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The Craft Issue: Aperture No. 261, Winter 2025

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Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.


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Aperture’s winter issue considers the handmade in photography by assembling artists who use novel printing processes and techniques that forefront the physical materiality of the medium or explore its relationship to adjacent traditions, including ceramics, glass, textiles, design, and other forms of object making.

Format: Paperback / softback
Number of pages: 160
Publication date: 2025-12-01
Measurements: 8.5 x 10.6 x 0.5 inches
ISBN: 9781597115827

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The Craft Issue: Aperture No. 261, Winter 2025
The Craft Issue: Aperture No. 261, Winter 2025 Sale price$24.95

Table of Contents

Features

EDITORS’ NOTE
The Craft Issue

THE POLEMICS OF CRAFT
Theaster Gates is making the most of the material world
A conversation with Ekow Eshun

LOOKING GLASS
Ann Weathersby holds a mirror to expanded female consciousness
Rebecca Bengal

THINGS AS THEY ARE
Jungjin Lee’s landscapes of introspection
Julia Halperin

HANDS TO HEAVENS
The darkroom alchemy of Aspen Mays
Mimi Zeiger

THE DEPTH OF A POCKET
Christophe Lemaire and Sarah-Linh Tran on fashion, movies, and everyday gestures
A conversation with Alistair O’Neill

A VISION OF HER OWN
How Lucia Moholy immortalized the Bauhaus
Alice Rawsthorn

STITCHES IN TIME
Troy Montes Michie’s collages conjure fragments of queer history and desire
Zoë Hopkins

ZEN AND THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Irina Rozovsky and Mark Steinmetz on attention, focus, and darkroom magic
A conversation with Michael Famighetti

HYBRIDS
Erin Jane Nelson fuses ceramics and photography
Eli Cohen

TREASURE ISLAND
John Chiara’s custom camera obscuras illuminate the world’s simple mysteries
Dan Beachy-Quick

Columns

AGENDA
Michella Bredahl, Boris Mikhailov, Alejandro Cartagena, Ralph Eugene Meatyard

BACKSTORY
Quinn Moreland on Mimi Plumb’s prophetic images of America on the edge

VIEWFINDER
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Karim Kal’s mysterious views of nighttime Algeria

STUDIO VISIT
Lucienne Bestall on Jo Ractliffe’s Cape Town workspace

CURRICULUM
Philip Montgomery on Sade, Borderland, and the LAPD Archive

ENDNOTE
Edmund de Waal on a life amid archives and vessels

The Photobook Review

IDEAS OF AFRICA
Brendan Embser speaks with curator Oluremi C. Onabanjo

TURN-ON
Natasha Stagg visits Climax Books in New York

GOOD VIBRATIONS
Vince Aletti on Mark Borthwick’s early fashion photography

Reviews of photobooks by Nick Haymes, Nikolay Bakharev, Alanna Fields, Donna Gottschalk, and Yung Lean

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