At a moment when women are increasingly losing control over their own bodies, can self-representation become a form of resistance?
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.
Eight years after a devastating tsunami, Lieko Shiga investigates Japan’s haunted landscapes.
Carmen Winant’s archive considers the terrors and pleasures of childbirth.
Sam Contis’s first photobook revels in the land, skin, and mythologies of the American West.
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.
