Aperture No. 261: The Craft Issue

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A Witness to South Africa’s Postapartheid Landscape

From her suburban Cape Town studio, Jo Ractliffe reflects on a career spent documenting the aftermath of violence.

Mimi Plumb’s Prophetic Images of America on the Edge

Since the mid-1970s, Plumb has documented life in the US in a way that anticipates today’s social strife and environmental emergency.

John Chiara Illuminates the World’s Simple Mysteries

Building large-scale camera obscuras, Chiara makes wistful photographs that recall the medium’s origins—and our own.

The Woman Who Immortalized the Bauhaus

Lucia Moholy’s photographs helped define the visual identity of the Bauhaus. Why was she left out of its history?

The Photographer Who Sees with Her Fingertips

Aspen Mays makes photographs without a camera and in total darkness, conjuring images both intimate and otherworldly.

Zen and the Art of Photography

Mark Steinmetz and Irina Rozovsky discuss the mysteries of the darkroom and the gifts of close looking.

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Aperture Magazine

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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