On 30th April the winners of the 88th Art Directors Club Awards were announced. The list includes two Aperture-published titles acknowledged for Design in Print in Photography:
Erwin Olaf, featuring photographs by Dutch photographer, Erwin Olaf, took a silver cube award, and,
The Transparent City, featuringphotographs by Michael Wolf, took gold.
The Aperture Foundation was established in 1952 as a not for profit organisation promoting photography. It was set up by a group of historians, writers and photographers including Beaumont Newhall, Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Barbara Morgan, and Minor White.
The Foundation has been affected by the financial downturn and announced cut backs in staffing levels from 41 to 34, with some staff members taking reduced salaries for a short period. Aperture also intends to reduce the number of titles published each year.
Aperture's art gallery in New York will not be affected by the cuts and its planned programme of artist talks, discussions and exhibitions will go ahead. The Foundation is known for its quarterly magazine Aperture and publication of this will continue.
