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Aperture No. 255
From fashion to architecture to the printed page, this issue considers how photography and design frame our daily lives.
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Aperture 223
Addresses the role of photography in the African American experience, guest edited by Sarah Lewis, distinguished author and art historian.
$20.97
Aperture 237
Wolfgang Tillmans guest-edits Aperture’s “Spirituality” issue, which features contributions by artists, scientists, and writers who examine the different ways photography has been used to represent humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity.
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Aperture No. 256
Aperture’s “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra” explores family, society, and the cosmic through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson.
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Aperture No. 255 Bundle
Collect all 3 covers of Aperture’s Design Issue, featuring photographs by David Hartt, Luigi Ghirri, and Dayanita Singh.
$52.40
Aperture No. 255
From fashion to architecture to the printed page, this issue considers how photography and design frame our daily lives.
$17.47
Aperture 254
“Counter Histories” features artists and photographers from around the world who tell new stories about how the past informs the present.
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Aperture 253
“Desire”—featuring an exclusive interview with Juergen Teller on the occasion of his Paris retrospective—presents a look at how photographs are expressions of our wants, needs, and wishes.
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Aperture 252
Guest edited by the New York–based artist Lyle Ashton Harris and the Accra-based photographer and educator Nii Obodai, Aperture 252 considers the Ghanaian capital as a site of dynamic photographic voices and histories that connect visual culture in West Africa to the world.
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Aperture 251
Guest edited by Stephanie Hueon Tung, “Being & Becoming: Asian in America,” considers how artists use the medium of photography to grapple with questions of visibility, belonging, and what it means to be Asian American.
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Aperture 250
“We Make Pictures in Order to Live” explores the relationship between photography and storytelling across generations and geographies. Featuring visual stories that excite, surprise, and illuminate daily life, this issue’s title is a nod to the late, celebrated writer Joan Didion, who declared, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Aperture contributors explore the quiet poetry— or clamoro...
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Aperture 249
“Reference” considers the role images play in the creation of something else. What can a photograph do? Spanning fashion design, architecture, film, and print, the artists featured in this issue borrow and quote from their source material to create transformative works that are all their own.
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Aperture 248
The 70th Anniversary issue features seven original commissions by leading photographers and artists, and seven essays about Aperture’s legacy by award-winning writers and critics.
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Aperture 247
“Sleepwalking,” guest edited by Alec Soth, explores photography’s relationship to dreams, wakefulness, and chance.
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Aperture 246
An issue that considers ceremonies, festivities‚ and how close observation can honor everyday life.
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Aperture 245
An issue that celebrates the dynamic visions of Latinx photography throughout the United States.
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Aperture 244
An issue exploring the idea of cosmologies—the origins, histories, and local universes that artists create for themselves.
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Aperture 243
An issue focused on the relationship between photography, urbanism, and activist trajectories from within and outside Delhi.
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Aperture 242
Marking the one-year anniversary of New York’s shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Aperture magazine’s “New York” issue honors the city through photographs and essays by visionary artists and writers.
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Aperture 241
In “Utopia,” artists, photographers, and writers envision a world without prisons, document visionary architecture, honor queer space and creativity, and dream of liberty through spiritual self-expression. They show us that utopia is not a far-fetched scheme, but rather a way of reshaping our future.
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Aperture 240
This fall, as debates around nationalism and borders in North America reach a fever pitch, Aperture releases “Native America,” a special issue about photography and Indigenous lives, guest edited by the artist Wendy Red Star.
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Aperture 239
Few works have impacted the world of photography like Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. Published by Aperture in 1986, Aperture magazine returns to an iconic work with “Ballads,” a special issue featuring an exclusive interview with Goldin as well as a section curated by the artist dedicated to her influences.
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Aperture 238
This issue considers the meanings and forms of domestic spaces, and the relationships between architecture, design, and photography.
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Aperture 237
Wolfgang Tillmans guest-edits Aperture’s “Spirituality” issue, which features contributions by artists, scientists, and writers who examine the different ways photography has been used to represent humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity.
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Aperture 236
This issue illuminates the diverse image culture in North America’s largest metropolis and the ways Mexican photographers are pushing new visions in the medium.
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Aperture 235
This issue of Aperture, guest-edited by Tilda Swinton, draws upon the themes of Virginia Woolf’s prescient 1928 novel Orlando, revolutionary in both form and spirit, to offer original images and writings that celebrate openness, curiosity, and human possibility.
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Aperture 234
This issue considers the natural world in the age of climate change, extreme weather, and dramatically politicized landscapes.
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Aperture 233
This issue considers how artists and photographers have chronicled their relationships to their families and chosen communities, and takes an expanded view of what families can be.
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Aperture 232
Aperture's “Los Angeles” issue explores how one of America’s most photographed cities is also an essential hub for some of today’s most important photography and photo-based art. Part of an ongoing series of issues that profile the photographic culture of a particular city, “Los Angeles” features key figures in the photography community.
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Aperture 231
The summer issue of Aperture magazine considers the influence of photography on leading filmmakers, and the role of cinema in the work of artists and photographers. Featuring in-depth interviews with Sofia Coppola, Shirin Neshat, and Gus Van Sant, and contributions by Negar Azimi, David Campany, J. Hoberman, Alex Prager, RaMell Ross, Antwaun Sargent, Dayanita Singh, and Dana Stevens, among others.
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Aperture 230
This issue addresses the unique role photography plays in creating a visual record of the national crisis of mass incarceration.
