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Interview with Sara VanDerBeek

“I wanted to discover, through the use of images and objects, a way to translate my original experience of these European sites.”

Coming Soon: The Paris Photo—Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2013

The second annual awards will be launch in May 2013. Stay tuned!

Isabel Stevens – Review of Light from the Middle East at the V&A

Tampering with photographs is common practice for artists today; this exhibition demonstrated that the strategy is even more relevant for Middle Eastern photographers.

Interview with Greg Allen

These Cold War objects exerted major influence on the culture of their day. It’s not just coincidence that they happen to look like art.

Thomas Ruff: Photograms for the New Age

You may have to develop your own technology for your images. I’m not much interested in “straight” photography anymore.

Interview with Owen Kydd

The moment when still cameras began to include decent video options not only democratized filmmaking, but also marks the history of still images.

The Edge of Vision Interview Series: Bill Armstrong

Bill Armstrong discusses his work Mandala #450 within the context his Infinity series of abstract, blurred images.

Joel Meyerowitz Reads from "The Gravity of Time" (Video)

Joel Meyerowitz reads from “The Gravity of Time,” a personal essay from Paul Strand: The Garden at Orgeval, published by Aperture.

Video: Thinking in Color – A Conversation with Bill Armstrong and W.M. Hunt

Excerpt from an event held at Aperture Gallery on March 18, 2013.

Hank Willis Thomas Artist Talk (Video)

Hank Willis Thomas discusses his series Branded (2011) and Unbranded (2008).

Willie Doherty – Without Trace – Zurich

Willie Doherty’s latest body of work focuses on the sense of alienation to be found in Zurich’s peripheral spaces. Martin Jaeggi assesses the photographs and video.

Coming Soon: PhotoBook Review Issue 004

The next issue, guest edited by Charlotte Cotton, will be launched this spring in Los Angeles, New York, and Milan.

Luigi Ghirri: Kodachrome

Luigi Ghirri’s short written exposé on his sources for inspiration. This essay was included in Aperture’s 2008 volume It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It.

Chirodeep Chaudhuri – A Village in Bengal

Prajna Desai reviews A Village in Bengal, an exhibition of Chirodeep Chaudhuri’s photographs at Project 88, Mumbai.

Interview with Bill Armstrong

Photographer Bill Armstrong speaks with Aperture about his Infinity series, and his latest exhibition in New York.

ECM—A Cultural Anthology

Designer Rob Giampietro assesses the legacy of ECM Records, which was recently surveyed in an exhibition at the Haus der Kunst, Munich, and its related catalog.

Swiping at Pictures

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

Photography at Novartis AG

Melissa Harris spoke with Daniel Vasella, then of Novartis AG, to understand both his passion and his criteria for commissioning photography.
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Aperture 254

This spring, Aperture presents “Counter Histories,” an issue produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation and informed by their ongoing Counter Histories grant initiative, featuring artists from around the world who tell new stories about how the past informs the present.