NEW YORK, NY.- Aperture Foundation, a world-leading non-profit arts institution dedicated to promoting photography in all its forms, is the recipient of two prestigious awards for its acclaimed book program in the summer of 2010. PHotoEspaña, a celebrated international festival of photography, presented Aperture with its Outstanding Publishing House of the Year award during a ceremony last month at Teatro Español-Nave de Matadero in Madrid. The award recognizes the vital role both the publishing industry and the photobook play in presenting and distributing photography to a worldwide audience. Aperture was honored in recognition of past year’s publications, including Kamaitachi, by Eikoh Hosoe; Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s, by Ryuichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian; Sally Mann: Proud Flesh (copublished with Gagosian Gallery); and Summer Nights, Walking, by Robert Adams (copublished with Yale University Art Gal