From the daguerreotype to the iPhone, “Mining Photography” explores how the exploitation of labor and the environment has always shadowed the medium’s history.
Louisiana-based artist Dawn DeDeaux’s images of astronauts appear as harbingers of a new frontier.
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.