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Aperture 229
The Winter edition of Aperture magazine is a landmark issue dedicated to the representation of transgender lives, communities, and histories in photography. Guest edited by Zackary Drucker, the artist, activist, and producer of the acclaimed television series Transparent, “Future Gender” considers how trans and gender-nonconforming individuals have used photography to imagine new expressions of so...
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Aperture 228
Aperture’s “Elements of Style” issue investigates the role of style, dress, and beauty in the formation of individual identity.
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Aperture 227
Aperture takes an in-depth look at the dynamic spaces that have shaped conversations about photography in Africa for the last twenty-five years—the biennials, experimental art spaces, and educational workshops in which artists and audiences interact with photography.
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Aperture 226
This issue offers an urgent reflection on photography, labor, and community as debates about the economic future of the United States continue into a controversial presidential administration.
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Aperture 225
“On Feminism” focuses on intergenerational dialogues, debates, and strategies of feminism in photography and considers the immense contributions by artists whose work articulates or interrogates representations of women in media and society. Across more than one hundred years of photographs and images, “On Feminism” underscores how photography has shaped feminism as much as how feminism has shaped...
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Aperture 224
This issue delves into the relationship between sound and image. How have photographers drawn inspiration from music? How have cultures of image making developed in tandem with music making? Whether capturing an intoxicating performance, or individuals lost in dance or caught in an ecstatic moment of listening, photographs give form to the ways sounds move us.
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Aperture 223
Addresses the role of photography in the African American experience, guest edited by Sarah Lewis, distinguished author and art historian.
$20.97
Aperture 223
Addresses the role of photography in the African American experience, guest edited by Sarah Lewis, distinguished author and art historian.
$20.97
Aperture 221
This issue, a collaboration between Aperture and Performa, the nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in visual art, takes a capacious approach to considering the intersections of photography and performance.
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Aperture 220
Must-read conversations with nine of the world’s most influential photographers.
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Aperture 217
Words as inspiration for image making, words as images, images as open-ended fictions, documentary under the influence of fiction— these are just some of the ways in which image and language brush up against each other in this issue.
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Aperture 216
Produced in collaboration with the groundbreaking duo Inez & Vinoodh, this issue explores the role of image quotation and reference in fashion photography.
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Aperture 215
Featuring some of the best photography and critical writing being produced in Brazil today, as seen through the prism of the dynamic city of São Paulo.
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Aperture 214
Created in conjunction with Magnum Foundation and guest editor Susan Meiselas, "Documentary, Expanded" explores a cross-section of critical questions for practicing documentarians today, when the old models for producing and disseminating work have disappeared.
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Aperture 213
Leading curators, historians, writers, and publishers introduce ten photographers they believe have been overlooked or are undervalued, and deserve more attention today.
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Aperture 212
Taking its name from the 1967 film by Jacques Tati, this issue explores how photography illuminates, facilitates, and participates in the many definitions of play-from role-play and sex-play to theater and jokes to leisure and fantasy.
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Aperture 211
Between science and art, revisiting photography’s role in discovery and experimentation.
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Aperture 210
This edition of Aperture relaunches the redesigned magazine under the title “Hello, Photography,” a playful nod to Daido Moriyama’s seminal project Bye, Bye Photography.
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Aperture 208
Portfolios and Essays from Simon Norfolk, Anne Wilkes Tucker, Will Michels, and Natalie Zelt, Aaron Schuman on Thomas Barrow, Chris Wiley on Lucas Blalock, Francine Prose on George Georgiou, Sylvia Plachy, Bertien van Manen, Chris Killip and Michael Almereyda, Mary Panzer, and Shomei Tomatsu.
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Aperture 207
Portfolios and Essays from Martin Parr, Carole Naggar on Jean Depara, Daniel Naudé, Sylvia Plachy, Francine Prose on Judy Linn, Jason Fulford and Aaron Schuman, Stephanie Sinclair, Melissa Harris on Robert Delpire, and Fred Ritchin on Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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Aperture 206
Portfolios and Essays from Lieko Shiga and Mariko Takeuchi, Aurthur Ou and Walter Benn Michaels, Robert Farris Thompson, Sylvia Plachy, David Campany, Paula Luttringer and Victoria Verlichak, Viviane Sassen and Aaron Schuman, Eugène Atget and Geoff Dyer.
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Aperture 205
Portfolios and Essays from Nick Waplington, Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, David Goldbatt and Ivan Vladislavic, Stephen Shore, Charles Bowden, Julia Peirone, Sam Falls and Lesley A. Martin, Bill Cunningham and Vince Aletti.
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Aperture 204
Portfolios and Essays from Tod Papageorge and John Pilson, Cyprien Gaillard and Brian Dillon, Mary Panzer, Rimaldas Vikšraitis and Martin Parr, Lois Conner, Trevor Paglen and David Levi Strauss, Yasmine El Rashidi, Allan Sekula, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Mark Sealy, Thomas Keenan, Atom Egoyan, Alfredo Jaar, Deborah Willis, David Cole, Ariella Azoulay, Lynsey Addario, Fred Ritchin, Anne Nivat, Pieran...
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Aperture 203
Portfolios and Essays from Daido Moriyama and Ivan Vartanian, Lindeka Qampi and Sandra S. Phillips, Hans-Peter Feldmann and Mark Alice Durant, Mo Yi and Gu Zheng, Helen Sear and Jason Evans, Richard Mosse and Aaron Schuman, Trisha Donnelly and Arthur Ou, and Paolo Ventura.
