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JAMES MOLLISON: PLAYGROUND James Mollison's photo projects are based on smart, original concepts applied to serious social and environmental themes. For his latest book, Playground, Mollison has photographed children at play in school playgrounds, inspired by memories of his own childhood, and interested in how we all learn to negotiate relationships and our place in the world at a young age through play. MARTIN PARR: THE NON-CONFORMISTS Martin Parr is a key figure in the world of photography, recognized as a brilliant satirist of contemporary life. He has published over seventy photobooks of his photographs, including The Non-Conformists (Aperture, 2013), Black Country Stories (2014), and We Love Britain (2014). His work is also in the collections of museums worldwide SUMMER NIGHTS, WALKING Robert Adams revisits the classic collection of nocturnal landscapes that he began making in the mid-1970s near his former home in Longmont, Colorado, originally published by Aperture in 1985 as Summer Nights.This exquisitely produced new edition has been carefully re-edited and re-sequenced by the photographer, who has added 39 previously unpublished images. SHE CAPTURED THE FACE OF MODERN IRAN Shirin Aliabadi, Miss Hybrid, 2008. Courtesy The Third Line, Dubai. Shirin Aliabadi, an Iranian multidisciplinary artist known for her colorful portraits of young women breaking the stereotypes associated with the country’s strict moral and dress codes, passed away in her native Tehran in October. She was forty-five. EVERYTHING WAS MOVING: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE 60S AND 70S The Barbican’s ambitious survey of photography from the 1960s and ’70s offered up a dual portrait of the times. On one hand, it was an exhibition about history, charting the seismic shifts occurring all over the world in those decades. Its itinerary took in Apartheid-era South Africa, the American civil rights movement, post-colonial Mali, the Vietnam war, China in the grip of the Cultural THE LIVES OF SAMUEL FOSSO Yves Chatap: Your earliest exhibition dates back to the first Bamako Biennale in 1994. Can you tell us about that experience? Samuel Fosso: For the first edition of the Biennale, emissaries were sent all over Africa to find photographers. There was a French photographer, Bernard Descamps, who discovered my work while visiting Bangui and invited me to participate in this exhibition. DOROTHEA LANGE AND THE AFTERLIFE OF PHOTOGRAPHS Dorothea Lange and the Afterlife of Photographs. A new exhibition reveals how Lange’s concern for the dispossessed has never been more relevant. In 1934, in the midst of an economic, agricultural, and environmental disaster that was actively devastating the United States during the long depression, Dorothea Lange abandoned her lucrative San APERTURE MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION Aperture Magazine Subscription quantity. Subscribe Now. In stock. Description. Subscribe now and get the collectible print edition and the digital edition four times a year, plus unlimited access to Aperture’s online archive. Also, receive a free subscription to The PhotoBook Review, mailed with the Winter issue of the magazine.

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THE FLAG PROJECT 2021 The Flag Project 2021 is a public art installation celebrating New York in photographs. Members of the public were invited to submit photographs inspired by the city, with 83 winning submissions chosen by Aperture executive director Chris Boot produced as flags and flown from the iconic flagpoles of Rockefeller Plaza.

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Publication date: 2021-03-23. Measurements: 9.25 x 12 x 0.6 inches. ISBN: 9781597115032. Significant support of Aperture magazine is provided by The Kanakia Foundation and by Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović. Aperture gratefully acknowledges Judy and Leonard Lauder for their lead support of the “New York” issue, and Laumont

