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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 164
Portfolios and Essays from Eliot Porter and Rebecca Solnit, Peter and Barbara Moore, Miguel Rio Branco, Danny Lyon, Donna DeCesare and Peggy Roalf.
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Aperture 163
Portfolios and Essays from Sebastião Salgado, Heinrich Schliemann and D. F. Easton, Giorgia Fiorio and Véronique Vienne, Robert Mapplethorpe and Arthur C. Danto, and David Levi Strauss.
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Aperture 162
Portfolios and Essays from Sally Mann, Véronique Vienne and Philip Gefter, Nick Waplington, Richard Misrach and Jason Berry, Mary Walling Blackburn, David Levi Strauss and Leon Golub
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Aperture 161
Portfolios and Essays on William Henry Fox Talbot by Anthony Burnett-Brown, Russell Roberts, and Mark Haworth-Booth.
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Aperture 160
Portfolios and Essays from Jean-Francois Leroy and Diana C. Stoll, W. Eugene Smith and Michael L. Sand, Barbara Ehrenreich, Michael Tracy and Edward Leffingwell, Bert Teunissen, Chuck Close and Lyle Rexer, and Charles Bowden.
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Aperture 159
Portfolios and Essays from Mark Haworth-Booth, Mimmo Jodice, Edward Weston and Susan Morgan, Charles Bowden, Diana C. Stoll, James A. Fox, Matthieu Ricard, and Marilyn Silverstone, Jeff Bridges and Richard Misrach, and Francine Prose.
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Aperture 158
Portfolios and Essays from Mark Haworth-Booth, Eadweard Muybridge and Philip Prodger, Dr. Howard Eugene Edgerton and Gus Kayafas, Paul Caponigro, and W. Jerome Harrison.
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Aperture 157
"Steps in Space" features early photographs of the sun and moon, as well as NASA images of Mars, and the astonishing images of the generation and decay of stars that the Hubble telescope has provided us in recent years. Against this background, the issue presents interpretive photographs by Kikuji Kawada, Hiro, Sophie Ristelhueber, and others, as well as works by Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eam...
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Aperture 156
Portfolios and Essays from Vince Aletti, Madonna, Wayne Koestenbaum, Michael L. Sand, Jonathan Williams, and Max Kozloff.
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Aperture 154
Aperture's second Explorations issue presents heretofore undiscovered images by photographers whose work is bound to become widely known. They probe the metaphysical through ritual, invoke dark metaphors in circus performance, find religion in nocturnal deserts, and study the ties that bind. The convergence of these uniquely powerful images and the artists' personal stories provokes an examination...
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Aperture 153
Portfolios and Essays from Latin American photography by guest editor Pablo Ortiz Monasterio.
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Aperture 151
Portfolios and Essays on Photographers On Photographers: Eve Arnold and Martine Franck, Richard Avedon and Amy Arbus, Harry Callahan and Emmet Gowin, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Ferdinando Scianna, Eikoh Hosoe and Antonio Turok, Helen Levitt and Bill Arnold. and Inge Morath and Anthony Suau.
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Aperture 150
Essays by Bill McKibben, Mary Oliver, Tony Hiss, Lucy R. Lippard, Charles Bowden, Marcello Mastroianni and Gloria Satta.
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Aperture 149
Portfolios and Essays on Michael Lesy, Lynne Tillman, Peggy Roalf and Clara Smith, E. Annie Proulx, Joel-Peter Witkin, Jean Genet, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Peggy Roalf, and Laura Greenberg.
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Aperture 148
Guest edited by W. M. Hunt, this issue of Aperture features work by photographers and scientists in their efforts to capture delirium on paper. Images ranging from contemporary through nineteenth-century show how delirium, clinical or colloquial, has been documented, analyzed, codified, worked over, and wondered about for the last 150 years, together creating a psychic agitation that can be as dar...
