The influential French writer’s book “Suzanne and Louise” is an intricate choreography of privacy, revelation, and performance, keenly testing the possibilities of its hybrid medium.
Wildly prolific, the late French writer was driven, compulsive, and rarely satisfied—and his own little-known photographs remain as elusive as ever.
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.