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Aperture 202
Portfolios and Essays from Geraldo De Barros and Fernando Castro, Greil Marcus, Luisa Lambri and Susan Morgan, Camille Silvy and Mark Haworth-Booth, Mary Panzer, Yann Gross, Sara VanDerBeek and Brain Sholis, Hannah Arendt, Garry Winogrand and Ulrich Baer, Collier Schorr and Vince Aletti.
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Aperture 201
Portfolios and Essays from Lynsey Addario and Elizabeth Rubin, Aïm Deüelle Lüski and Ariella Azoulay, Lucia Nimcova and Clare Butcher, Willy Ronis and Carole Naggar, Ben Sloat, Axel Hoedt and Magdalene Keaney, Roger Ballen and Walter Guadagnini.
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Aperture 200 (Clare Strand Cover)
Portfolios and Essays from Keith Calhoun, Chandra McCormick, and Deborah Willis, Max Blagg and Barney Kulok, Salvador Toscano, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, and David M. J. Wood, Lucas Foglia, Martin Parr and Óscar Fernando Gómez, Clare Strand and David Campany, Mike Mandel and Aaron Schuman, Eric Fischl and E.L. Doctorow.
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Aperture 200
Portfolios and Essays from Keith Calhoun, Chandra McCormick, and Deborah Willis, Max Blagg and Barney Kulok, Salvador Toscano, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, and David M. J. Wood, Lucas Foglia, Martin Parr and Óscar Fernando Gómez, Clare Strand and David Campany, Mike Mandel and Aaron Schuman, Eric Fischl and E.L. Doctorow.
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Aperture 199
Portfolios and Essays from Josef Koudelka, Mark Alice Durant, Kelly Poe and Susan Morgan, Richard Learoyd and Peggy Roalf, Stephen Dupont, Paul Graham and Aaron Schuman, OpenEnded Group and David Frankel, Diane Arbus and Robert Gober.
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Aperture 198
Portfolios and Essays from Elliott Erwitt, Marc Riboud, Amanda Hopkinson, Zoe Crosher, Michelle Dubois, Jan Tumlir, Anders Petersen, JH Engström, Robert Voit, Mary Panzer, John Gossage, Gerry Badger, Walid Raad, Alan Gilbert, Scott Anderson, and Paolo Pellegrin.
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Aperture 197
Portfolios and Essays from Carrie Mae Weems, Raymond Cauchetier and Richard Brody, Anthony Downey, Andrew Moore, Robert Adams and Joshua Chuang, Maira Kalman and Francine Prose, Nick Knight and Diane Smyth, Nan Goldin and Greil Marcus.
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Aperture 196
Portfolios and Essays from William Klein and Alessandra Mauro, Gerald Slota and Neil LaBute, Mark Alice Durant, Rob Hornstra, Luc Sante, William Eggleston, Sally Gall and Phillip Lopate, Debbie Fleming Caffery and Mary-Charlotte Domandi.
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Aperture 195
Portfolios and Essays from Edward Hopper, Jeffrey Fraenkel, and Robert Adams, Daniel and Geo Fuchs, Chris Boot, Maya Deren and Mark Alice Durant, Jason Evans, Mary Panzer, Suyeon Yun, Don McCullin and Fred Ritchin.
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Aperture 194
Portfolios and Essays from Sally Mann, Jiang Jian, and Vicki Goldberg, Anthony Downey, Jonathan Torgovnik, Pertti Kekarainen, and Lyle Rexer, Dan Eldon, Candy Jernigan, and Jessica Helfand, William van der Weyde, and Michael Lesy, Lise Sarfati and Sandra S. Phillips.
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Aperture 193
Portfolios and Essays from Peter C. Bunnell, Susan Meiselas and John Berger, Erika Wolf, Phillip Toledano, Richard Misrach, Ulrich Baer, Guy Tillim and Joanna Lehan, John Wood and David Levi Strauss, and Michael “Nick” Nichols.
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Aperture 192
Portfolios and Essays from Joseph Koudelka, Jan Tumlir, Fred Ritchin and Michael Schmelling, Robert Hariman, David Campany, Claudia Algelmaier and Brian Dillon, Duane Michals and Robert Kushner, Jason Evans, Joel Sternfeld and Gretel Ehrlich.
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Aperture 191
Portfolios and Essays from Sophie Calle and Giuseppe Merlino, Robert Frank and Luc Sante, Trevor Paglen and Thomas Keenan, Gilles Peress and John Berger, Jane Hammond and Amei Wallach, Vince Aletti, James Bidgood and Phillip Gefter, Susan Derges and Mark Haworth-Booth, Christopher Phillips and Fuku Noriko, and Mary Panzer.
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Aperture 190 (subscriber cover)
Portfolios and Essays from Martin Parr, James Welling and Noam M. Elcott, David Campany, JH Engstrom and Martin Jaeggi, Philip Jones Griffiths and William Messer, Muzi Quawson, Fred Ritchin, and Gregory Crewdson.
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Aperture 190 (newsstand cover)
Portfolios and Essays from Martin Parr, James Welling and Noam M. Elcott, David Campany, JH Engstrom and Martin Jaeggi, Philip Jones Griffiths and William Messer, Muzi Quawson, Fred Ritchin, and Gregory Crewdson.
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Aperture 189 (signed edition)
Inside spread signed by Martin Parr. Portfolios and Essays from Paolo Woods and Serge Michel, Lyle Rexer, Jason Oddy, William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand, Hara Mikiko, Diana Vreeland and Vince Aletti, Dawoud Bey and Arthur C. Danto, Martin Parr and Wayne Koestenbaum.
