishe
In Let the Sun Beheaded Be, photographer Gregory Halpern focuses on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, a French overseas region with a complicated colonial history. Renowned for his photographic medi
Paul Mpagi Sepuya presents the work of one of the most prominent, up-and-coming photographers working today. Sepuya primarily makes studio photographs of friends, artists, collaborators, and himself,
How do homes serve as emblems of a moment, markers of the past, or articulations of future possibilities? The Spring 2020 issue of Aperture considers the meanings and forms of a home, and the relation