Editions

JAMES MOLLISON: PLAYGROUND James Mollison's photo projects are based on smart, original concepts applied to serious social and environmental themes. For his latest book, Playground, Mollison has photographed children at play in school playgrounds, inspired by memories of his own childhood, and interested in how we all learn to negotiate relationships and our place in the world at a young age through play. MARTIN PARR: THE NON-CONFORMISTS Martin Parr is a key figure in the world of photography, recognized as a brilliant satirist of contemporary life. He has published over seventy photobooks of his photographs, including The Non-Conformists (Aperture, 2013), Black Country Stories (2014), and We Love Britain (2014). His work is also in the collections of museums worldwide SUMMER NIGHTS, WALKING Robert Adams revisits the classic collection of nocturnal landscapes that he began making in the mid-1970s near his former home in Longmont, Colorado, originally published by Aperture in 1985 as Summer Nights.This exquisitely produced new edition has been carefully re-edited and re-sequenced by the photographer, who has added 39 previously unpublished images. SHE CAPTURED THE FACE OF MODERN IRAN Shirin Aliabadi, Miss Hybrid, 2008. Courtesy The Third Line, Dubai. Shirin Aliabadi, an Iranian multidisciplinary artist known for her colorful portraits of young women breaking the stereotypes associated with the country’s strict moral and dress codes, passed away in her native Tehran in October. She was forty-five. EVERYTHING WAS MOVING: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE 60S AND 70S The Barbican’s ambitious survey of photography from the 1960s and ’70s offered up a dual portrait of the times. On one hand, it was an exhibition about history, charting the seismic shifts occurring all over the world in those decades. Its itinerary took in Apartheid-era South Africa, the American civil rights movement, post-colonial Mali, the Vietnam war, China in the grip of the Cultural THE LIVES OF SAMUEL FOSSO Yves Chatap: Your earliest exhibition dates back to the first Bamako Biennale in 1994. Can you tell us about that experience? Samuel Fosso: For the first edition of the Biennale, emissaries were sent all over Africa to find photographers. There was a French photographer, Bernard Descamps, who discovered my work while visiting Bangui and invited me to participate in this exhibition. DOROTHEA LANGE AND THE AFTERLIFE OF PHOTOGRAPHS Dorothea Lange and the Afterlife of Photographs. A new exhibition reveals how Lange’s concern for the dispossessed has never been more relevant. In 1934, in the midst of an economic, agricultural, and environmental disaster that was actively devastating the United States during the long depression, Dorothea Lange abandoned her lucrative San

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This summer, Aperture presents a special issue focused on the relationship between photography, urbanism, and activist trajectories from within and outside Delhi. Guest edited by Rahaab Allana, the Alkazi Foundation’s lead curator, the issue explores multiple incarnations of the city’s photographic culture, from O. P. Sharma’s experimental works from the 1960s to Aditi Jain’s

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HOW THREE PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE WORKING THROUGH INDIA'S COVID koī haath bhī na milā.egā jo gale miloge tapāk se ye na.e mizāj kā shahr hai zarā fāsle se milā karo (You’ll be refused a handshake if you go for an ardent embrace.This city’s in a fresh temper, keep your distance when meeting. A NEW DIGITAL PLATFORM ASKS WHAT TRUTH MEANS IN PHOTOGRAPHY With issues of truth more pressing than ever, Alan Govenar started an online space for critical discussion about the role of images in

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A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN AMERICA’S NATIONAL PARKS When Aperture and George Eastman Museum first published Picturing America’s National Parks in 2016, we sought to tell the story of how photography has shaped the parks over their hundred-year history. The book brings together some of the finest landscape photography from America’s most magnificent and sacred environments, examining how IN DELHI, DYNAMIC IMAGES AND SHARED SOLIDARITIES We are described into corners, and then we have to describe our way out of corners. —Salman Rushdie, in an interview with W. L. Webb. In April 2019, as the general elections in India dominated the media, an international team of astronomers published the first photograph of a black hole, silhouetted against a disc of glowing gas surrounding this cosmic void, the threshold beyond ARUNDHATI ROY SEES DELHI AS A NOVEL Ghosh: In its magnificent embrace of people (living and dead), creatures (birds, mammals, bugs), and places (from the dystopian to the paradisal), Utmost Happiness imagines a world where the nonhuman is integral.Even in The God of Small Things, the world in which the narrative unfolds is as important as the protagonists themselves.In your universe, it seems to me, the human predicament is SUNIL GUPTA’S VISION FOR A QUEER POLITICS OF BELONGING On November 26, 1982, the Guardian, in its Third World Review section, ran a piece with the startling headline “They Dare Not Speak Its Name in Delhi: Sunil Gupta on the Secret Suffering of India’s Homosexual Community.”At the time, being gay in India was still illegal, as decreed by Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, instituted in 1861 during the British rule of India.