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Aperture 189
Portfolios and Essays from Paolo Woods and Serge Michel, Lyle Rexer, Jason Oddy, William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand, Hara Mikiko, Diana Vreeland and Vince Aletti, Dawoud Bey and Arthur C. Danto, Martin Parr and Wayne Koestenbaum.
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Aperture 188 (signed edition)
Portfolios and Essays from Richard Avedon, Lee Friedlander, and Jeffrey Fraenkel, Mikhael Subotzky and Michael Godby, David Campany, Jonathan Torgovnik and Jeffrey Goldberg, Martin Parr and Michel Campeau, Jacqueline Hassink and Francine Prose, Lisa Turvey and Shannon Ebner, Yoshiyuki Kohei and Araki Nobuyoshi. Jacqueline Hassink's spread is signed by the artist.
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Aperture 188
Portfolios and Essays from Richard Avedon, Lee Friedlander, and Jeffrey Fraenkel, Mikhael Subotzky and Michael Godby, David Campany, Jonathan Torgovnik and Jeffrey Goldberg, Martin Parr and Michel Campeau, Jacqueline Hassink and Francine Prose, Lisa Turvey and Shannon Ebner, Yoshiyuki Kohei and Araki Nobuyoshi.
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Aperture 187
Portfolios and Essays from Mary Ellen Mark and Francine Prose, Barry Frydlender and Richard B. Woodward, Roberto Huarcaya and Fernando Castro, Florian Maier-Aichen and Jan Tumlir, Vince Aletti, Grete Stern and Lyle Rexer, and Gerry Badger.
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Aperture 186 (signed edition)
Portfolios and Essays from Pieter Hugo and Brownyn Law-Viljoen, Jay DeFeo and Anne Wilkes Tucker, Thomas Holton and Bonnie Yochelson, Clare Richardson, David Spero, and Jason Oddy, Mark Haworth-Booth and Lee Miller, Takashi Yasumura, Jessica Lange and Mary Ellen Mark, Stephen Shore and Luc Sante. Pieter Hugo's spread is signed by the artist.
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Aperture 186
Portfolios and Essays from Pieter Hugo and Brownyn Law-Viljoen, Jay DeFeo and Anne Wilkes Tucker, Thomas Holton and Bonnie Yochelson, Clare Richardson, David Spero, and Jason Oddy, Mark Haworth-Booth and Lee Miller, Takashi Yasumura, Jessica Lange and Mary Ellen Mark, Stephen Shore and Luc Sante.
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Aperture 185
Portfolios and Essays from Patti Smith, Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin, and David Campany, Caroline Mangez and Alexandra Boulat, Philip Gefterck, Gail Albert Halaban and Jori Finkel, Marilyn Bridges and Gail Buckland, Eirik Johnson and Dalia Azim, Joshua Mack and Jessica Dimmo.
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Aperture 184
Portfolios and Essays from Edgar Martins, Rebecca Solnit, Neil Selkirk, Zalmaï, Polixeni Papapetrou, Vince Aletti, Frederick Sommer and David Levi Strauss.
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Aperture 183
Portfolios and Essays from William Christenberry, Jessie Mann and Len Prince, Jessica Helfand, Sze Tsung Leong, Nancy Chappell and Mayu Mohanna, Bruce Conner and Greil Marcus, Harri Kallio and Carlo McCormick.
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Aperture 182
Portfolios and Essays from Deborah Willis, Keith Calhoun, and Chandra McCormick, Aaron Neville, Jen Davis and Rod Slemmons, Wilson A. Bentley and W. M. Hunt, Lynn Davis and Arthur C. Danto, Sol LeWitt, Vince Aletti, Elinor Carucci and Diana C. Stoll, Paolo Pellegrin and Scott Anderson.
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Aperture 181
Portfolios and Essays from Mary Ellen Mark and Martin Bell, Alfredo Jaar and Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Elena Dorfman and Susan Morgan, Esteban Pastorino Diaz and Fernando Castro, Alex Webb, William Eggleston.
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Aperture 180
Portfolios and Essays from Allan Gurganus and Joel Sternfeld, Godfrey Reggio and Carlo McCormick, Paolo Ventura and Francine Prose, Vince Aletti, Lise Sarfati and Charlotte Cotton, and Robert Adams.
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Aperture 179
Portfolios and Essays from Neeta Madahar and Carlo McCormick, Hazel Larsen Archer and David Vaughan, Lyle Rexer and Jason Oddy, Charlotte Cotton and Martina Mullaney, Antonin Kratochvil and Michael Persson, Kerry Skarbakka and Wayne Koestenbaum, Martin Parr and Mark Haworth-Booth.
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Aperture 178
Portfolios and Essays from Lalla Essaydi and Isolde Brielmaier, Geoffrey Batchen and Laura Kurgan, Eugene Richards, Hiroshi Sugimoto and John Yau, Vince Aletti and Philip Gefter, and Gaby Messina.
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Aperture 177
Portfolios and Essays from Jason Florio, David Hilliard and Bill Arning, Robert Doisenau and Carole Naggar, Elisabeth Biondi, Rinko Kawauchi and Charlotte Cotton, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Susan Sontag, John Taylor.
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Aperture 176
Portfolios and Essays from Hellen van Meene and Andrew Hiller, Gary Schneider and Lynne Tillman, Elsa Schiaparelli and Francine Prose, Judy Grayson, Tim Davis, Nan Goldin and Phyllis Thompson Reid.
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Aperture 175
Portfolios and Essays from Serge Enderlin, Serge Michel, and Paolo Woods, Elaine Reichek and David Frankel, Donna Ferrato and Claudia Glenn Dowling, Doug and Mike Starn, Frederick Kaufman, Rosemary Laing and Abigail Solomon-Godeau.
