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On Hugh Mangum

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Issue 15 of the Aperture Photography App is Now Available

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Staff Picks: 6 Instagram Accounts to Follow

Members of the Aperture Foundation staff selected our favorite photography-related Instagram accounts of the moment.

Grand Illusions: Staged Photography from the Met Collection

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The Interview Issue Aperture #220 – Editors' Note

Aperture magazine’s editors on our Fall 2015 issue and its nine in-depth interviews.

Issue 14 of the Aperture Photography App is Now Available

The new issue of the Aperture Photography App is now available to download on your iOS device. Every issue of the Aperture Photography App is free on iTunes.

Altered Images at the Bronx Documentary Center

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Staff Picks: 7 Instagram Accounts We're Following

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Images of Conviction at Le Bal, Paris

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Tonight: The BlowUp Hosts Live Storytelling Event in NYC

Presented and produced by the photography blog Feature Shoot, The Blow Up brings together a curated selection of influential photographers each telling the story.

LaToya Ruby Frazier: Selected Works Walkthrough

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Report from the Shanghai Center of Photography

The newly opened Shanghai Center of Photography promises an ambitious array of photography exhibitions in its inaugural year.

James Mollison and Jon Ronson on "Playground"

James Mollison and writer Jon Ronson recall their playground memories preceding the opening reception of the “Playground” exhibition at Aperture Gallery in New York.

Late April Readings on Photography

The Aperture staff shares what we have been reading about photography.

Zanele Muholi's Faces & Phases

A conversation with the Johannesburg-based photographer about photography and activism, her latest series, Black Beauties, and her influences.

Five Photography Exhibitions to See in New York this April

Photography exhibitions around New York City.

Tokyo Diary

Aperture magazine’s editors spent three weeks in Tokyo researching and assembling our Summer issue of the magazine, dedicated to photography from Japan.
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Aperture Magazine No. 261, “The Craft Issue” Cover
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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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