Mark Steinmetz and Irina Rozovsky discuss the mysteries of the darkroom and the gifts of close looking.
The “70th Anniversary” issue explores the magazine’s past while charting its future—and features original commissions by leading artists and photographers.
Mark Steinmetz’s project on the Atlanta Airport portrays the American South in all its complexity and contradiction.
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.