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Aperture 174 (signed edition)
Portfolios and Essays from Richard Misrach, Yassaman Ameri and Minna Proctor, Paul Thorel, Egbert Trogemann, Richard Kalvar, Loretta Lux and Diana C. Stoll. This issue is signed by Richard Misrach.
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Aperture 174
Portfolios and Essays from Richard Misrach, Yassaman Ameri and Minna Proctor, Paul Thorel, Egbert Trogemann, Richard Kalvar, Loretta Lux and Diana C. Stoll.
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Aperture 173
Portfolios and Essays from Carlo McCormick, Walter Martin, and Paloma Munoz, Peter Yenne, Philip Gefter, Roger Ballen and Charles Bowden, John Dugdale, John Kelly, and David Frankel.
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Aperture 172
Portfolios and Essays from Stephen Shore and Peter Schjeldahl, Marco Pesaresi and Federico Fellini, Gerda Taro and Richard Whelan, David Maisel and Diana Gaston, Celia A. Shapiro and Charles Bowden, Simen Johan and Lyle Rexer.
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Aperture 171
Portfolios and Essays from Larry Towell, Vince Aletti and Andrea Modica, Robert Farris Thompson and Adriana Groisman, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Diana C. Stoll, and Fred Ritchin.
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Aperture 170
Portfolios and Essays from John Coffer and Frederick Kaufman, Jonas Bendiksen and Laara Matsen, Art Maples, Don McCullin and Diana C. Stoll, Thomas Kellner, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Anne Wilkes Tucker.
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Aperture 169
Issue 169, Part 2 of our 50th Anniversary series, continues the story of Aperture's evolution from a small quarterly journal to a cultural phenomenon that reaches the largest and most diverse audience for fine photography worldwide.
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Aperture 168
Issue 168, Part 1 of our 50th Anniversary series, tells the story of Aperture's evolution from a small quarterly journal to a cultural phenomenon that reaches the largest and most diverse audience for fine photography worldwide.
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Aperture 167
Portfolios and Essays from Mark Haworth-Booth and R. H. Cravens, Charles Bowden, Flor Garduño, Phyllis Thompson Reid, Michael Nichols, Lucas Samaras and Vince Aletti, and Olga Gourko.
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Aperture 166
Portfolios and Essays from Frederick Kaufman, Eudora Welty, Robert Capa and Richard Whelan, Janet Sternburg, Adrian Piper and Diana C. Stoll, Carole Naggar and Joel-Peter Witkin, and Sylvia Plachy.
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Aperture 165
Portfolios and Essays from William Eggleston and John Howell, Eikoh Hosoe and Carole Naggar, Tony D'Urso and Lyle Rexer, Paolo Pellegrin, Atta Kim, Elaine Ling, Ackroyd and Harvey, and Martin Barnes.
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Aperture 164
Portfolios and Essays from Eliot Porter and Rebecca Solnit, Peter and Barbara Moore, Miguel Rio Branco, Danny Lyon, Donna DeCesare and Peggy Roalf.
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Aperture 163
Portfolios and Essays from Sebastião Salgado, Heinrich Schliemann and D. F. Easton, Giorgia Fiorio and Véronique Vienne, Robert Mapplethorpe and Arthur C. Danto, and David Levi Strauss.
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Aperture 162
Portfolios and Essays from Sally Mann, Véronique Vienne and Philip Gefter, Nick Waplington, Richard Misrach and Jason Berry, Mary Walling Blackburn, David Levi Strauss and Leon Golub
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Aperture 161
Portfolios and Essays on William Henry Fox Talbot by Anthony Burnett-Brown, Russell Roberts, and Mark Haworth-Booth.
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Aperture 160
Portfolios and Essays from Jean-Francois Leroy and Diana C. Stoll, W. Eugene Smith and Michael L. Sand, Barbara Ehrenreich, Michael Tracy and Edward Leffingwell, Bert Teunissen, Chuck Close and Lyle Rexer, and Charles Bowden.
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Aperture 159
Portfolios and Essays from Mark Haworth-Booth, Mimmo Jodice, Edward Weston and Susan Morgan, Charles Bowden, Diana C. Stoll, James A. Fox, Matthieu Ricard, and Marilyn Silverstone, Jeff Bridges and Richard Misrach, and Francine Prose.
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Aperture 158
Portfolios and Essays from Mark Haworth-Booth, Eadweard Muybridge and Philip Prodger, Dr. Howard Eugene Edgerton and Gus Kayafas, Paul Caponigro, and W. Jerome Harrison.
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Aperture 157
"Steps in Space" features early photographs of the sun and moon, as well as NASA images of Mars, and the astonishing images of the generation and decay of stars that the Hubble telescope has provided us in recent years. Against this background, the issue presents interpretive photographs by Kikuji Kawada, Hiro, Sophie Ristelhueber, and others, as well as works by Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eam...
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Aperture 156
Portfolios and Essays from Vince Aletti, Madonna, Wayne Koestenbaum, Michael L. Sand, Jonathan Williams, and Max Kozloff.
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Aperture 154
Aperture's second Explorations issue presents heretofore undiscovered images by photographers whose work is bound to become widely known. They probe the metaphysical through ritual, invoke dark metaphors in circus performance, find religion in nocturnal deserts, and study the ties that bind. The convergence of these uniquely powerful images and the artists' personal stories provokes an examination...
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Aperture 153
Portfolios and Essays from Latin American photography by guest editor Pablo Ortiz Monasterio.
