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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 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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