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Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Delpire, 1960

Remembering Robert Delpire, Publisher of the Greats

Aperture commemorates the life of Robert Delpire (1926–2017).
Akinbode Akinbiyi, Victoria Island, Lagos, 2006

At Documenta, Blurred Lines Between Art and Politics

An ambitious exhibition grapples with the conditions of our time — but can images provoke social change?

Frédérique Destribats on Children’s PhotoBooks

  As photography developed in the wake of its invention in 1839, constant improvement in processing and…

Photography is Miraculous

Kaja Silverman revises the history of a deceptive medium.

The Getty Sheds New Light on the Early History of Photography

Karen Hellman, curator of the new exhibition Real/Ideal, speaks about the French photographers who pioneered realism.

Light Writing in the Tropics: The Story of Hercule Florence

The story of Hercule Florence, who invented an early form of photography in Brazil while studying the Amazon’s birdsong.

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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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