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Aperture 151
Portfolios and Essays on Photographers On Photographers: Eve Arnold and Martine Franck, Richard Avedon and Amy Arbus, Harry Callahan and Emmet Gowin, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Ferdinando Scianna, Eikoh Hosoe and Antonio Turok, Helen Levitt and Bill Arnold. and Inge Morath and Anthony Suau.
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Aperture 150
Essays by Bill McKibben, Mary Oliver, Tony Hiss, Lucy R. Lippard, Charles Bowden, Marcello Mastroianni and Gloria Satta.
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Aperture 149
Portfolios and Essays on Michael Lesy, Lynne Tillman, Peggy Roalf and Clara Smith, E. Annie Proulx, Joel-Peter Witkin, Jean Genet, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Peggy Roalf, and Laura Greenberg.
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Aperture 148
Guest edited by W. M. Hunt, this issue of Aperture features work by photographers and scientists in their efforts to capture delirium on paper. Images ranging from contemporary through nineteenth-century show how delirium, clinical or colloquial, has been documented, analyzed, codified, worked over, and wondered about for the last 150 years, together creating a psychic agitation that can be as dar...
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Aperture 146
Portfolios and Essays on Lynn Davis, Mary Ellen Mark, Duane Michals, Richard Misrach, Raghu Rai, Lise Sarfati, Doug and Mike Starn, William Morris, and William S. Burroughs.
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Aperture 145
Surface and Illusion presents ten portfolios of photographic work by artists we do not necessarily think of as photographers. Drawing primarily on the disciplines of painting, sculpture, and film, this issue seeks to explore the intersection of two-dimensional and three-dimensional representation—the link between the built and the imaged—as well as the ways in which time, memory, and narrative fun...
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Aperture 144
Communalistic living—the concept of living together to foster the common good—claims a long tradition in America and continues to be a vital reality today. "Shared Lives" photographically explores five communities in the U.S. and one in Mexico. Photo essays include Eugene Richards' intimate portrayal of a commune in Oregon and Margaret Morton's chronicle of a village built by tenacious homeless pe...
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Aperture 143
"The Universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats," wrote Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in the preamble to his 1825 Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy. Brillat-Savarin suggested that the forgotten tenth Muse was Gasterea, who presided over all the pleasures of taste. The feast of superb imagery related to both eating and the ...
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Aperture 142
“France: New Visions” presents a selection of images by twenty-one contemporary French photographers—some already known, others who will be new to American eyes.
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Aperture 141
Focusing primarily on the work of “island photographers”— those who continue to work in Cuba—and Cubans living in the United States (many of whom consider themselves Cuban-Americans), this issue of Aperture reflects the creative wellspring that has emerged from Cuban artists of both categories in recent years.
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Aperture 140
Although revered for his vibrant still lifes and haunting California landscapes, Edward Weston spent the major part of his career, from 1917 to 1948, perfecting a standard of photographic portraiture that has rarely been surpassed. This monograph is the first published collection of Weston's finest portraits.
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Aperture 139
For "Strong Hearts," Aperture invited contemporary American Indian photographers throughout the United States and Canada to contribute work, hoping to generate a lively debate on photography’s contribution to perceptions of Native cultures. The scope and diversity of their photographs—from intimate family portraits to expressionistic images of darkly emotional power—present a world apart from what...
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Aperture 138
Aperture's second "On Location" features the work of six disparate artists whose common bond lies in their maverick approach to art. This issue is devoted to the working processes of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Graciela Iturbide, Barbara Kruger, Sally Mann, Andres Serrano, and Clarissa Sligh.
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Aperture 137
“Brush Fires in the Social Landscape” brings us the voice of David Wojnarowicz, speaking to and for a generation wrestling with issues of sexuality, identity, and the fragility of life.
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Aperture 136
The images in “Metamorphoses” arrive midway into photography’s second century, a period that has seen the creation and obsolescence of dozens of photographic devices, and the rise and fall of as many styles and movements. It is an age that has also witnessed the invention of film, television, and—most importantly for the images reproduced in these pages—computers.
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Aperture 135
This issue of Aperture embraces the last twenty-five years of Paul Strand's discoveries—from 1950, when he expatriated to France from the McCarthyism of the United States, until his death in 1976. Geographically, his explorations ranged farther than any he had previously undertaken: Paul and his wife Hazel Kingsbury traveled throughout France and to other places including Italy, Romania, the Hebri...
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Aperture 134
How do you image a culture? How does a culture image itself—especially one as splintered as Ireland's in the time of "the Troubles?" "Ireland: A Troubled Mirror" offers provocative responses to these questions—through photographs made by Irish and non-Irish photographers over the last thirty years. Images capturing the archetypal, mythical, and the everyday Ireland, North and South, are enhanced b...
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Aperture 133
“On Location” focuses on the working processes of seven well-established photographers whose remarkable images we have not previously published in depth. Through a series of lengthy studio visits and often soul-searching conversations, “On Location ” explores the work and ideas of Adam Fuss, Jon Goodman, Annie Leibovitz, Susan Meiselas, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, and Joel-Peter Witkin—from the ...
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Aperture 132
While Italian artists working in other media are touted as visionaries, Italian photography remains virtually unviewed. Yet there are countless compelling and innovative Italian photographers exploring and working in all genres. The revelation of Italian photography, the experience of Italy as seen through the sensibilities of its own photographers, and Aperture’s mission to publish work with whic...
