A new book of essays by a crucial figure of Japan’s Provoke movement shows how Nakahira relentlessly interrogated photography’s relationship to power.
Inspired by jazz, improvisation, and conceptualism, the ikebana artist has created playful works that merge disciplines.
At home in Japan, Motoyuki Daifu captures his family with gleeful candor.
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.