Product Description: Aperture magazine was founded in 1952 by the photographers Ansel Adams, Minor White, Barbara Morgan and Dorothea Lange, and the photography historians Beaumont and Nancy Newhall. These individuals wished to foster the development and appreciation of the photographic medium...read more

Celebrates Aperture magazine and the photographers it has presented for the past fifty years.

Product Description: Stark, compelling images from border-town brothelsIn the early 1970s, Boystown was a collection of brothels along the border between Texas and Mexico, where cowboys and college boys, gang members and family men, drunkenly traveled desert highways to dance to six-piece Tejano bands, guzzle cheap liquor, and pay for sex...read more

Product Description: Aperture 160Summer 2000In this, the second issue of the new Aperture, the dynamic format of the magazine is employed to explore the different ways in which our right to see is mediated.Issue 160 includes a striking collection of images selected from the Perpignan festival of photojournalism, a discussion among members of the photographic community on W...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Aperture 154Explorations: Nine PortfoliosWinter 1999Aperture's second Explorations issue presents heretofore undiscovered images by photographers whose work is bound to become widely known. They probe the metaphysical through ritual, invoke dark metaphors in circus performance, find religion in nocturnal deserts, and study the ties that bind...read more

Product Description: Aperture 153Rio de LuzFall 1998The Mexican book series Río de Luz was a courageous and energetic presentation of Latin American photography. To honor the accomplishments of the series and the artists, an issue of Aperture is devoted to the Río de Luz collection...read more

Product Description: Aperture 152Crossing Borders: Contemporary Czech and Slovak PhotographyFall 1998A new generation of Czech and Slovak photographers--heirs to the legacy of such modern masters as Josef Sudek and Frantisek Driktol--will be the subject of the August 1998 issue of Aperture, featuring images never before published in the West...read more

Product Description: Aperture 148DeliriumSummer 1997Guest edited by W. M. Hunt, this issue of Aperture features work by photographers and scientists in their efforts to capture delirium on paper. Images ranging from contemporary through nineteenth-century show how delirium, clinical or colloquial, has been documented, analyzed, codified, worked over, and wondered about for the last 150 years, together creating a psychic agitation that can be as dark as it is witty...read more

Product Description: This issue focuses on the theory and practice of "Connoisseurs and Collections" as refelected in six of photography's outstanding devotees. Feautured are the works of Dorothy Norman, Werner Bokelberg, Gerard Levy, Stan Burns, Thomas Walther, and Joshua Smith...read more