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Aperture Foundation

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Nonprofit arts institution

Aperture Foundation is a nonprofit arts institution, founded in 1952 by Ansel Adams, Minor White, Barbara Morgan, Dorothea Lange, Nancy Newhall, Beaumont Newhall, Ernest Louie, Melton Ferris, and Dody Warren. Their vision was to create a forum for fine art photography, a new concept at the time. The first issue of the magazine Aperture was published in spring 1952 in San Francisco.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

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Aperture Foundation is a nonprofit arts institution, founded in 1952 by Ansel Adams, Minor White, Barbara Morgan, Dorothea Lange, Nancy Newhall, Beaumont Newhall, Ernest Louie, Melton Ferris, and Dody Warren. Their vision was to create a forum for fine art photography, a new concept at the time. The first issue of the magazine Aperture was published in spring 1952 in San Francisco.2

Products and brands

The Aperture Portfolio Prize is an annual international competition to discover, exhibit, and publish new talents in photography.

Winners:

2006: Hiroshi Watanabe

2007: Julio Bittencourt

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2008: Michael Corridore

2009: Alexander Gronsky

2010: David Favrod

2011: Sarah Palmer

2013: Bryan Schutmaat

2014: Amy Elkins

2015: Drew Nikonowicz

2016: Eli Durst

2017: Natalie Krick

2018: Ka-Man Tse

2019: Mark McKnight

2020: Dannielle Bowman

2021: Donavon Smallwood

2022: Felipe Romero Beltrán

2023: Vân-Nhi Nguyen

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