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Aperture 146
Portfolios and Essays on Lynn Davis, Mary Ellen Mark, Duane Michals, Richard Misrach, Raghu Rai, Lise Sarfati, Doug and Mike Starn, William Morris, and William S. Burroughs.
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Aperture 145
Surface and Illusion presents ten portfolios of photographic work by artists we do not necessarily think of as photographers. Drawing primarily on the disciplines of painting, sculpture, and film, this issue seeks to explore the intersection of two-dimensional and three-dimensional representation—the link between the built and the imaged—as well as the ways in which time, memory, and narrative fun...
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Aperture 144
Communalistic living—the concept of living together to foster the common good—claims a long tradition in America and continues to be a vital reality today. "Shared Lives" photographically explores five communities in the U.S. and one in Mexico. Photo essays include Eugene Richards' intimate portrayal of a commune in Oregon and Margaret Morton's chronicle of a village built by tenacious homeless pe...
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Aperture 143
"The Universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats," wrote Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in the preamble to his 1825 Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy. Brillat-Savarin suggested that the forgotten tenth Muse was Gasterea, who presided over all the pleasures of taste. The feast of superb imagery related to both eating and the ...
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Aperture 142
“France: New Visions” presents a selection of images by twenty-one contemporary French photographers—some already known, others who will be new to American eyes.
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Aperture 141
Focusing primarily on the work of “island photographers”— those who continue to work in Cuba—and Cubans living in the United States (many of whom consider themselves Cuban-Americans), this issue of Aperture reflects the creative wellspring that has emerged from Cuban artists of both categories in recent years.
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Aperture 140
Although revered for his vibrant still lifes and haunting California landscapes, Edward Weston spent the major part of his career, from 1917 to 1948, perfecting a standard of photographic portraiture that has rarely been surpassed. This monograph is the first published collection of Weston's finest portraits.
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Aperture 139
For "Strong Hearts," Aperture invited contemporary American Indian photographers throughout the United States and Canada to contribute work, hoping to generate a lively debate on photography’s contribution to perceptions of Native cultures. The scope and diversity of their photographs—from intimate family portraits to expressionistic images of darkly emotional power—present a world apart from what...
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Aperture 138
Aperture's second "On Location" features the work of six disparate artists whose common bond lies in their maverick approach to art. This issue is devoted to the working processes of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Graciela Iturbide, Barbara Kruger, Sally Mann, Andres Serrano, and Clarissa Sligh.
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Aperture 137
“Brush Fires in the Social Landscape” brings us the voice of David Wojnarowicz, speaking to and for a generation wrestling with issues of sexuality, identity, and the fragility of life.
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Aperture 136
The images in “Metamorphoses” arrive midway into photography’s second century, a period that has seen the creation and obsolescence of dozens of photographic devices, and the rise and fall of as many styles and movements. It is an age that has also witnessed the invention of film, television, and—most importantly for the images reproduced in these pages—computers.
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Aperture 135
This issue of Aperture embraces the last twenty-five years of Paul Strand's discoveries—from 1950, when he expatriated to France from the McCarthyism of the United States, until his death in 1976. Geographically, his explorations ranged farther than any he had previously undertaken: Paul and his wife Hazel Kingsbury traveled throughout France and to other places including Italy, Romania, the Hebri...
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Aperture 134
How do you image a culture? How does a culture image itself—especially one as splintered as Ireland's in the time of "the Troubles?" "Ireland: A Troubled Mirror" offers provocative responses to these questions—through photographs made by Irish and non-Irish photographers over the last thirty years. Images capturing the archetypal, mythical, and the everyday Ireland, North and South, are enhanced b...
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Aperture 133
“On Location” focuses on the working processes of seven well-established photographers whose remarkable images we have not previously published in depth. Through a series of lengthy studio visits and often soul-searching conversations, “On Location ” explores the work and ideas of Adam Fuss, Jon Goodman, Annie Leibovitz, Susan Meiselas, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, and Joel-Peter Witkin—from the ...
