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Aperture No. 256: “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra”

Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.

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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.
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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 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.
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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.
$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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