Aperture
Aperture was established in 1952 to advance “creative thinking, significantly expressed in words and photographs”, and it began as a quarterly magazine, launched in San Francisco and edited at first by Minor White, before it became a book publisher in the mid-1960s, together with a limited-edition print programme, with The Flame of Recognition, a book on Edward Weston. It is a non-profit publisher based in New York, and the books sit among a magazine, limited-edition prints, exhibitions, digital platforms, public and educational programmes and its PhotoBook Awards. Its stated vision is a future in which photography's democratic spirit helps build a more curious, creative and equitable world.
- Books in Spine Index
- 90, years 2004 – 2026
- Link
- store.aperture.org/collections/books
Start with
- Diane Arbus, Revelations (2022)
- Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Dark Room A–Z (2024)
- Gregory Crewdson, Cathedral of the Pines (2016)
- Diane Arbus, An Aperture Monograph (2011)
Latest additions
- Vik Muniz, Vik Muniz on Photography, Mind, and Matter (2025)
- Alejandro Cartagena, Ground Rules (2025)
- Anastasia Samoylova, Atlantic Coast (2025)
- Takuma Nakahira, At the Limits of the Gaze (2025)
Recurring authors
- Gregory Crewdson (3)
- Alex Webb (3)
- Diane Arbus (2)
- Paul Mpagi Sepuya (2)
- Richard Misrach (2)
Shares authors with
- Radius Books (4)
- Postcart (3)
- Steidl (3)
- Atelier EXB (2)
- Thames & Hudson (2)
Books in the archive
- An-My Lê, Small Wars (2025)
- August Sander, People of the 20th Century (2022)
- Bettina Grossman, Bettina (2022)
- Bruce Davidson, Subway (2011)
- Candida Höfer, Architecture Of Absence (2004)
- Coreen Simpson, Coreen Simpson: A Monograph (2025)
- David Alekhuogie, A Reprise (2025)
- Dawoud Bey, Elegy (2023)
- Deana Lawson, An Aperture Monograph (2018)
- Diane Arbus, Revelations (2022)
- Diane Arbus, An Aperture Monograph (2011)
- Ed Templeton, Wires Crossed (2023)
- Edward Weston, The Flame of Recognition (2025)
- John Gossage, The Pond (2010)
- Justine Kurland, Girl Pictures (2020)
- LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Notion of Family (2014)
- Lee Friedlander, Life Still (2026)
- Lyle Ashton Harris, Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs (2017)
- Martin Parr, The Non-Conformists (2013)
- Myriam Boulos, What’s Ours (2023)
- Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (2021)
- Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Dark Room A–Z (2024)
- Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Paul Mpagi Sepuya (2020)
- Philip Montgomery, American Mirror (2021)
- Pieter Hugo, Kin (2015)
- Richard Misrach, Cargo (2025)
- Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo, Border Cantos (2016)
- Richard Mosse, Infra (2012)
- Rinko Kawauchi, Halo (2017)
- Robert Frank, The Americans (2024)
- Sally Mann, At Twelve, Portraits of Young Women (2024)
- Stephen Shore, Uncommon places (2015)
- Susan Meiselas, Nicaragua (2025)
- Taysir Batniji, Home Away from Home (2018)
- Thomas Ruff, JPEGS (2009)
- Tina Barney, Family ties (2024)
- Todd Hido, IIntimate Distance (Revised and Expanded Edition) (2025)
- Tommy Kha, Half, Full, Quarter (2023)
- Tyler Mitchell, Wish This Was Real (2025)
- Vik Muniz, Postcards from Nowhere (2020)
- Viviane Sassen, Venus & Mercury (2022)
- Zanele Muholi, Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness (2018)
- Zanele Muholi, Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Volume II (2024)
- Carrie Mae Weems, The Heart of the Matter (2025)
- Ming Smith, Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph (2020)
- Various, I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now (2024)
- Ishiuci Miyako, Traces (2026)
- Joel Meyerowitz, Cape Light (2026)
- Gregory Crewdson, Cathedral of the Pines (2016)
- Gregory Crewdson, Alone Street (2021)
- Gregory Crewdson, An Eclipse of Moths (2020)
- Larry Towell, Afghanistan (2014)
- Gregory Halpern, Let the Sun Beheaded Be (2020)
- Paolo Ventura, Racconti brevi (2016)
- Mary Ellen Mark, Il ritratto e l’istante (2017)
- Todd Hido, Paesaggi, interni e nudi (2015)
- Alex Webb, Rebecca Norris Webb, Street photography e immagine poetica (2014)
- Larry Fink, Composizione e improvvisazione (2014)
- Sanna Kannisto, Fieldwork (2011)
- Alice Proujansky, Go Photo! An Activity Book for Kids (2016)
- Richard Renaldi, Manhattan Sunday (2016)
- Pao Houa Her, My grandfather turned into a tiger... and other illusions (2023)
- Kelli Connell, Pictures For Charis (2024)
- Barry McGee, Reproduction (2022)
- Horacio Fernández, The Latin American Photobook (2011)
- Antwaun Sargent, The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion (2019)
- Various Authors, SETTING SUN: Writings by Japanese Photographers (2005)
- Ryuichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian, Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s (2009)
- Judy Glickman Lauder, Beyond The Shadows (2018)
- Kwame Brathwaite, Black Is Beautiful (2019)
- Alex Webb, Rebecca Norris Webb, Brooklyn: The City Within (2024)
- Susan Meiselas, Eyes Open: 23 Photography Projects for Curious Kids (2021)
- Ernest Cole, The True America (2024)
- Tom Sandberg, Tom Sandberg: Photographs (2022)
- Ari Marcopoulos, Zines (2023)
- Arielle Bobb-Willis, Keep the Kid Alive (2024)
- E.A. Kahane, Between the Balloons: My Thanksgiving Parade (2026)
- Tina Barney, Tina Barney: Fashion (2026)
- Elle Pérez, Devotions (2026)
- Alex Webb, Walking Blues (2026)
