Ian James has spent nearly a decade documenting the pyramids of North America, exploring how the once-sacred architecture has transformed into a late-capitalist virtue.
The director, who recently announced a break from filmmaking, discusses his fledgling career as a maker of dreamy, category-defying photobooks.
Photography was not a hobby for the New Hollywood star, but an important facet of her restlessly curious and creative life.
German artists have often used typologies to help us understand the world. But an exhibition in Milan parades photography’s failures: to document, to mourn, to bend experience into arcs of narrative.
By photographing one scene from different perspectives simultaneously, Probst has devised a singular practice that pushes against the medium’s myths.
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.