Photobooks

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Library as Studio

Where do artists go for inspiration? For some, it’s a museum, for others, it’s the stacks.

Editor's Note

Libraries multiply the audience for a book—almost without limit.

The '90s are Back

Six artists on the photobook at the end of the millennium.

Alec Soth Revisits His Legendary First Book

How the American photographer fell in love with photography.

Where the Homeless Sleep

Anthony Hernandez takes a hard look at the neglected landscapes of Los Angeles.

The PhotoBook as a Literary Form

Teju Cole’s first photobook unfolds the possibilities of text and image.

The Offset Artist

From Dayanita Singh, a portable museum in book form.

Across a Racial Divide, Images of Daily Life under Apartheid

An innovative book juxtaposes images from the archives of two South African families—one black, and one white.

The Humanist Visions of Santu Mofokeng

In a series of photobooks from the revered South African photographer, stories of grace, beauty, and dignity.

Pictograms of Lars von Trier

In still lifes and portraits, Casper Sejersen reinterprets the script of Nymphomaniac.

What Does it Take to Make a Successful Photobook?

Hear from past PhotoBook Awards winners and shortlisted artists on the ins and outs of book making.

The Mexican Fotonovela

How comic books illustrated with photographs became a great popular art form.

Martine Stig's Sun-Drenched Amsterdam

In an unusual photobook, images move like the rhythm of free jazz.

Designer Spotlight: Sebastian Hau in conversation with Pierre Hourquet

How does the designer of the sold-out Provoke catalogue conceive of new photobooks?

The Book of Film

How do filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard and Sofia Coppola translate moving images to the printed page?…

A Short History of the African Photobook

For Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, publisher of Fourthwall Books, the photobook is a space for political and social history.

Editor's Note

A book with “cinematic flair”; “a quasicinematic, nonlinear narrative”; “raw, cinematic, stream-of-consciousness”—you hear these things about photobooks…

Robert Adams on Gregory Halpern, ZZYZX

D. H. Lawrence admired the American Southwest but found Southern California troubling: “In a way, it has…
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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.