Wildly prolific, the late French writer was driven, compulsive, and rarely satisfied—and his own little-known photographs remain as elusive as ever.
An exhibition at the Jewish Museum shows how the American magazine has been a force since the 1930s, with photography defining the “modern look” of a new era.
What does an insatiable collector do when all of New York’s bookstores and markets are closed?
Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.