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On the Cover: A Conversation with Samuel Gratacap

A young photographer reports on the odyssey of our time.

Photography at the Altar: A Conversation about Diversity in Athens

A Greek photographer’s account of religious communities in Athens reveals a new vision of multicultural Europe.

An Interview with Rosalind Fox Solomon

Francine Prose speaks with Fox Solomon about the themes animating her career in photography: ritual, religion, gender, and travel.

Images of Conviction: A Conversation with Diane Dufour and Xavier Barral

An award-winning exhibition catalogue examines the power of photography in representing crime, war, and acts of violence.

Dust to Dust: A Conversation with David Campany

In an exhibition inspired by Man Ray’s “Dust Breeding,” David Campany charts the strange career of a surrealist photograph.

For a New World to Come

Curator Yasufumi Nakamori discusses his game-changing show of Japanese photography with Aperture magazine editor Michael Famighetti.

A Conversation with David Shields

David Shields’s War Is Beautiful critiques sixty-four photographs of war that ran on the front page of the Times between 1997 and 2013.

Hiroji Kubota Photographer

Here, in an excerpt from the book, Aperture Foundation’s executive director Chris Boot speaks with Kubota about his beginnings as a photographer.

Exhibition: Paul Graham on The Whiteness of the Whale at Pier 24 Photography

San Francisco’s Pier 24 Photography recently opened Paul Graham’s exhibition The Whiteness of the Whale, the venue’s first-ever presentation of a single artist.

An Archival Interview with Richard Misrach

The following conversation between Aperture Foundation editor-in-chief, Melissa Harris, and Richard Misrach was recorded at his California studio in March 1992.

Bruce Davidson’s Life and Work in Photography

Davidson won acclaim for his images of Brooklyn gangs and the civil rights movement. Here, he speaks about about walking the streets of Paris with Cartier-Bresson—and of the constant photographic challenge of getting past the obvious.

Highlights from From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola

Curators Sarah Meister, who focused on Horacio Coppola, and Roxana Marcoci, who researched Grete Stern, offer comments and insights into key works in the exhibition.

Kathrin Sonntag On Her Installation, This Was Tomorrow Once

Berlin-based artist Kathrin Sonntag was commissioned to create one of twelve new photography-based projects for RAY 2015.

On Chance and Photography

To what degree is photography dependent on chance? Robin Kelsey tackles this question in his new book, Photography and the Art of Chance.

David Wojnarowicz and Nan Goldin

From Aperture Magazine #147: David Wojnarowicz and Nan Goldin sat down to talk about record, memory, and the evolution of their work.

Zanele Muholi's Faces & Phases

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

Lucas Foglia on "Human-Altered Landscapes"

Lucas Foglia on photographing the transformation of the American west.

Doug DuBois on Kickstarting My Last Day at Seventeen

This month Aperture launched a Kickstarter campaign to ensure the publication of My Last Day at Seventeen by Doug DuBois.

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Aperture Magazine No. 261, “The Craft Issue” Cover
Aperture Magazine

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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