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Mimi Plumb, The White Sky, 2020

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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

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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. 257

Aperture presents “Image Worlds to Come: Photography & AI,” a timely and urgent issue that explores how artificial intelligence is quickly transforming the field of photography and our broader culture of images.

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