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Photographs and text by Angélica Dass. Angélica Dass (born in Rio de Janeiro, 1979) is a Brazilian artist of African, European, and Native American descent who lives in Spain. She is creator of the internationally acclaimed Humanae Project, a collection of over 4,500 portraits from around the world that reveal the diverse beauty of

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THE SAN QUENTIN PROJECT The San Quentin Project collects a largely unseen visual record of daily life inside one of America’s oldest and largest prisons, demonstrating how this archive of the state is now being used to teach visual literacy and process the experience of incarceration. In 2011, Nigel Poor—artist, educator, and cocreator of the acclaimed podcast

Ear Hustle—began

SHE CAPTURED THE FACE OF MODERN IRAN Shirin Aliabadi, Miss Hybrid, 2008. Courtesy The Third Line, Dubai. Shirin Aliabadi, an Iranian multidisciplinary artist known for her colorful portraits of young women breaking the stereotypes associated with the country’s strict moral and dress codes, passed away in her native Tehran in October. She was forty-five. EVERYTHING WAS MOVING: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE 60S AND 70S The Barbican’s ambitious survey of photography from the 1960s and ’70s offered up a dual portrait of the times. On one hand, it was an exhibition about history, charting the seismic shifts occurring all over the world in those decades. Its itinerary took in Apartheid-era South Africa, the American civil rights movement, post-colonial Mali, the Vietnam war, China in the grip of the Cultural HOW JOHN BALDESSARI THREW THREE BALLS IN A STRAIGHT LINE In his 1973 series Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts), John Baldessari brought his impish wit to this modernist turn. He threw three balls in the air in hopes that a snapshot might catch them aloft and aligned. Through the magic of photography, gravity was defeated, and the balls never had to FOR ALEX MAJOLI, PHOTOJOURNALISM AND PERFORMANCE ARE For Alex Majoli, Photojournalism and Performance are Inseparable. Europe, Asia, Brazil, Congo. For eight years, across continents and countries, Alex Majoli has photographed events and nonevents. Political demonstrations, humanitarian emergencies, and quiet moments of daily life. What holds these disparate images together, at first

glance at

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Publication date: 2021-03-23. Measurements: 9.25 x 12 x 0.6 inches. ISBN: 9781597115032. Significant support of Aperture magazine is provided by The Kanakia Foundation and by Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović. Aperture gratefully acknowledges Judy and Leonard Lauder for their lead support of the “New York” issue, and Laumont

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THE COLORS WE SHARE

Photographs and text by Angélica Dass. Angélica Dass (born in Rio de Janeiro, 1979) is a Brazilian artist of African, European, and Native American descent who lives in Spain. She is creator of the internationally acclaimed Humanae Project, a collection of over 4,500 portraits from around the world that reveal the diverse beauty of

human colors.

THE SAN QUENTIN PROJECT The San Quentin Project collects a largely unseen visual record of daily life inside one of America’s oldest and largest prisons, demonstrating how this archive of the state is now being used to teach visual literacy and process the experience of incarceration. In 2011, Nigel Poor—artist, educator, and cocreator of the acclaimed podcast

