Aperture New Releases: Fall 2025

New York, July 14, 2025—This fall, Aperture’s book program highlights emerging photographers, fresh perspectives on historical figures, and provocative writings on the culture of images.
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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.

Publication date: August 12, 2025.

Vik Muniz on Photography, Mind, and Matter

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 insights into thinking creatively and seeing the familiar in new and surprising ways. Through words and photographs, Muniz discusses his artistic practice, his varied approaches to appropriating and reinterpreting iconic images, and reflects on a wide range of topics, from fabricating images and objects that challenge viewers’ perceptions to collaboration, imperfection, and the interplay of subject, scale, and material.

Publication date: August 19, 2025.

Tyler Mitchell: Wish This Was Real

Tyler Mitchell’s photography is animated by dreams of paradise and joy against the backdrop of history. Since his rise to prominence in the worlds of photography and fashion, Mitchell has created images of beauty, utopia, and the American landscape that expand the imaginary of Blackness in the twenty-first century.

Wish This Was Real is the definitive early-career survey of Mitchell’s work, from his genre-bending portraits to his photographs printed on diaphanous fabrics and sculptures that reference Black intellectual history. Offering new perspectives by leading writers on his long-standing themes of self-determination and the extraordinary radiance of the everyday, the volume shows how photography can be rooted in a collective past while evoking imagined futures. Published to coincide with a major solo exhibition traveling in Europe through 2026.

Publication date: September 23, 2025.

Coreen Simpson: A Monograph 

The second title in Aperture’s Vision & Justice Book Series, created and coedited by Drs. Sarah Lewis, Leigh Raiford, and Deborah Willis, showcases the wide-ranging contributions of an essential artist.

Coreen Simpson—photographer, writer, jeweler—has done it all. Working for publications such as Essence and The Village Voice, from the early 1980s onward, Simpson covered New York’s art and fashion scenes, producing portraits of a wide range of Black artists, literary figures, and celebrities. Her iconic jewelry, the Black Cameo, has been worn by everyone from the model Iman to civil-rights leader Rosa Parks.

This long-awaited volume, Simpson’s first, features her celebrated B-Boys series—portraits of young people during the early years of hip-hop—as well as her experiments with collage and other formal interventions. Essays and an interview offer reflections on Simpson’s unique blend of portraiture, sartorial politics, and her riveting story of an intrepid life in journalism, art, and fashion.

Publication date: October 14, 2025.

Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules

Ground Rules is the first comprehensive, fully bilingual survey charting the career of the prolific Mexico-based photographer. Celebrated for his photobooks Carpoolers (2014) and A Small Guide to Homeownership (2020), Cartagena is known for his formally engaging and socially incisive images that span the politics of the US-Mexico border, suburban sprawl, and the increasing wealth disparities in North America.

Ground Rules deploys a diverse array of photographic formats, from documentary and collage to the appropriation of vernacular photographs and AI-generated imagery, all unified by Cartagena’s commitment to addressing Mexico’s most pressing social and environmental issues with humor and pathos. Published to coincide with a mid-career solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from November 2025 through May 2026.

Publication date: November 11, 2025.

Takuma Nakahira: At the Limits of the Gaze
An Aperture Ideas Book

At the Limits of the Gaze collects in English for the first time the writings of photographer and critic Takuma Nakahira. A crucial figure within the history of Japanese photography, Nakahira is best known outside of Japan as a founding member of Provoke, the experimental magazine first published in 1968. As part of a dynamic moment of artistic and political experimentation in Tokyo, he wrote on a range of topics hardly limited to photography: art, film, journalism, literature, radical politics, television, and more. Nakahira’s essays teem with urgency, relentlessly interrogating the connection between language and imagery, the gaze, and photography’s relationship to power.

Publication date: November 14, 2025.

Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast 

In 1954, the American photographer Berenice Abbott set out to document the historic US Route 1, predicting seismic changes to small towns and major cities along the road brought by the rapidly expanding Interstate Highway System. Inspired by Abbott’s acute and poetic observations on life along this major north–south artery, the Miami-based photographer Anastasia Samoylova ventured on her own journey from Florida to Maine to revisit those communities and document the shifting American landscape transformed by the unrelenting expansion of industry, commerce, and development. Atlantic Coast will accompany a related exhibition at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, opening in November 2025.

Publication date: November 18, 2025.

Hal Fischer: Seminal Works

In the late 1970s, as gay men in San Francisco experienced a new sense of freedom following the Stonewall Uprising, Hal Fischer made Gay Semiotics, a photo-text project that categorized denizens of the Castro and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods by social type such as the “jock” or “hippie.” Sly and systematic, Fischer portrayed the sartorial codes of queer street style— earrings, handkerchiefs, jeans, or leather—that broadcast a range of desires to potential sexual prospects. The series became an influential record of a libertine era before AIDS, the rise of internet dating apps, and tech industry–accelerated gentrification transformed queer life forever. Tracing the formation of an essential American artist, Hal Fischer: Seminal Works includes Gay Semiotics together with Fischer’s rarely seen early photography, and features essays that offer vital new perspectives on the history of San Francisco and the resonance of the gay rights movement across generations.

Publication date: January 20, 2026.

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