From the photographs that inspired Sofia Coppola’s films to Zanele Muholi’s visual activism, here are this year’s highlights in photography and ideas.
Anthony Hernandez takes a hard look at the neglected landscapes of Los Angeles.
Ruben Lundgren speaks with Yuan Di about his independent Chinese publishing house, Jiazazhi Press
In 1826 a thirty-year-old slave escapes captivity becoming a legally free, outspoken and effective supporter of the abolitionist cause.
Kristen Lubben reflects on a collection of glamour shots, stills from movie sets, photobooth portraits, family snapshots, and typewritten captions which make up a fictional archive.
In what ways is the photobook a useful framing device for archival projects?
Photographer Macro Breuer reflects on the lasting images in Evidence for The PhotoBook Review 010
I don’t expect to be reaching for my iPhone when I open a book. Yet Xu Yong’s…
Designers and critics share the books that have inspired their work
Editors’ Note Photobook Review Fall 2015 Arthur Herrman and Jeroen Kummer
Many good photobooks result from sustained, long-term collaboration—the kind that goes much further than just calling in…
“There is no truer mark of financial success than making money work for you, instead of having…
My bookshelves are a repository that’s both retrospective and forward-looking. They represent numerous journeys I’ve already taken…
The destruction the Great Tohoku Earthquake and tsunami waves created have profoundly impacted the way art is both made and received in Japan.
Philip Gefter’s new biography of Sam Wagstaff examines the life of the influential curator and collector, and his romantic relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe.
Jason Fulford and Aperture editor Denise Wolff discussed the parallel lives of a book through its events, and the event as intersection of artist and viewer.
Ivan Vartanian spoke to Ryuichi Kaneko about how he became one of the first and most enduring champions of the Japanese photobook.
In 1995, I began an editorial internship at Aperture. (Just one week before, Lesley Martin had started…
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.