Ear Hustle—began

SHE CAPTURED THE FACE OF MODERN IRAN Shirin Aliabadi, Miss Hybrid, 2008. Courtesy The Third Line, Dubai. Shirin Aliabadi, an Iranian multidisciplinary artist known for her colorful portraits of young women breaking the stereotypes associated with the country’s strict moral and dress codes, passed away in her native Tehran in October. She was forty-five. EVERYTHING WAS MOVING: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE 60S AND 70S The Barbican’s ambitious survey of photography from the 1960s and ’70s offered up a dual portrait of the times. On one hand, it was an exhibition about history, charting the seismic shifts occurring all over the world in those decades. Its itinerary took in Apartheid-era South Africa, the American civil rights movement, post-colonial Mali, the Vietnam war, China in the grip of the Cultural HOW JOHN BALDESSARI THREW THREE BALLS IN A STRAIGHT LINE In his 1973 series Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts), John Baldessari brought his impish wit to this modernist turn. He threw three balls in the air in hopes that a snapshot might catch them aloft and aligned. Through the magic of photography, gravity was defeated, and the balls never had to FOR ALEX MAJOLI, PHOTOJOURNALISM AND PERFORMANCE ARE For Alex Majoli, Photojournalism and Performance are Inseparable. Europe, Asia, Brazil, Congo. For eight years, across continents and countries, Alex Majoli has photographed events and nonevents. Political demonstrations, humanitarian emergencies, and quiet moments of daily life. What holds these disparate images together, at first

glance at

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This summer, Aperture presents a special issue focused on the relationship between photography, urbanism, and activist trajectories from within and outside Delhi. Guest edited by Rahaab Allana, the Alkazi Foundation’s lead curator, the issue explores multiple incarnations of the city’s photographic culture, from O. P. Sharma’s experimental works from the 1960s to Aditi Jain’s

intimate

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THE FLAG PROJECT 2021 The Flag Project 2021 is a public art installation celebrating New York in photographs. Members of the public were invited to submit photographs inspired by the city, with 83 winning submissions chosen by Aperture executive director Chris Boot produced as flags and flown from the iconic flagpoles of Rockefeller Plaza. SUMMER NIGHTS, WALKING Robert Adams revisits the classic collection of nocturnal landscapes that he began making in the mid-1970s near his former home in Longmont, Colorado, originally published by Aperture in 1985 as Summer Nights.This exquisitely produced new edition has been carefully re-edited and re-sequenced by the photographer, who has added 39 previously unpublished images.

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Guest edited by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Vision & Justice addresses the role of photography in the African American experience. This award-winning issue of Aperture magazine was released in summer 2016, in a political moment defined by the close of the Obama era and the steady rise of #BlackLivesMatter activism. As a racial reckoning continues in the United States, this powerful issue remains an EIKOH HOSOE: BARAKEI Eikoh Hosoe (born in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, 1933) is an integral part of the history of modern Japanese photography; he remains a driving force not only for his own work, but also for his efforts as a teacher and ambassador, fostering artistic exchange between Japan and the rest of the world. Hosoe is represented by Howard Greenberg THE LIVES OF SAMUEL FOSSO Yves Chatap: Your earliest exhibition dates back to the first Bamako Biennale in 1994. Can you tell us about that experience? Samuel Fosso: For the first edition of the Biennale, emissaries were sent all over Africa to find photographers. There was a French photographer, Bernard Descamps, who discovered my work while visiting Bangui and invited me to participate in this exhibition. HOW JOHN BALDESSARI THREW THREE BALLS IN A STRAIGHT LINE In his 1973 series Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts), John Baldessari brought his impish wit to this modernist turn. He threw three balls in the air in hopes that a snapshot might catch them aloft and aligned. Through the magic of photography, gravity was defeated, and the balls never had to FOR ALEX MAJOLI, PHOTOJOURNALISM AND PERFORMANCE ARE For Alex Majoli, Photojournalism and Performance are Inseparable. Europe, Asia, Brazil, Congo. For eight years, across continents and countries, Alex Majoli has photographed events and nonevents. Political demonstrations, humanitarian emergencies, and quiet moments of daily life. What holds these disparate images together, at first

glance at

SHE CAPTURED THE FACE OF MODERN IRAN Shirin Aliabadi, Miss Hybrid, 2008. Courtesy The Third Line, Dubai. Shirin Aliabadi, an Iranian multidisciplinary artist known for her colorful portraits of young women breaking the stereotypes associated with the country’s strict moral and dress codes, passed away in her native Tehran in October. She was forty-five.

