Photographer Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao’s images of New York are distinctive – both personal, and hyperreal. With painstaking care and the use of multiple large-format film exposures, Liao “stitches” each image together with technical precision to create detail-driven panoramas of the urban landscape. With the publication of his latest monograph, New York, we visited Liao at…

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The world—and the word—is in the process of becoming less and less dependent on paper. Our reading habits, especially as they occur in public spaces, are subtly shifting each day. Reinier Gerritsen has taken up the current plethora of books and their readers on New York City’s subways as the proverbial canary-in-the-coal-mine, an indicator of…

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Since Amelia was 3 years old, she has been her mother’s muse and the subject of her photographs. Her mother, the photographer Robin Schwartz, has been working for twelve years on this ongoing collaborative series, dedicated to documenting her and Amelia’s adventures among the animals. As Amelia has gotten older, she’s become a more active…

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Aperture’s Fall 2014 book release, The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip is the first book to explore the photographic road trip as a genre. It opens with a comprehensive introduction, which traces the rise of road culture in America and considers photographers on the move across the country and across the century,…

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Photographer James Mollison and writer Jon Ronson recall their playground memories with Aperture Executive Director Chris Boot preceding the opening reception of the Playground exhibition at Aperture Gallery in New York. Mollison photographs children at play in their school playgrounds, inspired by memories of his own childhood and interested in how we all learn to…

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An interview with Kathy Ryan, director of photography at the New York Times Magazine, on her recently published photobook Office Romance. Mostly shot on the sixth floor of the landmark Renzo Piano-designed New York Times building, where she works as director of photography at the New York Times Magazine, Ryan captures moments of lumi­nous beauty…

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Erwin Olaf’s approach to storytelling is uniquely evocative and enticingly ambiguous. Erwin Olaf: Volume II is a presentation of his most recent work, through which he expands on his established style of highly polished and stylized color studio images. This new volume showcases Olaf at the height of his powers as an artisan of atmosphere…

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Artist Sama Alshaibi talks about her newest book, Sand Rushes In. Alshaibi’s lyrical multimedia work explores the landscape of conflict: the ongoing competition for land, resources, and power in North Africa and West Asia, and the internal battle for control between fear and fearlessness. Alshaibi uses the desert, borders, and the body as overarching symbols…

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On June 3, 2014, Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen joined us at our gallery to discuss The Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus. The project offers an alternative perspective and in-depth reporting on the remarkable Sochi region that sits at the combustible crossroads of war, tourism, and history. They…

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Doug DuBois was first introduced to a group of teenagers from the Russell Heights housing estate while he was an artist-in-residence at the Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, on the southwest coast of Ireland. He was fascinated by the insular neighborhood, in which “everyone seems to be someone’s cousin, former girlfriend, or spouse. Little can happen…

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