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Aperture at Sixty – Classic Covers

A collection of classic Aperture magazine covers, looking at the magazine’s conception and evolution as a forum for photography.

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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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