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Max Pinckers is Raising the Stakes

In his latest book, the photographer asks how news media grapple with fiction and lies in the “post-truth” era.

Revolutionary Roads

From Addis Ababa to Johannesburg, Guy Tillim photographs the streets named for Africa’s military leaders.

Two Artists Interrogate the "White Gaze" of National Geographic

Pairing archival images and text, Michelle Dizon and Việt Lê pose a razor-sharp critique of colonialism.

A Human Cartography of Collective Struggles

In his recent photobook, Martín Weber negotiates the past and the future in Latin America.

Marc Feustel on Photobooks After 3/11

It has been four years since the Great Tohoku Earthquake unleashed a series of tsunami waves which…

Matthew Carson on Takashi Homma

One of the first things that you may notice about the words on the spine and on…

These Queer PhotoBooks Changed My Life

Eleven curators, writers, and artists reflect on images of queer identity past and present.

What is a Photo-Text Book?

Since the nineteenth century, photographers and writers have collaborated as equals—to varying degrees of success.

The PhotoBook Review 016: Editor's Note

What’s the point of having an obsession if you can’t share it with other people?

Three Women Photographers Reclaim the American Landscape

Susan Lipper, Kristine Potter, and Justine Kurland deconstruct the mythology of the Wild West.

How to Make Books that Sing Like Sinatra

Keith Smith on the elaborate art of sequencing pictures.

The Photobook Publisher with a Deceptively Subtle Touch

For Roma Publications, the artist’s vision is front and center.

Roe Ethridge on Getting It Exactly Wrong

In dizzying sequences, the irreverent photographer embraces risk and failure.

From August Sander, Stirring Portraits of Nazis and Jews

An extraordinary photobook reveals the lives of persecuted Germans during World War II.

What Does Photo Editing Look Like?

In the digital age, locking down a sequence of images in print can seem like an act of resistance.

Energy Charts and Cosmic Light

Working between portraiture and documentary, Khalik Allah’s new book tracks Harlem by night.

A Hidden History of Abortion

Laia Abril’s new book provides a harrowing record of women’s struggles to access family planning.

Our Births, Ourselves

Carmen Winant’s archive considers the terrors and pleasures of childbirth.
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Aperture 254

This spring, Aperture presents “Counter Histories,” an issue produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation and informed by their ongoing Counter Histories grant initiative, featuring artists from around the world who tell new stories about how the past informs the present.