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The Women Photographers Who Consider the Dynamics of Being Seen

At a moment when women are increasingly losing control over their own bodies, can self-representation become a form of resistance?
Mimi Plumb, The White Sky, 2020

A Blazing Suburban Gothic Imagines the American West on the Brink

In the 1970s, Mimi Plumb began photographing adolescent life and the bleached-out landscapes of California. Her suspenseful new book foretells the disasters of the present—and the future.

A Japanese Photographer’s Encounters with Natural Disasters

Eight years after a devastating tsunami, Lieko Shiga investigates Japan’s haunted landscapes.

Our Births, Ourselves

Carmen Winant’s archive considers the terrors and pleasures of childbirth.
Sam Contis, Hold Down, 2014

Photographing the Body Electric

Sam Contis’s first photobook revels in the land, skin, and mythologies of the American West.

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Aperture No. 259

Guest edited by Tanisha C. Ford, Liberated Threads explores style and fashion as a language of Black resistance, refusal, and joy. This issue features image-makers who remix and reimagine twentieth-century “soul style,” creating a contemporary dialogue between photographers, filmmakers, and stylists from around the world.

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