Aperture PhotoBook Club Loves New York

Aperture’s editor in chief, Michael Famighetti, and Sarah Meister will be joined by a wonderful group of friends from across New York’s media and photography communities—Paul Moakley from The New Yorker, Miwa Susuda from Dashwood Books, Elisabeth Sherman from the Museum of the City of New York, and Nicole Acheampong from T Magazine—to discuss a selection of photobooks that have helped to shape our understanding of New York City.

Aperture has a rich and vibrant history of publishing photographs made in New York and by New Yorkers. To reflect on the unique and enduring relationship between city and artist, Aperture’s executive director Sarah Meister is curating a selection of photographs of New York that will be featured in Aperture’s new home on the Upper West Side—alongside the Aperture books in which these images appear. Please join us for this special edition of the Club to celebrate these influential titles.

Aperture PhotoBook Club events are free and open to all. Support for the 2026 Aperture PhotoBook Club is generously provided by FotoFocus.

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Image: Lee Friedlander, New York City, 1959, from Lee Friedlander: Life Still (2026);