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The Neighborhood Ketchup Ad: Photography and Housing in Unzoned America

Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 1998–2002. This essay appears in Aperture #209, the winter 2012 issue of the magazine. By Tim Davis Photography used to be a blue-collar job. You were on your feet all day,...

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Anders Petersen – Finding a Fever

This conversation between Anders Petersen and J.H. Engström originally appeared in Aperture #198, the Spring 2010 issue of the magazine, as Petersen was editing the work that would become City Diary,...

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Daido Moriyama: The Shock From Outside

Interview with Ivan Vartanian, first published in the issue 203 of Aperture magazine (Summer 2011). Moriyama’s latest volume, Labyrinth (Aperture, 2012), is now available. Japanese master-photographer...

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Aperture Magazine’s 2013 Relaunch

On the cover of Aperture’s Spring 2013 issue (#210) is a detail from an untitled 2012 photograph by Cologne- and Amsterdam-based artist Christopher Williams. The image is part of a new series of...

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INTERVIEW: Scott Williams of A2/SW/HK

The London-based graphic design studio A2/SW/HK (Scott Williams and Henrik Kubel) is responsible for Aperture magazine’s dramatic redesign. We asked Scott a few questions about process and inspiration....

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A2/SW/HK: On Press

London-based graphic design studio A2/SW/HK went on press with the Spring 2013 issue of Aperture magazine outside of Berlin this past December. Here, design team Scott Williams and Henrik Kubel...

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Lingua Photographica

By Gene McHugh This essay is one of a series of online-only texts commissioned to accompany Aperture‘s Spring 2013 issue, “Hello, Photography,” which examines the state of the medium in a time of great...

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Swiping at Pictures

By Christopher Y. Lew This essay is one of a series of online-only texts commissioned to accompany Aperture‘s Spring 2013 issue, “Hello, Photography,” which examines the state of the medium in a time...

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Interview with Owen Kydd

Owen Kydd is a Los Angeles–based artist who has recently garnered attention for his “durational photographs,” video works that run four to six minutes and explore the interstitial space between still...

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Thomas Ruff: Photograms for the New Age

For more than thirty years, German photographer Thomas Ruff has investigated the grammar and structures of photography, through his many celebrated series, Sterne/Stars (1989), maschinen/machines...

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Observing by Watching: Joachim Schmid and the Art of Exchange

By Geoffrey Batchen Joachim Schmid, from Other People’s Photographs: Self It is surely telling that in the same month—January 2012—Eastman Kodak declared bankruptcy and Facebook, the world’s largest...

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Lisa Oppenheim: Elemental Process

By Brian Sholis Lisa Oppenheim, Lunagram #1 (Version 2), 2010. All works © Lisa Oppenheim and courtesy Harris Lieberman, New York, and The Approach, London. Lisa Oppenheim, Lunagram #3 (Version 2),...

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Aperture 211—Editors’ Note: Curiosity

What provokes us to pursue something, to want to find out more? “Curiosity is an oddly ambivalent word,” notes critic Brian Dillon in this issue. It can lead, he points out, to a range of conditions,...

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John Divola at his Riverside Workplace

By Jonathan Griffin Views of John Divola's house and studio. All photographs © and courtesy John Divola. In the distance, a soaring elevated freeway intersection frames a widescreen view of the San...

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Aperture Magazine’s 2013 Relaunch

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Attention! Photography and Sidelong Discovery

By Brian Dillon Nina Katchadourian, Topiary, from Landscapes, part of the series Seat Assignment, 2010 and ongoing. Courtesy the artist and Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco. Curiosity is an oddly...

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Aperture #211—What Matters Now?

Photographs as Things Photograph by Andrew Blum’s three-year-old daughter. Courtesy Andrew Blum.   Photographs, especially personal ones, have always served as physical manifestations of memory. Held...

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Horst Ademeit: Secret Universe

By Lynne Cooke Horst Ademeit, Untitled (03.06.1992), 1992. All photos courtesy Galerie Susanne Zander/Delmes & Zander, Cologne. Horst Ademeit, Untitled (11.03.1994), 1994. Horst Ademeit, Untitled...

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Harold E. Edgerton—”Doc” Edgerton and His Laboratory Notebooks

By Jimena Canales Front cover of notebook 31, in use January 11, 1973–August 17, 1975. Page 88 from notebook 8, in use June 1, 1937–April 16, 1938. Page 47 from notebook 1, in use June 18,...

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Aperture #212 (Fall 2013)—Editors’ Note

Olaf Breuning, Pattern People, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures, New York. Over the course of her career Helen Levitt found no shortage of off-the-cuff comedy playing out in New York’s...

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