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In Bodies of Wood, an artist challenges ideas about gender and violence.

Hear from commissioning editor Denise Wolff on Feast for the Eyes—the first book to explore photography’s rich history of food as a subject, with photographs from across fine art, fashion, photojournalism, and social networking. Author Susan Bright’s introduction and commentary in the book bring insight and intelligence to this spectacular subject, tracing the progression of…

A Wild Life is Michael “Nick” Nichols’s story, told with passion and insight by author and photo-editor Melissa Harris. Nichols’ story combines a life of adventure, with a conviction about how we can redeem the human race by protecting our wildlife. The book’s two central characters are the photographer—who journeys from the American South, via…

In 2002, Tabitha Soren first began photographing a group of minor league draft picks for the Oakland A’s—young men coming into the major league farm system straight from high school or college. Since then, she has followed the players through their baseball lives. Some of the subjects have gone on to become well-known, respected players…

Suits that pop with loud colors and dazzling patterns, complete with a nearly ubiquitous bowtie, define the style of the new “dandy.” Described as “high-styled rebels” by author Shantrelle P. Lewis, black men with a penchant for color and refined fashion, both new and vintage, have gained popular attention in recent years, influencing mainstream fashion.…

Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places is indisputably a canonic body of work—a touchstone for those interested in photography and the American landscape. Remarkably, this series of photographs has yet to be explored in its entirety. Over the past five years, Shore has scanned hundreds of negatives shot between 1973 and 1981. In this volume, Aperture has…

This Is Mars offers a thrilling visual experience of the surface of the red planet. The multi-award-winning French editor and designer Xavier Barral has chosen and composed photographic frames, drawn from the comprehensive photographic map of Mars made by the U.S. observation satellite MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter), to revel in the wonder of Mars. Now…

In the Bay Area photographer’s retrospective, family, home life, and American suburbia take center stage.

A book with “cinematic ﬂair”; “a quasicinematic, nonlinear narrative”; “raw, cinematic, stream-of-consciousness”—you hear these things about photobooks all the time. But what exactly is this cinematic aspect of these publications? And what is the relationship between cinema and the photobook at large? The historical interconnection goes back to the very beginning of both mediums. As…

How have West Coast photographers subverted the mythology of California?

Presenting the five finalists for the 2017 Aperture Portfolio Prize, an international photography competition.

From the air, photographer Chang Kim discovers a city that never was.

Amos Mulder is a video artist whose works include visual responses to found footage, texts, and photographic images; he describes his series as “video haikus,” adding that “I love to explore these parallel universes and catch their atmospheres and governing principles in short ﬁlms. While rooted in the history of cinema, these ﬁlms are also…

Aperture recently spoke with Eric Gottesman about photographic liberation.

A new exhibition in Seattle explores the ambiguity of what is yet to come

What is the role of the photographer in our new political order? Seven visionaries respond.

When Fidel Castro died in November, photographer Noah Friedman-Rudovsky followed the final journey of Cuba’s comandante.

Three celebrated photographers push the limits of sexuality and surveillance.