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Vicki Goldberg: Russian Photography Looks at the Past

Vicki Goldberg reports back from a 2013 trip to Russia, about an exhibition of Soviet propaganda.

Site Specific: Introduction by Christopher Phillips

An excerpt from Christopher Phillips’s introduction to Site Specific: Photographs by Olivo Barbieri.

Back In Black

Fred Ritchin files a dispatch from Les Rencontres d’Arles.

Sarah Charlesworth (1947–2013)

James Welling remembers fellow photographer Sarah Charlesworth.

Out of Nowhere: Photography in Cambodia

Leeza Ahmady and Erin Gleeson survey young Cambodian landscape photographers, via Creative Time Reports.

Mali's Era of Independence, in Photos

An essay on Malian photographer Adama Kouyaté, via Creative Time Reports.

On Travess Smalley's Capture Physical Presence

Lorenzo Durantini discusses Travess Smalley’s productive yet challenging relationship to photography.

Luigi Ghirri: Kodachrome

Luigi Ghirri’s short written exposé on his sources for inspiration. This essay was included in Aperture’s 2008 volume It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It.

Swiping at Pictures

Curator Christopher Y. Lew discusses our changing relationship to technology and to the Internet.

Lingua Photographica

Brooklyn-based writer and curator Gene McHugh dissects photography’s role within the real world and the virtual world.

At Home with the Fotohof

Writer and curator Amanda Hopkinson guides us through the pioneering reinvention of the Fotohof photography gallery which opened in Salzburg, Austria, February 2012.

Tim Davis – The Neighborhood Ketchup Ad

From Aperture 209: Tim Davis considers the photographic history of American housing.
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Aperture No. 261

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.

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