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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 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.
$20.97

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