Aperture Magazine, the fine magazine of photography. Selected issues, 1960 to 2003.

17a. Aperture, Volume 8, Number 4, 1960. Front and rear cover photos by Paul Caponigro. Editorial by Minor White. Portfolios by Gerry Sharpe, including photo of Ansel Adams and nine others; article by Minor White, "With Nothing Between You"; "Concerning Significant Books" re Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans, article by Henry Holmes Smith, and Photo-Secession by Robert Doty, article by Minor White, illustration by Baron De Meyer; reviews of "Under the Sun" concerning Walter Chappell, Syl Labrot, and Nathan Lyons, by Barbara Morgan, Van Deren Coke, Minor White, Charles Arnold, Jr., and Marvin Bell, with illustration by Nathan Lyons, Walter Chappell (2), and Syl Labrot. List of Portfolios of Original Portfolios available for sale, for $100 to $200, by Philip Hyde, Paul Caponigro, Ansel Adams, Don Worth, Nathan Lyons, Minor White, Brett Weston, and Edward Weston. List of Workshops offered by ansel Adams, Nathan Lysons, Ruth Bernhard, and Minor White. Very good, minor rubbing on covers, fold at spine separated 1/2 inch at top and 1/4 inch at bottom, interior pages fine. $75.

17a. Aperture, Volume 13, Number 4, 1968. Portfolios by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and John Spence Weir. Also Notman, Harry Callahan, Wynn Bullock, reviews, etc. Very good with a few spots, crimps, still nice. $25.

17b. Aperture, Volume 16, Number 2, 1971. Cover by David Heath. Issue features photographs by Emmet Gowin, Nathan Lyons, Aaron Siskind, Frederick Sommer, and Doris Ulmann, and article by Frederick Sommer, "An Extemporaneous Talk at the Art Institute of Chicago, October 1970. Near fine with just a bit of rubbing on cover. SOLD

17bb. Another copy, good with shallow indentations on cover, interior fine. $15.

17b.1. Aperture, Volume 16, Number 3 (16.3). 1972. Edited by Minor White. Very good clean and tight copy with moderate shelf wear. Includes cover photography by Jay Dusard. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Samvega: Aesthetic Shock; Eric Schroeder, Scientific Description of Art; Roger Lipsey: Double Portrait: Alfred Stieglitz and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy; Eric Johnson, A Composer’s Vision: Photographs by Ernest Bloch; Lincoln Kirstein, Walt Whitman and Thomas Eakins: A Poet’s and a Painter’s Eye; and single photographs by Minor White, Doug Prince, Paul Caponigro, Arthur Lazar, and Gerry Della Rocca DeCandal. Bloch is well known in the history of photography for his comments to Stieglitz about Stieglitz’s photographs of clouds that he called equivalents; however, this article shows that Bloch himself was an avid and able amateur photographer for fifty years. Kirstein’s essay includes a number of photographs of Whitman and many illustrations of the photographs and paintings of Thomas Eakins, some of which show how he used photographs for his oils. Lipsey’s essay traces the relationship between Stieglitz and the eminent art historian Coomaraswamy, with interesting quotations from their correspondence. $25.

Aperture, Volume 18, Number 1 - See Evans, Frederick.

17.b.1a. Celebrations (Also issued as Aperture, Vol. 18, No. 2. Selection and text by Minor White and Jonathan Green. Preface by Gyorgy Kepes. Hayden Gallery, Massachusettes Instgitute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. March 1 through March 30, 1974. Exhibition catalog, 75 photographs that"communicated the world of emotions and spirit." Photographers include Leonard Freed; Josef Koudelka; Wayne Miller; Marc Riboud; Dennis Stock; Max Waldman; Emmet Gowin; Mark Krastof; David Featherstone; Minor White; Imogen Cunningham; Edward Weston; Donald Blumberg; Caroline Vaughan; Peter DeLory; Allen A. Dutton; Alma Davenport Dailey; Gary Sinick; Jacqueline Poitier; A. Doren; Wes Miller; Naomi Bushman; Dan McCormick; John Loori; Cameron Sesto; George B. Fry, III; Arnold Kramer; Joe DeMaio; Walter Chappell; Gyorgy Kepes; Erik Sundance; Jonathan Green; Carl Chiarenza; John Weiss; Marion Patterson; David Ulrich; Erich Hartman; Dennis Stock; Michael Kaufman; Robert Shaw; Charles Gatewood; Doug Stewart; Allen Page; David Alan Harvey; Gail Skoff;Jack Stuler; Dick Bartlett; Karen S. Rantzman; Siegfried Halus; Dena; Abe Frajndlich; Nicholas D. Callaway. Near fine in fresh, glossy wraps with covers starting to curl, $15.

