Aperture No. 262: The End of Nature?

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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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