One of the highlights of this year's competition has been working with our guest curators to offer you awards throughout the entry period. For our third month, we're proud and excited to share that Lesley A. Martin, Publisher of Aperture's Book Program, and a HHS! panelist, will be our Guest Curator. She will be reviewing all entries submitted by June 17th, and and will select one photographer to receive an incredible selection of books from Aperture's shelves.
Aperture, with which many of you are already familiar, is simply a remarkable photography institution, created out the vision of legendary photographers, curators and artists—Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange among them. Since 1952, when Aperture was founded, it has expanded to also include a gallery and publishing house, releasing books by artists including Robert Adams, Bruce Davidson, Sally Mann, Stephen Shore and many others of equal renown.
As Publisher of Aperture's book program, Lesley has edited dozens and dozens of gorgeous titles, ranging from An-My Lê's Small Wars and Richard Misrach's On the Beach to The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography by Lyle Rexer, reinforcing that Aperture's reach as a non-profit arts institution is also about constant advancement of photography as a fine art.
Lesley, and Aperture, will generously award the following titles to one contender who applies by Thursday, June 17th.
Words Without Pictures by Charlotte Cotton
Sawdust Mountain by Eirik Johnson (an exhibit of this work is on view at the Aperture Gallery till June 10th)
Winter Stories by Paolo Ventura
Photography After Frank by Philip Gefter
Legacy by Joel Meyerowitz
Explosions, Fires, and Public Order by Sarah Pickering
Kamaitachi (trade edition) by Eikoh Hosoe
Whether you're a book lover, photography lover, or both, this is a truly covetous selection of beautifully produced titles, so we encourage you to get your entries in as soon as you can! The photographer Lesley selects will be announced in our newsletter in early July, featured here on the blog, and notified by email!