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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.

How to Produce a Photobook

Four bookmaking experts speak about each step of the production process—from making an image sequence to finding the perfect paper, size, and design.

A Look Inside the Shortlisted Titles for the 2021 PhotoBook Awards

These 35 photobooks highlight excellence in publishing across a wide range of topics and photographic styles.

A Seven-Volume Photobook Retells the Story of an Ancient Hindu Epic


In his contemporary iteration of the Ramayana, Vasantha Yogananthan’s photographs consider memory, history, and the poetics of daily life.
Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Every Moment Counts (Ecstatic-Antibodies), 1989

How Autograph’s Photobooks Champion Black British Photography

Since the 1980s, the London-based organization has propelled a commitment to the visibility of Black artists by centering identity and human rights.
Dave Swindells, Thinking big and living large in Pacha, 1989

Visions of Nightlife from Johannesburg to Ibiza

Two recent photobooks offer up nostalgia for the dance floor—and imagine the hedonism of a post-pandemic future.

A Japanese Photographer’s Bittersweet Archive of His Late Wife

Since 1989, Seiichi Furuya has revisited his intimately quotidian images of his wife in a series of photobooks that affirm photography’s potential to heal, remember, and reimagine a life.
William Klein, Life is Good & Good for You in New York, 1956

Life Is Good for You in William Klein’s New York

In the 1950s, no U.S. publisher would touch Klein’s photobook about the city. But six decades later, his teeming vision of New York has become an icon of postwar popular culture.
Hank Willis Thomas, You Don’t Have to Try So Hard, 2015

Two Photobooks Consider the Pervasive Fantasies of Whiteness

Working with archival imagery or deftly staged portraits, an array of artists lay bare the sinister underpinnings of white respectability.

For Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Books Are a Way to Think About Time

The LA-based artist speaks about the process of editing—and the role that bookmaking has played in the evolution of his work.

12 Inspiring Photobooks by Women Photographers

From seminal first monographs by Diane Arbus and Nan Goldin to modern classics by Deana Lawson, Rinko Kawauchi and more.

What is a Feminist Photobook?

Carmen Winant on feminism, photobooks, and the radical gestures of world-building.

The Publisher at the Forefront of Photographic Literature

Image Text Ithaca is leading the way in experimental and hybrid image-text photobooks.

13 Publications that Reimagine Queer Visibility

From Zanele Muholi’s radical statements of identity to Nan Goldin’s iconic visual diary, Aperture highlights artists whose work illuminates LGBTQ+ perspectives.

What is a Photo-Text Book?

Since the nineteenth century, photographers and writers have collaborated as equals—to varying degrees of success.

What Does Photo Editing Look Like?

In the digital age, locking down a sequence of images in print can seem like an act of resistance.

Unpacking Ed Ruscha

A new exhibition offers an inside look at the artist’s book-making practice.

Five Book Design Trends Spotted in the PhotoBook Awards Shortlist

Coordinating editor of The PhotoBook Review, Madeline Coleman, highlights design trends found in this year’s PhotoBook Awards shortlist.
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Aperture 254

This spring, Aperture presents “Counter Histories,” an issue produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation and informed by their ongoing Counter Histories grant initiative, featuring artists from around the world who tell new stories about how the past informs the present.