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New Directions covers from the mid-twentieth century are easy to spot but difficult to describe, often using pictures to describe words rather than the other way around.
Wildly prolific, the late French writer was driven, compulsive, and rarely satisfied—and his own little-known photographs remain as elusive as ever.
Moyra Davey speaks about her practice of interlacing photography with literature.
Two critics speak about how good writing on images begins with an urge to “keep looking.”
Aperture magazine hosted a night of photography and literature at the National Arts Club.
David Campany on the writers that informed the work of Walker Evans.
Contemporary fiction writers speak on the role of photography and the image in their writing process.
Editors’ Note from the Winter 2014 issue of Aperture magazine, #217, “Lit.”
Aperture presents “Image Worlds to Come: Photography & AI,” a timely and urgent issue that explores how artificial intelligence is quickly transforming the field of photography and our broader culture of images.
