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Interview with Charlotte Cotton (Video)

Charlotte Cotton discusses the principles that guided her as she guest-edited Issue 004 of The PhotoBook Review.

Photo.edu: Toward a New Curriculum by Arthur Ou

What is photographic education today? The question elicits a wave of differing, often contesting answers.

The Image World Is Flat: Penelope Umbrico in conversation with Virginia Rutledge

Penelope Umbrico speaks with art historian and intellectual-property lawyer Virginia Rutledge about the use of reproductions in our increasingly flattened image world.

Rinko Kawauchi: My Favorite Color Is Blue (Video)

Revisiting Rinko Kawauchi in conversation with Magnum photojournalist Martin Parr.

Swiping at Pictures

Curator Christopher Y. Lew discusses our changing relationship to technology and to the Internet.

Lingua Photographica

Brooklyn-based writer and curator Gene McHugh dissects photography’s role within the real world and the virtual world.

Aperture Magazine at Sundance Film Festival

Celebrities assembled in Park City, Utah, were photographed by Henny Garfunkel with the freshly relaunched Aperture magazine.

Aperture Magazine Relaunch Party

Over 300 guests in photography, art, fashion, media, and music gathered to celebrate the relaunch of Aperture magazine.

Jeff Wall and Lucas Blalock: A Conversation on Pictures

Jeff Wall speaks with Lucas Blalock about the current state of the medium, his recent work, and the freedom of the artist.

Dispatches: Jason Fulford on San Francisco

It’s been a year now since I drove from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to San Francisco and let the…

Andrew Norman Wilson with Laurel Ptak: ScanOps

Andrew Norman Wilson speaks with curator Laurel Ptak about the ScanOps project.

Nine Years, A Million Conceptual Miles – By Charlotte Cotton

Charlotte Cotton discusses a wave of photographic innovation.

Editors’ Note from Spring 2013 Issue

What should a photography magazine be? This question propelled a long conversation at Aperture Foundation about how we can navigate the next chapter of photography’s evolution and make a vital contribution as a print publication.

Aperture at New York Fashion Week

Aperture magazine visited the tents at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week for last Saturday’s presentation of the Rafael Cennamo Fall 2013 collection.

A2/SW/HK: On Press

Scott Williams and Henrik Kubel document their time on press in Germany with Aperture magazine’s Spring 2013 issue.

INTERVIEW: Scott Williams of A2/SW/HK

Interview with a founder of the London-based graphic design studio responsible for Aperture magazine’s dramatic redesign.

Philip Gourevitch: Varieties of the Apocalypse

For What Matters Now, a regular column in the new Aperture, our editors ask leading thinkers, scholars, and artists to explain new developments and examine pressing matters in photography. This is journalist Philip Gourevitch’s contribution to the Spring issue.

Aperture Magazine's 2013 Relaunch

The cover of Aperture’s Spring 2013 issue is a detail from a photograph by artist Christopher Williams.
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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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