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Aperture 132
While Italian artists working in other media are touted as visionaries, Italian photography remains virtually unviewed. Yet there are countless compelling and innovative Italian photographers exploring and working in all genres. The revelation of Italian photography, the experience of Italy as seen through the sensibilities of its own photographers, and Aperture’s mission to publish work with whic...
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Aperture 131
In Germany between the two World Wars, a vibrant aesthetic burst forth in the field of design that took the term "modern" to previously unimagined heights. This vision celebrated the forms of technology, from the glass and steel of the Bauhaus to the sleek lines and innovative typography of the new graphic design. In a reaction to the then-fashionable Pictorialist tradition, which sought to render...
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Aperture 130
"Explorations," the first issue of Aperture's fortieth-anniversary year, celebrates tradition by breaking it. In a departure from our usual thematic approach, this issue features ten distinctly individualistic photographic portfolios.
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Aperture 129
Forty years after its origination, Aperture celebrates the founders' affirming spirit. Seventy photographers published in Aperture since 1952 selected three photographs especially for this anniversary issue. One image from each artist was chosen. The photographers also wrote their thoughts on photography in general or, if they preferred, about their work in particular, much as the founders suggest...
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Aperture 128
In the course of a worldly career that took him from his native Hungary to Weimar Germany and finally to ultra-chic New York, Martin Munkacsi applied his acclaimed photojournalistic technique to the world of beauty and style, becoming the predominant fashion photographer of the thirties and forties.
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Aperture 127
Guest edited by David Byrne, "Our Town" considers the idea of community in the United States today. With images by over fifty photographers and a diverse group of personal essays, we journey through a multitude of representations and perspectives: small towns and suburbia, urban communities, home and family, farm communities, community as expressed through shared interests, and the concept of comm...
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Aperture 126
At this pivotal moment in its history, as the consequences of the democratic election that installed Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president—and the military coup that outsted him—are unfolding, world interest is once again turned to this island. Political turmoil and grave social problems are but part of the mosaic.
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Aperture 125
As the central role photography has played in contemporary art and culture is increasingly recognized, it becomes important to examine its links to other visual media. Considering the parallels between this machine-aided medium and drawing, the prototypical art of the hand, may throw light on the nature and uses of both.
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Aperture 124
Featuring interviews with six of the foremost private photography connoisseurs and collectors of our time, attempting to address the questions of why and how someone would go about amassing photographs.
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Aperture 123
Now that the giddy celebrations that marked reunification have ended, Germany finds itself still confronted by unresolved questions of its past and its hopeful but uncertain future. “Between Past and Future: New German Photography” examines the state of Germany today, as well as the tremendously varied photography being produced there.
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Aperture 122
Fashion offers a constantly shifting notion of an “ideal,” but the relationship of fashion photography to art remains unsettled. Through the eyes and words of fashion photographers and writers, this issue recognizes the enduring value of fashion photography by showcasing images from around the world, images of clothing, beauty, style, and still life.
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Aperture 120
Entering the final decade of the millennium, the terror of nuclear war has been joined by a new set of terrors—global warming, acid rain, dead oceans, mutations and cancers caused by radiation and toxic waste. “Beyond Wilderness” attempts to direct public debate away from questions of preserving an artificial wilderness and toward a new and enlightened stewardship of the earth.
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Aperture 119
"Cultures in Transition" focus on the interdependence that has come to characterize relations between cultures—a sense of shared problems and concerns; of multivalent exchanges, whether political, economic, or artistic. How does photography represent people both to others and to themselves? Operating in the space between anthropological and documentary photography, and questioning the assumptions ...
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Aperture 118
“A Deepening Vision,” the second issue of Aperture to be devoted entirely to Sudek and his work, encompasses the later half of his life.
