Where do artists go for inspiration? For some, it’s a museum, for others, it’s the stacks.
Libraries multiply the audience for a book—almost without limit.
Teju Cole’s first photobook unfolds the possibilities of text and image.
In the 1960s, East German border troops photographed the entire length of the Berlin Wall. Fifty years later, a new book brings a secret archive to light.
In what ways is the photobook a useful framing device for archival projects?
Sama Alshaibi talks about her newest photobook, “Sand Rushes In” where she explores the landscape of conflict in North Africa and West Asia.
A look at the 2014 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Short List exhibitions, from New York to Tokyo.
Erwin Olaf gives a virtual tour of his most recent photobook, Erwin Olaf: Volume II.
Aperture visits photographer Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao in his Queens, NY studio to discuss his recent monograph.
A discussion between LaToya Ruby Frazier and Dawoud Bey on The Notion of Family.
Aperture Foundation hosts launch party for photographer Mitch Dobrowner’s latest photobook, Storms.
Highlighting a selection of the latest arrivals in the First PhotoBook category.
Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi discusses the details of her latest photo book, Ametsuchi.
Penelope Umbrico speaks with art historian and intellectual-property lawyer Virginia Rutledge about the use of reproductions in our increasingly flattened image world.
Images from the production of Ametsuchi, Rinko Kawauchi’s latest monograph.
Emily Haas Davidson and Bruce Davidson in conversation on their latest project, Bobby’s Book.
Charlotte Cotton discusses a wave of photographic innovation.
Six traveling exhibitions to follow this Spring 2013.
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.