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For the Camera

A new exhibition at Tate Modern explores how performance artists use photography – and how photography is a performance itself.

Chris Killip’s Photographs Are Hard Evidence of the Human Soul

Portraying the working class, Killip imbues his subjects and scenes with a sense of urgency, mystery, and radiance.

Magazine: Helena Almeida

The octogenarian Portuguese artist Helena Almeida was intent on blurring lines: her playful images might be considered paintings, actions, and performative photographs.

Lecture as Performance

Several Lebanese artists, including Walid Raad, have embraced the artist’s talk to unpack history and the limitations of the photograph.

On Record: RoseLee Goldberg and Roxana Marcoci in Conversation

Performances are ephemeral; photographs are permanent. When is an image more than a mere document? How do images bring us closer to an event we never witnessed?

A Look Back at Aperture Magazine’s Fortieth Anniversary

On the occasion of the launch of the Aperture Digital Archive appears this excerpt an interview with Michael E. Hoffmann from Aperture Issue 129.

A Look Inside the Aperture Digital Archive

The Aperture Digital Archive includes every issue of Aperture magazine since 1952, including rare, early editions.

The Interview Issue Aperture #220 – Editors' Note

Aperture magazine’s editors on our Fall 2015 issue and its nine in-depth interviews.

Letters from Sally Mann On Process

Letters from Sally Mann to Melissa Harris, editor-in-chief of Aperture Foundation, about her portraits and her process, originally published as an interview in Aperture #138.

Nobuyoshi Araki's Polaroids

Nobuyoshi Araki’s Polaroid collages of nudes juxtaposed with flora is one of the Tokyo-based photographer’s latest projects, which appeared in Aperture magazine #219.

Tokyo's Spaces

Journalist Kenji Takazawa provides an essential guide for your next photographic tour of Japan’s capital.

Takashi Homma's Tokyo Obscura

An excerpt from a portfolio in Aperture magazine #219, Summer 2015, “Tokyo.”

Magazine Work

In the new issue of Aperture magazine, Tokyo-based curator Ivan Vartanian offers a look through the pages of the popular magazines of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s.

Tokyo Aperture #219 – Editors' Note

Aperture magazine’s editors on our Summer 2015 issue and the vast photography landscape in Tokyo.

Zanele Muholi's Faces & Phases

A conversation with the Johannesburg-based photographer about photography and activism, her latest series, Black Beauties, and her influences.

Tokyo Diary

Aperture magazine’s editors spent three weeks in Tokyo researching and assembling our Summer issue of the magazine, dedicated to photography from Japan.

On Aperture Magazine Collector's Subscription Series

Aperture magazine launches an exclusive opportunity for photography collectors to own work published in the pages of the magazine.

On Physique Magazine Photography

Alongside Aperture magazine #218, “Queer,” we look at this overlooked, often purposefully obscured, area of photographic history.

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Aperture Magazine No. 261, “The Craft Issue” Cover
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Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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