Aperture No. 258: Photography & Painting

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Why Does the Italian Polymath Bruno Munari Still Spark Joy?

Jason Fulford speaks about the obsessions he shares with the beloved artist and designer.

Sakir Khader’s Portraits of Palestinian Perseverance

Khader’s photographs of people in conflict zones across the Middle East document violence and grief alongside moments of tenderness and reprieve.

A Photographer’s Scavenged Still Lifes

Leaving leftovers in her backyard, Lia Darjes creates a stage for a series of improvised tableaux.

Vija Celmins Isn’t Interested in Photography

For more than half a century, Celmins has produced absorbing paintings and drawings that are often inspired by—and mistaken for—photographs. Here, she speaks with Richard Learoyd about images, surfaces, and illusion.

Why Are So Many Contemporary Painters Remaking Famous Images?

A profusion of paintings derived from movie stills and online screenshots reveals a shared impulse to understand—and transform—images’ strange power over us.

Kunié Sugiura’s Genre-Blending Vision

Since the late 1960s, Sugiura has defied the expectations of the art world with hybrid, dreamlike forms that test the limits of photographic expression.

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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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