17.b.2. Aperture 77, 1976. Cover and feature article on Josef Koudelka, including images from series published in his books, Gypsies and Exiles, but not all the images here were published in those books. Also Burk Uzzle, Wynn Bullock, Symbols in the American City, and The Land: An Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Like new with just a bit of curling on front cover. $30.

17c. Aperture 78, 1977. [From the brief period when Aperture was issued in hardover only. This issue includes Mike Disfarmer, Heber Springs, Arkansas; Hilla and Bernd Becher, Preparation Plants; Joel Meyerowitz, color street photography, essay by Max Kozloff; Egypt in Flaubert's Time: An Exhibition of the Firt Photographers, 1839-1860, by Andre and Marie-Therese Jammes, with photographs by J.B. Greene, Francis Frith, Felix Teynard, Beato, Maxime Du Camp, Louis De Clerq, et al; Paul Strand, The Garden: Vines and Leaves, and other photographs by Minor White, Emmet Gowin, Michael Kostiuk, Imogen Cunningham, Frederick Sommer.] VG+ with minor wear on bottom edge. $30.

18. Aperture 79, 1977. [From the brief period when Aperture was issued in hardcover only. This issue includes Ansel Adams at his 75th birthday party, with the cake decorated as "Moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico," and chapters with photos by Walter Chappell; Russell Drisch; Henry Peach Robinson; Eikoh Hosoe (about the making of Ordeal by Roses); "The Silence of Stones: The Photographer as Artist," by Brewster Ghiselin; and Jerome Liebling.] Very good with a bit of wear on the corners, still a nice copy, SOLD

18bb. Aperture 83-84. August Sander: Photographs of an Epoch, 1904-1959. Man of the Twentieth Century, Rhineland Landscapes, Nature Studies, Architectural and Industrial Photographs, Images of Sardinia. Preface by Beaumont Newhall. Historical Commentary by Robert Kramer. Accompanied by excerpts from the writings of August Sander and his contemporaries. An Aperture Monograph. Chronology and bibliography. Special double number of Aperture. 1980. Crease on last photo by Sander that occurred in binding process; verso of this page is blank. Minor cover wear, VG., SOLD

18bbb. Aperture 88, 1982, very good with small scuff on back cover. Small black spot on front cover at right occurred during printing. Small rubber stamp of previous institutional owner inside front cover. Includes The Work of Atget: Old France, A Review by Jed Perl; Through Indian Eyes by Judith M., Gutman; Personal Portraits by Nina Raginsky; Iran Face to Face, photos by Gilles Peress, essay by Curtis Harnack; Our Lives and Our Children by Robert Adams; Where I Was Meant to Live, photos by Mario Giacomelli, poems by Leonardo Sinisgalli. $10.

18c. Aperture 89, 1982. Includes Photography: Straight or on the Rocks? A Conversation with Max Kozloff by David T. Hanson; The Auschwitz Album: A Book Review by Danny Lyon; Asylum, Photographs by Raymond Depardon, text by Lauren Shakely; Photo-Boot Strips, photographs by Carol Taback, text by Martha Chahroudi; David Hockney's Photographs, text by Christopher Knight, notes by David Hockney; Cubism and american Photography by John Pultz; and Story from Czechoslovakia, My Country, photographs and notes by Jan Saudek. Very good, nearly fine, but with crimp in lower bottom corner of rear cover, $12.

18c.1. Aperture 91. Summer 1983. Includes Walker Evans; Beauty; Nancy Hellebrand; Portraits; William Maguire; Night Photography;J. Lueders-Booth; Ted Hartwell; Stephen Scheer; Backyards; Rhondal McKinney; Susan Barron; Michael Spano; review of photo history by Carol Squiers; review of books on Walker Evans and by Michael Lesy by Danny Lyon. Small scuffs on cover. $10.

