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8 Photobooks that Consider How Artists Engage with the Environment

From Kimowan Metchewais’s layered images on Indigenous identity to Robert Adams’s meditations on the American West, here are titles that explore the relationship between photography and the natural world.

The Light All Around Us

In his 1970s photographs from Colorado, Robert Adams finds the beauty and emotion in everyday homes.

12 Photographers on How They Conceptualize Their Work

What comes first–the idea for a project, or the images themselves?

Robert Adams on Gregory Halpern, ZZYZX

D. H. Lawrence admired the American Southwest but found Southern California troubling: “In a way, it has…

Subversive Novelist Seeks Her Muse in Pictures

In San Francisco, the author of the controversial novel A Little Life stages an exhibition about loneliness and beauty.

Five Most Popular Interviews of 2012

A look back at Aperture’s top five of 2012.

Tim Davis – The Neighborhood Ketchup Ad

From Aperture 209: Tim Davis considers the photographic history of American housing.

Aperture Remix Exhibition Opening at Aperture Gallery

A new photography exhibition at Aperture Gallery opens Wednesday, October 17.

Vintage Photography Posters from the Vault

Classics freshly uncovered from Aperture’s archives, featuring Diane Arbus, Robert Adams, and Mary Ellen Mark cover art.

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Aperture Magazine No. 261, “The Craft Issue” Cover
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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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