Books from Aperture Foundation

David Wojnarowicz: Brush Fires in the Social Landscape
By David Wojnarowicz
Twentieth Anniversary Edition David Wojnarowicz's use of photography was remarkably innovative, as was his unprecedented way of addressing the AIDS crisis and issues of censorship, homophobia, and narrative.
Deana Lawson
By Zadie Smith
Over the last ten years, she has created a visionary language to describe black identities, through intimate portraiture and striking accounts of ceremonies and rituals.Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph features forty beautifully ...
The Library Book

In the introductory essay, Manguel considers the story of the library in America, its evolving architecture and cultural role, and how the American model reflects the archetypal idea of the universal library.
Dancing on Fire: Photographs from Haiti

Provides a pictorial chronicle of Haiti and its tumultuous history, and of the Haitian people and their struggle for freedom and modest prosperity.
Crisis of the Real: Writings on Photography, 1974-1989
By Andy Grundberg
Crisis of the Real: Writings on Photography, 1974-1989
Mexico, the Revolution and Beyond: Photographs by Augustín Victor Casasola, 1900-1940
By Pete Hamill, Agustín Víctor Casasola
During the first four decades of the twentieth century, Mexico underwent revolutionary changes, politically, economically, and socially. Documenting those changes visually was a remarkable photographer, Agustin Victor Casasola, whose pictures...
To Make it Home: Photographs of the American West
By Robert Adams
135 black-and-white duotone plates cover twenty-one years of Robert Adam's passionate affection for the American landscape. Illustrated.
Aperture: 184, fall 2006
By Aperture Foundation
Aperture: 184, fall 2006
Highway Kind
By Denise Wolff
"Following in the great tradition of the photographic American road trip, 'Highway Kind' expresses Justine Kurland's deep interest in the Western frontier, escape, and the possibility of living outside mainstream values.
Caught in the Act: A Look at Contemporary Multimedia Performance

Caught in the Act is an exhilarating look at multimedia performance with front-row-center photographs by Dona Ann McAdamns. Her unique vantage is in part due to the enormous respect she...
Specimens and Marvels: William Henry Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography
By Michael Gray, William Henry Fox Talbot
Published to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Britain's celebrated inventor of photography, Specimens and Marvels illuminates the mid-nineteenth-century cultural environment in which Talbot's vision for photography emerged--a vision...
Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Masters of Photography
By Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Masters of Photography
An Uncertain Grace
By Eduardo Galeano, Fred Ritchin
From a Brazilian mine where 50,000 mud-covered men haul heavy bags of dirt up and down slippery ladders in search of a stray nugget of gold, to a former lake...
André Kertész
By André Kertész, Carole Kismaric
"I write with light, " Andre Kertesz once said of his work. In one of the medium's longest, most productive careers, he created a vast and lyric narrative that shaped...
The Enchanted Landscape: Photographs 1940-1975
By Ursula K. Le Guin, Wynn Bullock, Raphael Shevelev
To Bullock, light was the first principle of the universe as well as of his camera. Through a fusion of photography with philosophy, science, physics, and aesthetics, he believed that...
Exiles

"This collection of pictures by an acknowledged master of photography, now updated to include 11 new images, forms a document of the spiritual and physical state of exile. The sense...
L'Histoire de France
By Ralph Gibson
L'Histoire de France
Diane Arbus
By Doon Arbus, Diane Arbus
Individual photographers.
The Photographer's Cookbook
By Lisa Hostetler
The book provides a time capsule of contemporary photographers of the 1970s--many before they made a name for themselves--as well as a fascinating look at how they depicted food, family and home, taking readers behind the camera and into ...
The Chinese Photobook: From the 1900s to the Present
By Martín Parr, WassinkLundgren
Their painstaking research into each of the featured books unveils a complex, multifaceted perspective of China, revealing much about the country and the dramatic twists and turns of its history over the last century." -- Book jacket.