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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.

Inside the Spring Party with Penelope Umbrico

For the first-ever Spring Party, Aperture teams up with Penelope Umbrico to offer prints from her Moving Mountains series.

Q&A: Peter Barberie on Paul Strand

Aperture spoke to the Philadelphia Museum of Art about the work of Paul Strand, the subject of retrospective traveling to the Fotomuseum Winterthur on March 7.

War photographers and reporters on "Telling Afghanistan"

At the Brooklyn Brewery, a group of photographers and reporters explored why they report on war.

Bernard Plossu on Movies and Mexico

An interview with the Jack Kerouac of photography in France, Bernard Plossu.

Revisiting the Sequence: Minor White at the Getty Center

A conversation with Paul Martineau, curator of Minor White: Manifestations of the Spirit at the J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles

Workshop Instructor Profile: Rob Hornstra (Video)

Rob Hornstra of ‘The Sochi Project’ shares insight on storytelling during his weekend workshop at Aperture.

Olivia Bee's Photographic Love Letters

Aperture speaks with photographer Olivia Bee about her imaginative, dreamlike work.

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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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