Aperture 92. Very good plus with moderate shelf wear. Includes Includes Who Killed Camera Arts (magazine) by Danny Lyon; Proud Pilgrims of Slovakia, photos by Markete Luskacova, essay by Mark Haworth-Booth; Tears and Misunderstanding by Ben Maddow, illustrated with well-known photographs; Philipp Scholz Rittermann: Moonlighting with text by Mary Wachs, photos of industry at night; The Women of Maciel, photographs of prostitutes in Brazil by Rio Branco; Ralston Crawford’s Gift of Selection by John Heilpern. $12.

18d. Aperture 93. Esalen Arts Symposium. Photography 1982. Includes Robert Adams; Raymond Depardon; Frank Goehlke; William Christenberry; Ray Metzker; Jerome Liebling; Siegfried Halus; Linda Connor; John Grimes; Thomas Ockerse; Brewster Ghiselin; Michael E. Hoffman; Richard Price; Ingrid Sischy; Alison Knowles; Carole Kismaric; et al. Rear cover with color photo by Linda Connor from 20 x 24 Polaroid. Very good with moderate wear on spine and small chip bottom edge rear cover near spine. $15. Another copy, fine. $20.

18d.1. Aperture 94. Spring 1984. Includes Larry Clark; Society for Photographic Education (SPE); Africa; Bill Dane; William Larson; Henry Hamilton Bennett; Wisconsin Dells; Stereographic Views; Max Yavno; Morocco; Mexico; Arizona; Miller-Plummer Collection. Small scuffs on covers. $10.

18.2. Aperture 106. Spring 1987. Technology and Transformation. Featuring Lewis Baltz: San Quentin Point; Catherine Wagner: The Louisiana World Exposition; Lynne Cohen: Room Readings; The Reality Museum of Daniel Faust; Reagan Louie: One Journey to China; David T. Hanson: Power Source; the View from Colstrip Montana; Robert Cumming: Threads of Nature, The MIT Photography Project; Kira Perov: Patterns of Light; People and Ideas: Television's Impact on Contemporary Art by Marc H. Miller; New Faces: The Composites of Nancy Burson by Art Kleiner; Photography in the Third Dimension by Laurance Weider; In Time: Earthworks, Photodocuments, and Robert Smithson's Buried Shed by Ron Horning. 80 pages, near fine. $15.

19. Aperture, No. 129. 40th Anniversary issue. 1992. Cover by Robert Rauschenburg. Includes long interview of Michael Hoffman, editor and publisher of Aperture, by Robert Adams and photographs by, among others, Brett Weston, Len Jenshel, Josef Koudelka, Carrie MaeWeems, Doug and Mike Starn, Joel-Peter Witkin, Zeke Berman, Dorothy Norman, Toshio Shibata, Marilyn Bridges, Harry Callahan, Jerry Uelsmann, Jock Sturges, DebbieFleming Caffery, Helen Chadwick,Barbara Kruger, Nick Knight, JavierVallhonrat, Nan Goldin, Jan Groover, Joel Sternfeld, Richard Benson, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Richard Misrach, Robert Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ralph Gibson, Sebastiao Salgado, Philip Jones Griffiths, Walter Rosenblum, Brian Weil, Abigail Heyman, Marilyn Nance, Helen Levitt, David Lee, Mary Ellen Mark, Inge Morath, Raghubir Singh, David C. Turnley, David Graham, Jud Dater, Alex Harris, and Thomas Struth. Near fine condition except small library stamp on cover and number 129 written in pencil inside back cover. Issued at $24.95. $15.

20. Aperture, No. 113 - see No. 36 on other page.

21. Aperture, No. 114, 1989. Self and Shadow. [John Coplans, Peter Campus, Peter Hujar, Brian Weil, Will McBride, Robert Mapplethorpe, Joel Sternfeld; inc. nudes.] Fine, wraps (as issued), SOLD.

22. Aperture, No. 123, 1991. Between Past and Future: New German Photography. [Photos by Otto Steinert, UMBO, Hannah Hoch, Heinz Jajek-Halke, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Friedrich Seidenstucker, August Sander, Robert Hausser, Herbert List, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Dieter Appelt, Andreas Gursky, Evelyn Richter, Thomas Ruff, Anselm Kiefer, and many others.] Very good with a few crimps. Issued at $18.50. $15.

