The classic volume began its life in 1958 as a monographic issue of Aperture magazine in celebration of Weston’s life.
Editors’ Note from the Winter 2014 issue of Aperture magazine, #217, “Lit.”
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.