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of

THE FLAG PROJECT 2021 The Flag Project 2021 is a public art installation celebrating New York in photographs. Members of the public were invited to submit photographs inspired by the city, with 83 winning submissions chosen by Aperture executive director Chris Boot produced as flags and flown from the iconic flagpoles of Rockefeller Plaza. SUMMER NIGHTS, WALKING Robert Adams revisits the classic collection of nocturnal landscapes that he began making in the mid-1970s near his former home in Longmont, Colorado, originally published by Aperture in 1985 as Summer Nights.This exquisitely produced new edition has been carefully re-edited and re-sequenced by the photographer, who has added 39 previously unpublished images.

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Guest edited by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Vision & Justice addresses the role of photography in the African American experience. This award-winning issue of Aperture magazine was released in summer 2016, in a political moment defined by the close of the Obama era and the steady rise of #BlackLivesMatter activism. As a racial reckoning continues in the United States, this powerful issue remains an EIKOH HOSOE: BARAKEI Eikoh Hosoe (born in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, 1933) is an integral part of the history of modern Japanese photography; he remains a driving force not only for his own work, but also for his efforts as a teacher and ambassador, fostering artistic exchange between Japan and the rest of the world. Hosoe is represented by Howard Greenberg THE LIVES OF SAMUEL FOSSO Yves Chatap: Your earliest exhibition dates back to the first Bamako Biennale in 1994. Can you tell us about that experience? Samuel Fosso: For the first edition of the Biennale, emissaries were sent all over Africa to find photographers. There was a French photographer, Bernard Descamps, who discovered my work while visiting Bangui and invited me to participate in this exhibition. HOW JOHN BALDESSARI THREW THREE BALLS IN A STRAIGHT LINE In his 1973 series Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts), John Baldessari brought his impish wit to this modernist turn. He threw three balls in the air in hopes that a snapshot might catch them aloft and aligned. Through the magic of photography, gravity was defeated, and the balls never had to FOR ALEX MAJOLI, PHOTOJOURNALISM AND PERFORMANCE ARE For Alex Majoli, Photojournalism and Performance are Inseparable. Europe, Asia, Brazil, Congo. For eight years, across continents and countries, Alex Majoli has photographed events and nonevents. Political demonstrations, humanitarian emergencies, and quiet moments of daily life. What holds these disparate images together, at first

glance at

SHE CAPTURED THE FACE OF MODERN IRAN Shirin Aliabadi, Miss Hybrid, 2008. Courtesy The Third Line, Dubai. Shirin Aliabadi, an Iranian multidisciplinary artist known for her colorful portraits of young women breaking the stereotypes associated with the country’s strict moral and dress codes, passed away in her native Tehran in October. She was forty-five.

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INSIDE THE PRISONS OF THE OLD SOUTH The mesmerizing thirty-minute, black-and-white documentary film they produced, Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison, records the chants and the rhythmic chopping, with very little narration. It’s the only known film record of a tradition that, by the following year, had literally vanished. Bruce Jackson, Texas and Arkansas prison MEET THE PHOTOGRAPHER WHO CHRONICLED THE RAVES OF ’90S-ERA Portfolios - September 8, 2016. Vinca Petersen, No System, 1999. Courtesy the artist. Vinca Petersen didn’t set out to be a photographer. Her pictures began as a visual diary, documenting her leaving home at the age of seventeen, moving into a London squat, and becoming involved in the free party scene that blossomed across Europe

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ZANELE MUHOLI'S FACES & PHASES Faces and Phases is the subject of an extensive book, published by Steidl last fall, that forms a monumental chapter in Muholi’s mission to remedy black queer invisibility. Muholi’s work has been exhibited globally and she will have her first large-scale museum exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence,

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HOW YURIE NAGASHIMA'S SELF PORTRAITS INTERROGATE THE MALE GAZE Somewhere, somehow, I ran into Yurie Nagashima’s Self-Portraits (1993)—a black-and-white series of herself and her family posing in the nude—a hilariously cutting rebuttal to the usual depiction of women (and families) in Japanese media. They were raw, unabashed, and pointedly critical of the power imbalance saddled upon Japanese women.

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April 9th, 2020

Three artists confront how COVID-19 has changed their lives and work—and how they see the world.