22a. Aperture, 138. Immagini Italiane. Summer 1993. [Del Bene E Del Male, Or Who's on Top by Lina Wertmuller; The Comic Art of Dario Fo by Ron Jenkens; The Gospels according to Fo by Dario Fo; Flash Warning, The Paparazzi Are Coming by Massimo Di Forti; A Reading of Recent Italian Photography by Roberta Valtorta; A Minimal Adventure by Paolo Costantini; Blood Ties: The Mafia by Vincenzo Consolo; Against the Odds: One Woman's Battle with the Mob; An Interview with Letizia Battaglia by Giovanna Calvenzi; The Invention of Southernness: Photograhpic Travels and the Discovery of the Other Half of Italy by Anotonella Russo; Collecting and the History of Italian Photography by Carlo Bertelli, and other articles. Photos by Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Letizia Battaglia, Ernesto Bazan, Ugo Mulas, Oliviero Toscani, Luigi Veronesi; and many others. Very good with a few crimps, $15.

22b. Aperture, No. 151. Photographers on Photographers. With Selections by Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eikoh Hosoe, Helen Levitt, and Inge Morath, with photographs by them and their selected photographers: Martine Franck; Amy Arbus; Emmet Gowin; Ferdinando Scianna; Antonio Turok; Bill Arnold; and Anthony Suau. Also reviews of books by Gordon Parks, Sarah Charlesworth, and Susan Meiselas. Very good with a few light crimps on covers and a bit of wear at bottom right edge of front cover. $15.

23. Aperture, No. 153, 1998. Rio de Luz. [Latin American photography issue, inc. photos by Pedro Meyer, Tina Modotti, Mariana Yampolsky, et al.] Near fine, Aperture catalog laid in, wraps (as issued), $12.50.

Aperture, No. 161. (Theme issue on William Henry Fox Talbot). See Talbot.

23a. Aperture, No. 163, 2001. Sebastiao Salgado (Migrations), Heinrich Schliemann, Giorgia Fiorio (with interview), Robert Mapplethorpe (Polaroids), Cinematography of Vittorio Storaro, Pulitzer Prize photos, Rudy Burckhardt, Boris Mikhailov, Mario Giacomelli (obit). Fine, $12.50. (two copies available)

23b. Aperture, No. 164, 2001. Eliot Porter, Peter Moore, Donn DeCesare (El Salvador), A Visit to the U.S. Holocaust Museum by Danny Lyon, Miguel Rio Branco, Contemporary Black Photographers, Stieglitz, Barbara Ess, Matthieu Ricard, Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Nick Waplington, Zhang Huang, Donemica Bucalo, Mariko Mori, Bruce Davidson, Elliot Erwitt, Sandy Skoglund. Very small crimp on cover, else fine. $12.50.

23c. Aperture, No. 165, 2001. A Visit with William Eggleston; Eikoh Hosoe's Sublime Dance; A Very Puglia Christmas (Tony D'Urso photos); Paolo Pellegrin in Kosovo; Reclaimed by Sand (Desert photos by Elaine Ling); Records by Grass; Boxed in Glass (Atta Kim photos); Andreas Gursky; Sophie Calle. $12.50.

23d. Aperture, No. 166, 2002. 50th Anniversary Issue. David Hockney; Ansel Adams; Hiroshi Sugimoto; Aperture Magazine (history of founding); Eudora Welty; Janet Sternburg; Adrian Piper; Robert Capa (Spanish falling soldier picture history by Richard Whelan); Angels; Tazio Secchiaroli; Yanira Segovia; Neil Selkirk; Marilyn Silverstone; Chris Verene; Nick Waplington; William Wegman; Bob Willoughby Romania; Wedding Photography; Tibor Kalman; Factories (Mexico); Edward Weston (love letters); Margaret Mather; Paul Smith. Near fine, $12.50.

23e. Aperture, No. 171. Summer 2003. Cartier-Bresson's Unknown Work; 1968: Power to the People; Larry Towell in the West Bank; Andrea Modica's Florida Primeval; Tango: Dance of the Night; In Remembrance: Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Inge Morath. Fine, $12.50.

23f. Aperture, No. 182. Summer 2006. Danto, Davis and Kant. Angola Prison: No Place to Be. Jen Davis's Self-Portraits. Sol Lewitt's Spheres. Vince Aletti on Junior Bazaar. "Snowflake" Bentley. Elinor Carucci's Dramas. Paolo Pellegrin in Darfur. Michael Famighetti on PhotoEspagnan 2005. Fine, $12.50.

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