Aperture was founded in 1952 by photographers Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Minor White, and others as a quarterly journal devoted to photography as an art form. Over seven decades later, it remains the most essential publication in the field — a magazine that has shaped the way photographers, curators, critics, and audiences think about the photographic image.
Each issue is built around a theme and features portfolios, essays, and interviews that engage with photography at the highest level of visual and intellectual ambition. The magazine has published virtually every significant photographer of the past seventy years, and its backlist of monographs and anthologies constitutes one of the most important archives of photographic publishing in existence.
Aperture understands that photography is never just about the image. It is about seeing — about the choices a photographer makes when they decide what to include in the frame and what to leave out, and about what those choices reveal about the world. The magazine has been teaching its readers how to see for more than seven decades, and it has never stopped being indispensable.
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