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Aperture 117
“Outward Journey” examines the first half of Josef Sudek’s extraordinary life, and introduces some of the lyrical photographic cycles—including the haunting, majestic studies of St. Vitus Cathedral—that earned him the title, “Poet of Prague.”
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Aperture 116
With the advent of glasnost, the invisible materializes; the forbidden is tasted for the first time. This issue presents a diverse range of recent work by significant Soviet photographers as they attempt to articulate visions appropriate to the radically changed circumstances they, and the Soviet Union, find themselves in.
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Aperture 115
This issue celebrates the richness and diversity of Southern visions, reflecting the richness and diversity of the South itself—a South that is not simply a geographical location but a state of mind, a land in which myths are often more familiar and more powerful than reality.
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Aperture 114
Moving beyond photography’s unrivaled capacity for description, the photographers in “Self and Shadow” create matrices of psychological meaning, mirrors of experience and metaphors for contemplation.
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Aperture 113
The rich fabric of British photography today is woven from a hundred points of view eloquently expressed by photographers young and old, struggling to articulate an image of British life adequate to its variety and energy. Drawing inspiration from the vibrant tradition of photography in postwar Britain, these picturemakers combine a close awareness of the formal heritage of photography with a sens...
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Aperture 112
The inherent fascination of the photograph comes from its duality as truthteller and storyteller. Where truthtelling penetrates and describes reality, storytelling fills the timeless need to create fables. This issue examines the center of this duality where it is most apparent—in the annals of documentary photography as it evolved in America from the 1930s to the 1980s.
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Aperture 110
In this issue, the heroic motif in symbol and allegory is explored in various interpretations, from the memory of American historical myths alluded to in the mysterious tableaux of David Levinthal, to the satiric war totems of Mark Chambers; from the poignant, awkward heroes of World War I, portraits made by Peter Morello outside Westminster Abbey, to the saga of the anti-hero in words and picture...
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Aperture 107
Exploring what the central mystery of the bond between women and across generations might be, "Mothers & Daughters" marks the first photographic delineation of the emotionally laden, socially explicit relationship between mothers and daughters. The images presented here are ample evidence that, as mothers or as daughters, women are not alone: in passion, conflict, confrontation, and reconciliation...
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Aperture 105
Since the nineteenth century India has captivated photographers from the West. It offers imagery of unsurpassed exoticism and splendor. Today that extreme is coupled with imagery of unparalleled social misery. India is a subcontinent of extremes: geographical, climatic, religious, social, and material but with a continuity with the past. Photography provides the evidence of that constancy and a me...
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Aperture 104
Largely remembered as a great innovator, Alvin Langdon Coburn is an enigmatic figure in the history of photography. This issue investigates Coburn’s sources and his personal and artistic explorations. Coburn’s cityscapes, portraits, and Vortographs reflect his unprecedented steps toward the creation of a photography of symbol and abstraction.
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Aperture 103
This issue is constructed from a diversity of fictional sources, out of documents of social and personal extremes, diaries, and home movies. It presents narratives derived from cinema and explores the visual inventions of surrealism.
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Aperture 102
This issue, entitled Black Sun, presents an unprecedented portrait of postwar Japan through the eyes of the nation's most significant photographers. It encompasses and connects ancient Japanese myths, the terror of atomic destruction, and the results of swift and massive westernization.
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Aperture 101
This issue, "The Human Street," is constructed as a sequence, like a stroll, a course through a series of human encounters. Portfolios and essays on Allen Ginsberg, Richard Avedon, Mark Holborn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mike Weaver, Eric Fischl, Eugène Atget, Ron Horning, Robert Walker, William Burroughs, Naomi Rosenblum, H. W. Minns, and Ron Horning.
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Aperture 100
The 100th issue of Aperture provides a sense of the future and measures the changes in the practice and understanding of photography. Portfolios and essays on Richard Prince, David Robbins, Robert Cumming, John Baldessari, Brian de Palma, Joel-Peter Witkin, Fred Ritchin, Fidel Castro, Ray Metzker, Michael Berryhill, Danny Lyon, and Andrew Mossin.