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Aperture 131
In Germany between the two World Wars, a vibrant aesthetic burst forth in the field of design that took the term "modern" to previously unimagined heights. This vision celebrated the forms of technology, from the glass and steel of the Bauhaus to the sleek lines and innovative typography of the new graphic design. In a reaction to the then-fashionable Pictorialist tradition, which sought to render...
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Aperture 130
"Explorations," the first issue of Aperture's fortieth-anniversary year, celebrates tradition by breaking it. In a departure from our usual thematic approach, this issue features ten distinctly individualistic photographic portfolios.
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Aperture 129
Forty years after its origination, Aperture celebrates the founders' affirming spirit. Seventy photographers published in Aperture since 1952 selected three photographs especially for this anniversary issue. One image from each artist was chosen. The photographers also wrote their thoughts on photography in general or, if they preferred, about their work in particular, much as the founders suggest...
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Aperture 128
In the course of a worldly career that took him from his native Hungary to Weimar Germany and finally to ultra-chic New York, Martin Munkacsi applied his acclaimed photojournalistic technique to the world of beauty and style, becoming the predominant fashion photographer of the thirties and forties.
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Aperture 127
Guest edited by David Byrne, "Our Town" considers the idea of community in the United States today. With images by over fifty photographers and a diverse group of personal essays, we journey through a multitude of representations and perspectives: small towns and suburbia, urban communities, home and family, farm communities, community as expressed through shared interests, and the concept of comm...
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Aperture 126
At this pivotal moment in its history, as the consequences of the democratic election that installed Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president—and the military coup that outsted him—are unfolding, world interest is once again turned to this island. Political turmoil and grave social problems are but part of the mosaic.
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Aperture 125
As the central role photography has played in contemporary art and culture is increasingly recognized, it becomes important to examine its links to other visual media. Considering the parallels between this machine-aided medium and drawing, the prototypical art of the hand, may throw light on the nature and uses of both.
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Aperture 124
Featuring interviews with six of the foremost private photography connoisseurs and collectors of our time, attempting to address the questions of why and how someone would go about amassing photographs.
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Aperture 123
Now that the giddy celebrations that marked reunification have ended, Germany finds itself still confronted by unresolved questions of its past and its hopeful but uncertain future. “Between Past and Future: New German Photography” examines the state of Germany today, as well as the tremendously varied photography being produced there.
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Aperture 122
Fashion offers a constantly shifting notion of an “ideal,” but the relationship of fashion photography to art remains unsettled. Through the eyes and words of fashion photographers and writers, this issue recognizes the enduring value of fashion photography by showcasing images from around the world, images of clothing, beauty, style, and still life.
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Aperture 120
Entering the final decade of the millennium, the terror of nuclear war has been joined by a new set of terrors—global warming, acid rain, dead oceans, mutations and cancers caused by radiation and toxic waste. “Beyond Wilderness” attempts to direct public debate away from questions of preserving an artificial wilderness and toward a new and enlightened stewardship of the earth.
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Aperture 119
"Cultures in Transition" focus on the interdependence that has come to characterize relations between cultures—a sense of shared problems and concerns; of multivalent exchanges, whether political, economic, or artistic. How does photography represent people both to others and to themselves? Operating in the space between anthropological and documentary photography, and questioning the assumptions ...
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Aperture 118
“A Deepening Vision,” the second issue of Aperture to be devoted entirely to Sudek and his work, encompasses the later half of his life.
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Aperture 117
“Outward Journey” examines the first half of Josef Sudek’s extraordinary life, and introduces some of the lyrical photographic cycles—including the haunting, majestic studies of St. Vitus Cathedral—that earned him the title, “Poet of Prague.”
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Aperture 116
With the advent of glasnost, the invisible materializes; the forbidden is tasted for the first time. This issue presents a diverse range of recent work by significant Soviet photographers as they attempt to articulate visions appropriate to the radically changed circumstances they, and the Soviet Union, find themselves in.
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Aperture 115
This issue celebrates the richness and diversity of Southern visions, reflecting the richness and diversity of the South itself—a South that is not simply a geographical location but a state of mind, a land in which myths are often more familiar and more powerful than reality.
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Aperture 114
Moving beyond photography’s unrivaled capacity for description, the photographers in “Self and Shadow” create matrices of psychological meaning, mirrors of experience and metaphors for contemplation.
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Aperture 113
The rich fabric of British photography today is woven from a hundred points of view eloquently expressed by photographers young and old, struggling to articulate an image of British life adequate to its variety and energy. Drawing inspiration from the vibrant tradition of photography in postwar Britain, these picturemakers combine a close awareness of the formal heritage of photography with a sens...
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Aperture 112
The inherent fascination of the photograph comes from its duality as truthteller and storyteller. Where truthtelling penetrates and describes reality, storytelling fills the timeless need to create fables. This issue examines the center of this duality where it is most apparent—in the annals of documentary photography as it evolved in America from the 1930s to the 1980s.
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Aperture 110
In this issue, the heroic motif in symbol and allegory is explored in various interpretations, from the memory of American historical myths alluded to in the mysterious tableaux of David Levinthal, to the satiric war totems of Mark Chambers; from the poignant, awkward heroes of World War I, portraits made by Peter Morello outside Westminster Abbey, to the saga of the anti-hero in words and picture...
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Aperture 107
Exploring what the central mystery of the bond between women and across generations might be, "Mothers & Daughters" marks the first photographic delineation of the emotionally laden, socially explicit relationship between mothers and daughters. The images presented here are ample evidence that, as mothers or as daughters, women are not alone: in passion, conflict, confrontation, and reconciliation...