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THE NEW BLACK VANGUARD: PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN ART AND FASHION BUNJIL PLACE, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - Curated by Antwaun Sargent Photographs by Campbell Addy, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Micaiah Carter, Awol Erizku, Nadine Ijewere, Quil Lemons, Namsa Leuba, Renell Medrano, Tyler Mitchell, Jamal Nxedlana, Daniel Obasi, Ruth Ossai, Adrienne Raquel, Dana Scruggs, and Stephen Tayo The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion presents artists, whose vibrant portraits and conceptual images fuse the genres of art and fashion photography in ways that break down long-established boundaries. Their work has been widely consumed in traditional lifestyle magazines, ad campaigns, and museums, as well as on their individual social-media channels, reinfusing the contemporary visual vocabulary around beauty and…

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Apr 18 - Apr 19

Instagram Live: PhotoBook Makers, Collectors, and Evangelists

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Join Aperture’s creative director, Lesley A. Martin, on Saturday and Sunday for live chats with photographers, designers, and publishers about the role of books in the world, including connecting photobooks to readers and other challenges faced by publishers, artists, and bookmakers. We’ll also make time to discuss the small pleasures found in libraries—at home and elsewhere.

Saturday, April 18

2:00 p.m.: Hans Gremmen, designer, publisher, and cofounder of ENTER ENTER: A Space for Books 2:30 p.m.: Sharon Helgason Gallagher, president and publisher of

ARTBOOK / D.A.P.

Sunday, April 19

2:00 p.m.: Todd Hido, photographer and photobook collector

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Apr 21

Richard Renaldi on Touching Strangers

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Join Aperture for a virtual artist talk with photographer Richard Renaldi, as he looks back at his 2014 project Touching Strangers in relation to the current pandemic. For Touching Strangers, Renaldi approached people who didn’t know each other to pose together for a portrait, asking them to physically interact for the frame. At a time when countries across the globe are practicing social distancing and people must keep six feet away from one another, how does this work take on a new meaning?

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Apr 22

In the Library with Darius Himes

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Join us for “In the Library” with Darius Himes, Christie’s international head of photographs and photobook aficionado. Lesley A. Martin, Aperture’s creative director, will lead the conversation. Topics will include how and why we might turn to photobooks during difficult times and the value of building one’s own bespoke

photobook library.

All Aperture members will receive a Zoom invite. Not a member? See here or email kwalcott@aperture.org for more details.

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Apr 24 - Apr 26

Virtual Assembly

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Aperture will take part in Virtual Assembly, an experimental new platform – part virtual photobook festival, part live-streamed symposium around books and photographic practice. Join us for conversations with Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Sara Cwynar, Justine Kurland, Aperture creative director Lesley A. Martin, and others. Times and dates to be announced.

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Instagram Live: Ethan James Green

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Join _Aperture_ magazine’s managing editor, Brendan Embser, for a conversation on Instagram Live with artist and photographer Ethan James Green. In 2017, Green’s portraits of downtown New York artists, models, queer youth, and muses to the fashion world and beyond were featured in _Aperture _magazine’s “Future Gender

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edited by Zackary Drucker. Last year, Aperture published Green’s first monograph, _Young New York_

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collection of fifty-five striking black-and-white portraits of Green’s friends and community, which brings to mind the luminous photography of David Armstrong and Diane Arbus. In this conversation, Green speaks about his recent commissions and covers for _Vogue_ and _Vanity Fair_, his ongoing personal work, and the new landscape of fashion photography today. Ethan James Green (born in Caledonia, Michigan, 1990) moved to New York as a teenager to work as a model. As a photographer, he has been commissioned by publications such as _Another Man_, _Dazed & Confused_, _Re-Edition_, _Love Magazine_, _i-D_, _Arena Homme +_, _Vogue Italia_, _Vogue Paris_, and _W_, and fashion labels including Alexander McQueen, Miu Miu, and Prada.

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Photo London 2020

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Visit Aperture at Photo London 2020 at Somerset House. Aperture will present a selection of new titles, best sellers, signed and rare books, and new limited-edition prints. More information coming soon.

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