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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.

Sam Contis Asks What It Means to Move through the Landscape

In her photographs of England’s stiles and centuries-old footpaths, the artist reflects on how we cross boundaries—and the ways we have shaped the natural world.

9 Inspiring Photobooks by Contemporary Women Photographers

From Justine Kurland’s imagined runaways to Wendy Red Star’s feminist, Indigenous perspective, here are essential titles by today’s leading artists.

Being and Belonging at MoMA

Behind the scenes of the museum’s latest showcase for new photography.
Sam Contis, Hold Down, 2014

Photographing the Body Electric

Sam Contis’s first photobook revels in the land, skin, and mythologies of the American West.

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Aperture presents “Image Worlds to Come: Photography & AI,” a timely and urgent issue that explores how artificial intelligence is quickly transforming the field of photography and our broader culture of images.

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