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8 Summer Reads from Aperture’s Editors

From a new volume on Dayanita Singh’s expansive practice to Trent Parke’s journey across north Indian countryside—we asked our editors what photobooks they’re diving into this summer.

A Photographer’s Unflinching Portrait of America in Crisis

Philip Montgomery shares the stories behind nine images in his new photobook “American Mirror.”
Philip Montgomery, The Rainbow Room, 2020

How One Photographer Covered the Unfolding of the Pandemic

Last spring, as New York became the global epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis, Philip Montgomery made an indelible record of a transformed city.

What Is Street Photography without Street Life?

In the age of pandemic, the romance of the empty street becomes the terror of absence.

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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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