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Our Births, Ourselves

Carmen Winant’s archive considers the terrors and pleasures of childbirth.

Library as Studio

Where do artists go for inspiration? For some, it’s a museum, for others, it’s the stacks.

Editor's Note

Libraries multiply the audience for a book—almost without limit.

Robert Adams on Gregory Halpern, ZZYZX

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

Video Response: Amos Mulder on Inka and Niclas Lindergård, The Belt of Venus and the Shadow of the Earth

Amos Mulder is a video artist whose works include visual responses to found footage, texts, and photographic…

Peter Kayafas on Terry Tempest Williams, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks

  America is defined as much by its open spaces—where the hand of man is invisible or…

Justine Kurland on Mariken Wessels Taking Off. Henry My Neighbor

A photographer’s obsessive relationship with his wife, and the powerful yet peculiar work that resulted.

Doug DuBois on Chris Killip In Flagrante Two

My first encounter with In Flagrante (1988) was in San Francisco, where the year it was released…

Eugénie Shinkle on Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin Spirit is a Bone

The images in Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s Spirit is a Bone were made using advanced facial…

Andrew Stefan Weiner on Marcel Broodthaers Musée d ’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles, Section Publicité

The Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers has long suffered from a bifurcated reception: while his work has been…

Stephanie H. Tung on Xu Yong Negatives

I don’t expect to be reaching for my iPhone when I open a book. Yet Xu Yong’s…

Design Books to Know

Designers and critics share the books that have inspired their work

Editor's Note

Editors’ Note Photobook Review Fall 2015
Arthur Herrman and Jeroen Kummer

One Plus One Is Three: A Conversation on Collaboration

Many good photobooks result from sustained, long-term collaboration—the kind that goes much further than just calling in…

Issue 21 of the Aperture Photography App is Now Available

The new issue of the Aperture Photography App is now available to download on your iOS device. Here’s a look inside Issue 20.

The PhotoBook Review: Collecting the Japanese Photobook, Part Two

A conversation with Manfred Heiting from The PhotoBook Review 008.

On Philip Gefter’s Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe

Philip Gefter’s new biography of Sam Wagstaff examines the life of the influential curator and collector, and his romantic relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe.

Announcing the New Issue of The PhotoBook Review

The Spring 2015 issue of The PhotoBook Review, Aperture’s biannual journal dedicated to the consideration of the photobook, is out now.
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Aperture No. 257

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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