About Aperture

Aperture Foundation was founded in 1952 by nine visionary photographers and critics including Ansel Adams, Minor White, Dorothea Lange, Barbara Morgan, and Beaumont and Nancy Newhall. Created with minimal resources but lofty ambitions, Aperture launched as the first journal since Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work to explore photography as fine art, establishing a forum for serious photography at a time when the medium was still fighting for institutional recognition. The magazine's founding mission was to "communicate with serious photographers and creative people everywhere" and advance "creative thinking, significantly expressed in words and photographs."

Over seven decades later, Aperture has evolved from a quarterly magazine into the world's leading nonprofit photography publisher, with more than 600 titles in print and headquarters in New York's Chelsea district. The organization continues to lead global conversations around photography through its acclaimed magazine, monographs, exhibitions, digital platforms, and educational programs. Today, Aperture champions photography's vital role in nurturing curiosity and encouraging a more just society, working toward "a future where the power and democratic spirit of photography inspire a more curious, creative, and equitable world." (Website, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube)