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Rediscovering Hisae Imai’s Otherworldly Vision

Once a darling of Tokyo’s avant-garde and fashion scenes in the 1960s, Imai took an unexpected turn after a tragic accident.

Eikoh Hosoe’s Mythic Worlds

In his collaborations with influential literary figures and performers, Hosoe created surreal scenes that invoke the fantastic.

How Irving Penn and Issey Miyake Redefined the Fashion Photograph

The creative exchange between two titans gave clothing a voice of its own.

Kikuji Kawada on the Traumas of History and the Skies above Japan

In a conversation with Ryuichi Kaneko, the celebrated photographer discusses the arc of his career and the making of the iconic 1965 photobook The Map.

Delirious Tokyo

In a new exhibition, Daido Moriyama returns to his icons and obsessions.

The Endless Outer World

Daido Moriyama speaks about his Provoke days and capturing the streets of Tokyo.

Tokyo Reimagined

As Japan’s capital transformed, Yutaka Takanashi deployed a radical style to picture urban change.

For a New World to Come

Curator Yasufumi Nakamori discusses his game-changing show of Japanese photography with Aperture magazine editor Michael Famighetti.

The PhotoBook Review: Photobooks After 3/11

The destruction the Great Tohoku Earthquake and tsunami waves created have profoundly impacted the way art is both made and received in Japan.

Tokyo's Spaces

Journalist Kenji Takazawa provides an essential guide for your next photographic tour of Japan’s capital.

The PhotoBook Review: Collecting the Japanese Photobook, Part Two

A conversation with Manfred Heiting from The PhotoBook Review 008.

Takashi Homma's Tokyo Obscura

An excerpt from a portfolio in Aperture magazine #219, Summer 2015, “Tokyo.”

Tokyo Aperture #219 – Editors' Note

Aperture magazine’s editors on our Summer 2015 issue and the vast photography landscape in Tokyo.

Collecting the Japanese Photobook

Ivan Vartanian spoke to Ryuichi Kaneko about how he became one of the first and most enduring champions of the Japanese photobook.

Tokyo Diary

Aperture magazine’s editors spent three weeks in Tokyo researching and assembling our Summer issue of the magazine, dedicated to photography from Japan.

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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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