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Aperture 105
Since the nineteenth century India has captivated photographers from the West. It offers imagery of unsurpassed exoticism and splendor. Today that extreme is coupled with imagery of unparalleled social misery. India is a subcontinent of extremes: geographical, climatic, religious, social, and material but with a continuity with the past. Photography provides the evidence of that constancy and a me...
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Aperture 104
Largely remembered as a great innovator, Alvin Langdon Coburn is an enigmatic figure in the history of photography. This issue investigates Coburn’s sources and his personal and artistic explorations. Coburn’s cityscapes, portraits, and Vortographs reflect his unprecedented steps toward the creation of a photography of symbol and abstraction.
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Aperture 103
This issue is constructed from a diversity of fictional sources, out of documents of social and personal extremes, diaries, and home movies. It presents narratives derived from cinema and explores the visual inventions of surrealism.
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Aperture 102
This issue, entitled Black Sun, presents an unprecedented portrait of postwar Japan through the eyes of the nation's most significant photographers. It encompasses and connects ancient Japanese myths, the terror of atomic destruction, and the results of swift and massive westernization.
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Aperture 101
This issue, "The Human Street," is constructed as a sequence, like a stroll, a course through a series of human encounters. Portfolios and essays on Allen Ginsberg, Richard Avedon, Mark Holborn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mike Weaver, Eric Fischl, Eugène Atget, Ron Horning, Robert Walker, William Burroughs, Naomi Rosenblum, H. W. Minns, and Ron Horning.
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Aperture 100
The 100th issue of Aperture provides a sense of the future and measures the changes in the practice and understanding of photography. Portfolios and essays on Richard Prince, David Robbins, Robert Cumming, John Baldessari, Brian de Palma, Joel-Peter Witkin, Fred Ritchin, Fidel Castro, Ray Metzker, Michael Berryhill, Danny Lyon, and Andrew Mossin.
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Aperture 99
Bill Brandt, the master of modern British photography, redefined the possibilities of the medium in a career spanning half a century. This issue of Aperture links the evidence of that quality which he sustained in a moonlit street, the frame of a portrait, or in the mood of a landscape.
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Aperture 97
This issue of Aperture addresses the process of recording conflict. It is not concerned with the photography of war or the struggle of armed combatants. It reflects a historical pattern from the turning point of modern European history in the streets of Prague in 1968 to the continuing American military as well as cultural presence in Japan. Between the forces of invasion and occupation the circle...
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Aperture 96
The recognition and acceptance of color photography grew significantly with the Museum of Modern Art’s 1976 exhibition of work by William Eggleston. The notion that photography was a black-and-white medium was irreversibly challenged by that event. Eggleston’s work created the context for this issue of Aperture, which enabled us to include work of diverse intentions, all of which emphatically stre...
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Aperture 94
Contributors include Larry Clark, Ron Horning, Nicolas Monti, H. H. Bennett, Bill Dane, John Fitzgibbon, David A. Hanson, William Larson, Eleanor Wilner, Max Yavno, Mohamed Choukri, D. H. Lawrence, and more.
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Aperture 93
Aperture sponsored a symposium—Photography: 1982—at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California from November 7 through 12. The purpose of this gathering was to bring together artists, writers, editors, and other members of the creative community whose views and experience would stimulate, renew, and broaden the dialogue within and beyond the photography community. The following presents an edited...
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Aperture 91
For this issue we asked curators, teachers, photographers, and our own contributing editors to recommend the best unknown, unpublished, or unexhibited photographers they knew, hoping to present our readers with a true discovery. Ultimately we reviewed over fifty portfolios to select the seven photographers—Susan Barron, Nancy Hellebrand, John Lueders-Booth, William Maguire, Rhondal McKinney, Steph...
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Aperture 90
Portfolios and Essays from Bill Brandt, Mark Holborn, Mark Haworth-Booth, Sybil Miller, William Bradford, John Dunmore, George Critcherson, Sandra S. Phillips, Felix Beato, Sol Benjamin, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Lauren Shakely, Sebastian Rodriguez, and Fran Antmann.
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Aperture 88
Portfolios and Essays from Eugène Atget, Jed Perl, Louis Faurer, Lisa Liebmann, Judith Mara Gutman, Nina Raginsky, Gilles Peress, Curtis Harnack, Robert Adams, Mario Giacomelli, and Leonardo Sinisgalli.
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Aperture 86
Portfolios and Essays from Jed Perl, Paul Tarsiers, Don McCullin, Mark Holborn, Garry Winogrand, Ben Lifson, Frank Gohlke, Robert Adams, Lisette Model, R. H. Cravens, Tom Zetterstrom, and Peter Steinhart.
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Aperture 82
Portfolios and Essays from Aaron Siskind, Walter Chappell, Alan Garner, Paul Caponigro, Siegfried Halus, William E. Parker, Alen MacWeeney, Valerie Moolman, Laurence Bach, and Don Earnest.
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Aperture 79
Portfolios and Essays from Walter Chappel, Ira Friedlander, Russell Drisch, Henry Peach Robinson, Eikoh Hosoe, Yukio Mishima, Brewster Ghiselin, and Jerome Liebling.
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Aperture 78
Portfolios and Essays from Mike Disfarmer, Julia Scully, Hilla and Bernd Becher, Joel Meyerowitz, Max Kozloff, André and Marie-Thérèse Jammes, Paul Strand, and Catherine Duncan.
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Aperture 16:2
Portfolios and Essays from Nathan Lyons, Aaron Siskind, Emmet Gowin, Frederick Sommer, Gene Thornton, Doris Ulmann, and Dave Heath.
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