- Aperture (magazine)
"Aperture" is a quarterly
photography magazine based in New York,New York ,USA . The magazine is published byAperture Foundation , anon-profit organization devoted tofine art photography . The foundation also publishes books onphotography .Inspired by the unrivaled production-quality of
Alfred Stieglitz 's then defunct "Camera Work ", "Aperture" magazine was founded byMinor White ,Ansel Adams ,Dorothea Lange , Barbara Morgan,Nancy Newhall andBeaumont Newhall ,Melton Ferris andDody Warren . [ [http://www.aperture.org/store/about-history.aspx About Aperture] ] Photographer Minor White edited the magazine, from its first issue in 1952 until 1975. White died in 1976.Both "Aperture" magazine and its book publishing arm are now run by the nonprofit arts institution the Aperture Foundation. In 2003, the Foundation instituted the first Aperture/Michael E. Hoffman Award, in memory of
Michael E. Hoffman (d. 2001), who was Aperture's Publisher for thirty-seven years.The magazine was forced to close in 1964. Hoffman, a close friend and former student of then editor Minor White, later restored the magazine, becoming its publisher and adopting a quarterly format.
Aperture's book publication program began a year later in 1965, with "
Edward Weston : The Flame of Recognition", one of Aperture's bestsellers. [http://www.aperture.org/store/pdfs/timeline.pdf Aperture Foundation, A History of Excellence (Timeline)] ]The magazine helped publish a catalogue by photographer
Diane Arbus , a year after her death. [http://www.aperture.org/store/pdfs/timeline.pdf Aperture Foundation, A History of Excellence (Timeline)] ] MoMA curatorJohn Szarkowski was organising an Arbus retrospective in 1972, but the catalogue had been rejected by all the major publishing houses in the United States and Europe. Aperture agreed to publish Arbus' catalogue and it was released in time for the show as "Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph".In 1984, Aperture also published "The Golden Age of British Photography, 1839-1900", which featured restored, British Victorian Era photography.
The Aperture Foundation now sponsors limited edition portfolios, lectures, conferences and touring gallery exhibitions. In 2005, it opened a gallery for fine art photography in New York.
References
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