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Alec Soth Guest Edits Aperture’s Summer 2022 Issue

The acclaimed photographer brings together an issue about dreams and chance.

18 Photographers on What It Means to Embrace the Unknown

In the Magnum Square Print Sale in partnership with Aperture, Elliott Erwitt, Nan Goldin, Jamel Shabazz, and more share images that explore the edges of their photographic practice.
Joel Meyerowitz, Roseville Cottages, 1976

A Sweeping Reconsideration of Photography and Land Use in America

In an eloquent new photobook, Sandra S. Phillips looks at the intertwined histories of colonialism and the built environment across the United States.

9 Photographers on Keeping Their Eyes Open to the World around Them

In a new book for young readers, Rinko Kawauchi, Alec Soth, Wendy Red Star, and others speak about how we engage with the world through the camera.

The Photographer’s Playlist

Nan Goldin, Alec Soth, Jamel Shabazz, and others share the music that comforts, inspires, or makes them move.

13 Photographers on Turning Points in Their Work

Elliott Erwitt, Zun Lee, Alec Soth, and more on the turning points in their photographs—from global and national events to the most personal moments.

11 Photographers on How to Finish a Body of Work

When should you bring a photographic project to an end?

12 Photographers on How They Conceptualize Their Work

What comes first–the idea for a project, or the images themselves?

Aperture's Best Photography Features of 2018

From the photographs that inspired Sofia Coppola’s films to Zanele Muholi’s visual activism, here are this year’s highlights in photography and ideas.

13 Photographers on What Freedom Means to Them

Highlights from the Magnum Square Print Sale

Alec Soth Revisits His Legendary First Book

How the American photographer fell in love with photography.

Subversive Novelist Seeks Her Muse in Pictures

In San Francisco, the author of the controversial novel A Little Life stages an exhibition about loneliness and beauty.

The Armory Show: 11 Photography Picks

The Armory Show kicks off this week at Piers 92 and 94 in Manhattan. Here are Aperture’s 11 highlight of standout photography.

When to Hold ’Em and When to Fold ’Em A Conversation with Alec Soth

Lesley A. Martin touches base with Alec Soth for issue 007 of The PhotoBook Review.

Alec Soth: The Current State of the PhotoBook (Video)

Alec Soth speaks on the current state of the photobook at New York Art Book Fair 2013 at MoMA PS1.

Announcing The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Shortlist Selections

The thirty books shortlisted for the 2013 awards were announced Sept. 20 in New York.

PhotoBook Awards 2013 – Closed for Entries

The 2013 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards is now closed for entries.

Five Most Popular Interviews of 2012

A look back at Aperture’s top five of 2012.
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Aperture Releases “Counter Histories,” Produced with Magnum Foundation Spring Issue Presents Photographers Who Uncover Personal and Political Histories (New York—March 6, 2024) What creative possibilities are offered by the gaps, absences, and silences in historical records? This spring, Aperture magazine presents “Counter Histories,” an issue produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation and informed by their…