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Aperture 99
Bill Brandt, the master of modern British photography, redefined the possibilities of the medium in a career spanning half a century. This issue of Aperture links the evidence of that quality which he sustained in a moonlit street, the frame of a portrait, or in the mood of a landscape.
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Aperture 97
This issue of Aperture addresses the process of recording conflict. It is not concerned with the photography of war or the struggle of armed combatants. It reflects a historical pattern from the turning point of modern European history in the streets of Prague in 1968 to the continuing American military as well as cultural presence in Japan. Between the forces of invasion and occupation the circle...
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Aperture 96
The recognition and acceptance of color photography grew significantly with the Museum of Modern Art’s 1976 exhibition of work by William Eggleston. The notion that photography was a black-and-white medium was irreversibly challenged by that event. Eggleston’s work created the context for this issue of Aperture, which enabled us to include work of diverse intentions, all of which emphatically stre...
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Aperture 94
Contributors include Larry Clark, Ron Horning, Nicolas Monti, H. H. Bennett, Bill Dane, John Fitzgibbon, David A. Hanson, William Larson, Eleanor Wilner, Max Yavno, Mohamed Choukri, D. H. Lawrence, and more.
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Aperture 93
Aperture sponsored a symposium—Photography: 1982—at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California from November 7 through 12. The purpose of this gathering was to bring together artists, writers, editors, and other members of the creative community whose views and experience would stimulate, renew, and broaden the dialogue within and beyond the photography community. The following presents an edited...
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Aperture 91
For this issue we asked curators, teachers, photographers, and our own contributing editors to recommend the best unknown, unpublished, or unexhibited photographers they knew, hoping to present our readers with a true discovery. Ultimately we reviewed over fifty portfolios to select the seven photographers—Susan Barron, Nancy Hellebrand, John Lueders-Booth, William Maguire, Rhondal McKinney, Steph...
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Aperture 90
Portfolios and Essays from Bill Brandt, Mark Holborn, Mark Haworth-Booth, Sybil Miller, William Bradford, John Dunmore, George Critcherson, Sandra S. Phillips, Felix Beato, Sol Benjamin, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Lauren Shakely, Sebastian Rodriguez, and Fran Antmann.
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Aperture 88
Portfolios and Essays from Eugène Atget, Jed Perl, Louis Faurer, Lisa Liebmann, Judith Mara Gutman, Nina Raginsky, Gilles Peress, Curtis Harnack, Robert Adams, Mario Giacomelli, and Leonardo Sinisgalli.
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Aperture 86
Portfolios and Essays from Jed Perl, Paul Tarsiers, Don McCullin, Mark Holborn, Garry Winogrand, Ben Lifson, Frank Gohlke, Robert Adams, Lisette Model, R. H. Cravens, Tom Zetterstrom, and Peter Steinhart.
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Aperture 82
Portfolios and Essays from Aaron Siskind, Walter Chappell, Alan Garner, Paul Caponigro, Siegfried Halus, William E. Parker, Alen MacWeeney, Valerie Moolman, Laurence Bach, and Don Earnest.
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Aperture 79
Portfolios and Essays from Walter Chappel, Ira Friedlander, Russell Drisch, Henry Peach Robinson, Eikoh Hosoe, Yukio Mishima, Brewster Ghiselin, and Jerome Liebling.
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Aperture 78
Portfolios and Essays from Mike Disfarmer, Julia Scully, Hilla and Bernd Becher, Joel Meyerowitz, Max Kozloff, André and Marie-Thérèse Jammes, Paul Strand, and Catherine Duncan.
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Aperture 16:2
Portfolios and Essays from Nathan Lyons, Aaron Siskind, Emmet Gowin, Frederick Sommer, Gene Thornton, Doris Ulmann, and Dave Heath.
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