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Redux: Italo Calvino’s “The Adventure of a Photographer”
By Aveek Sen Italo Calvino, Paris, January 1984. Photograph by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images. Italo Calvino, the Italian writer, began his tribute to Roland Barthes in La Repubblica with a horrific image...
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Gus the Bear
By Sylvia Plachy This essay was first published in issue 206 of Aperture magazine (Spring 2012). Stop and go: always on some journey. My bounty is a photograph or two. I remember what pulled me, an...
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Night Climbing
By Ian Jeffrey The Ivy Arch, St. John's College, St. John's Street. All photographs © Noël Howard Symington, The Night Climbers of Cambridge/Collection Thomas Mailaender. Lion chimney (narrow climbing...
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Basetrack: Conversation with Teru Kuwayama
Balazs Gardi, Afghan detainee at Patrol Base Talibjan, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, November 7, 2010 In 2010, after many years of covering the war in Afghanistan, freelance photojournalist Teru...
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The Collectors: Matt Wolf
On the occasion of Matt Wolf’s newest documentary Teenage we are republishing this brief musing by Wolf on his favorite photograph, originally printed in The Collectors column from Aperture magazine,...
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Songs Left Out of Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency
To mark the third printing of Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency we are featuring this piece by Greil Marcus on the soundtrack to Goldin’s original slideshow presentation of the work. Originally...
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Aperture #215—Editors’ Note
The following note first appeared in Aperture magazine #215 Summer 2014. Subscribe here to read it first, in print or online. View of São Paulo and Copan building, 2013. Photograph by Tuca Vieira Was...
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Caio Reisewitz by Christopher Phillips
The following first appeared in Aperture magazine #215 Summer 2014. Subscribe here to read it first, in print or online. Caio Reisewitz, Cubatão II, 2003. © Caio Reisewitz and courtesy Luciana Brito...
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Groupshot by Ronaldo Entler
The following feature first appeared in Aperture magazine #215 Summer 2014. Subscribe here to read it first, in print or online. Photography collectives with diverse styles and philosophies are...
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Revisiting the Winogrand Archive: Philip Lorca diCorcia in Conversation with...
Garry Winogrand, New York ca. 1960. © Estate of Garry Winogrand and courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco Garry Winogrand, Grand Central Terminal, New York, 1964. © Estate of Garry Winogrand and...
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Bárbara Wagner: The Maracatu by Agnaldo Farias
The following first appeared in Aperture magazine #215 Summer 2014. Subscribe here to read it first, in print or online. Bárbara Wagner, Águia Dourada (Golden eagle), 2010. Courtesy Galleria...
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Light Writing in the Tropics: The Story of Hercule Florence
In the 1830s, an adventurer and inventor named Hercule Florence sought to score the Amazon’s abundant birdsong. When attempting to print his peculiar manuscript about nature’s sound archive, he also...
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The Other Life of Photographs
by Charles Bowden The pile of Aperture issues rests on the clean table as cool north light seeps into the old brownstones. I tell myself to think of the half century of issues, sequencings, arguments,...
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Aperture #216 – Editors’ Note
The following note first appeared in Aperture magazine #216 Summer 2014. Subscribe here to read it first, in print or online. Inez & Vinoodh, Waiting for Kate, 2001 © Inez & Vinoodh and...
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Recap: Aperture “Fashion” Launch at Gagosian Shop
On Tuesday, September 9, at the height of New York Fashion Week, the Gagosian Shop hosted the launch of Aperture magazine’s Fall 2014 issue, #216, “Fashion”. Guest-editors Inez & Vinoodh joined...
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The Lives of the Saints by Charles Bowden
David Wojnarowicz, Where I’ll Go After I’m Gone, 1988-89, courtesy the estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York Hummingbirds appear before dawn, a whirring and darting at the feeders....
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Emmanuelle Alt: Conversation with Penny Martin
Inez & Vinoodh, Emmanuelle Alt, 2014 © Inez & Vinoodh and courtesy Gagosian Gallery, New York, and The Collective Shift Fashion photography can be a nostalgic business, but Emmanuelle Alt’s...
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i-D, Jill, and The Face: Fashion’s Maverick Magazines
by Phil Bicker This article originally appeared in Aperture 216, Fall 2014, “Fashion”. Pages from i-D no. 1, August 1980, “Straight-Up.” Photographs by Steven Johnston The year 1980 saw the birth in...
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The Icons by Inez & Vinoodh
This piece was originally published in Aperture Magazine issue 216, Fall 2014, Fashion. Every fashion designer is consistently delving into the past, basing a collection on a string of memories, like...
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Fashion Film & the Photographic by Marketa Uhlirova
Still from Inez & Vinoodh fashion film with Daria Werbowy for Vogue Paris, 2012 Still from Jean-François Carly, I Feel for Raf Simons, 2005 Still from John Maybury film for Alexander McQueen...
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