Aperture New Releases: Spring 2025

New York, December 19, 2024—Aperture’s publishing program underscores our legacy of collaboration with image-based artists and engagement with exciting ideas around photography. This spring, we present new volumes of work by artists including David Alekhuogie, Richard Misrach, Vik Muniz, and Carrie Mae Weems, along with fresh editions of classics by Todd Hido, An-My Lê, Sally Mann, Susan Meiselas, and Edward Weston.

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Richard Misrach: Cargo
Cargo presents Richard Misrach’s sublime meditation on the often-unseen patterns of global trade and commerce. In these monumental seascapes, cargo ships appear frozen in time—diminutive but stalwart—within an expansive, richly colored confluence of sea and sky. Eerie, sparse, and undeniably beautiful, Misrach’s images abstractly trace multiple histories: the recent collapse and slow recovery of these seafaring trade routes, the confrontation of the human and natural environment in an era of climate disaster, and a rich lineage of maritime art.

Carrie Mae Weems: The Heart of the Matter
Carrie Mae Weems: The Heart of the Matter is an illuminating overview of the renowned artist’s personal and spiritual journeys, featuring a newly commissioned series about the Black church in the US. Transcending medium, chronology, and geography, The Heart of the Matter puts the artist—and her incisive images about history and power—center stage. Contributions from esteemed scholars across generations underscore the singular value of Weems’s vision and profound influence in grappling with the complexities and injustices of the world around us.

David Alekhuogie: A Reprise
In 1935, Walker Evans was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, to photograph hundreds of African sculptures for the exhibition African Negro Art. Nearly ninety years later, David Alekhuogie began investigating Evans’s images, provocatively remixing them into his own vibrant photographic collages and confronting the legacy of authorship behind Western perceptions of African art. Alekhuogie’s images draw upon the musical idiom of the reprise—a performance of repetition—and stake a claim to crucial, restorative ideas around Black antiquity by questioning our relationship to what we consider fake or original, art or archive.

The Photography Workshop Series: Vik Muniz on Perception and the Constructed Image
In this volume of The Photography Workshop Series, Vik Muniz—known for his playful pictures that complicate what is understood as a photograph, sculpture, or painting— offers his insight into thinking creatively and seeing the familiar in new and surprising ways. Through images and words, Muniz, whose signature style appropriates and reinterprets iconic images, shares his creative practice and discusses a wide range of topics, from generating ideas and creating artworks that challenge viewers’ perceptions to thinking through collaboration, imperfection, and the interplay of subject, scale, and material.

Susan Meiselas: Nicaragua
Susan Meiselas’s Nicaragua: June 1978–July 1979 forms an extraordinary narrative of a nation in turmoil. Starting with a powerful and chilling evocation of the Somoza regime during its decline in the late 1970s, her images trace the evolution of the popular resistance that led to the triumph of the Sandinista revolution in 1979. Nicaragua includes interviews with various participants in the revolution, along with letters, poems, and statistics.

Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition
Drawing on a decades-long collaboration between the photographer and Nancy Newhall, Aperture cofounder and Museum of Modern Art curator, this reissue of The Flame of Recognition brings together a sequence of Weston’s greatest works and excerpts from his now-famed Daybooks and letters. Sixty years after its publication, Aperture is pleased to present this elegant paperback edition, which continues to offer unmatched insight into the mind, life, and work of a twentieth-century icon.

Sally Mann: At Twelve
First published by Aperture in 1988, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women is a long-sought-after reissue of an American classic. At Twelve is Sally Mann’s revealing, collective portrait of twelve-year-old girls on the verge of adulthood. To be young and female in America is a time of tremendous excitement and social possibilities; it is also a trying time, when one is caught between childhood and adulthood, and the difference is not entirely understood. This reissue of At Twelve has been printed using new scans and separations from Mann’s prints, which were taken with an 8-by-10-inch view camera, rendering them with a freshness true to the original edition.

An-My Lê: Small Wars
First published in 2005, Small Wars brings together three interconnected series that reconcile memories of Lê’s childhood in Vietnam, follow a community of Vietnam War reenactors in the US, and document the preparations of marines in the California desert as they undergo training for conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lê’s layered explorations of landscape, memory, and the representation of violence and war are as stirring as ever—and retain a vital resonance in contemporary photography.

Todd Hido: Intimate Distance
Well known for his photography of landscapes and suburban housing, and for his flair for detail and luminous color, acclaimed American photographer Todd Hido casts a distinctly cinematic gaze across all that he photographs, digging deep into his memory and imagination for inspiration. Newly revised and expanded, Intimate Distance: Over Thirty Years of Photographs, A Chronological Album includes ten years of new work since the book’s first publication, including breathtaking images from his travels to Iceland, Norway, and Japan, where he brings both a familiar eye and an expansive new vision.

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