{"title":"Shop All","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eNow through May 26, save up to 50% on select photobooks, magazines, and limited-edition prints.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery purchase supports the artists and conversations shaping the future of photography.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"untitled-from-illuminance","title":"Rinko Kawauchi: Untitled, from Illuminance","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis limited-edition photograph by world-renowned Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi was featured in the Aperture monograph \u003cem\u003eIlluminance\u003c\/em\u003e, the artist’s first book published outside of her native Japan. This body of previously unpublished photographs showcases Kawauchi’s ability to take ordinary life moments and turn them into extraordinary images. States the artist, “I want imagination in the photographs…a photograph is like a prologue. You wonder, ‘What's going on?’ You feel something is going to happen.” As Kawauchi intended, this image, with its subtle color palette punctuated with iridescent sparks of confetti, incites curiosity in the viewer, making us wonder about what we are looking at and what will happen next.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514062180486,"sku":"L0526","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/l0536.jpg?v=1772475005"},{"product_id":"three-pears-and-an-apple-france-ca-1921","title":"Edward Steichen: Three Pears and an Apple, France, ca. 1921","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe painterly effects of \u003cem\u003eThree Pears and an Apple\u003c\/em\u003e, a selection from \u003cem\u003eEdward Steichen: The Early Years Portfolio, 1900–1927\u003c\/em\u003e, are reflected in this memorable image’s soft focus and elegant composition. Steichen achieved the soft outlines of the fruit with a 36-hour exposure under indirect illumination. During this time, the film’s emulsion expanded and contracted in the changing temperatures, creating the subtle, dreamlike qualities of the image. Steichen’s dedication to achieving an initially conceived image and his expressive use of shape and imagery are testament to why he is credited with the transformation of photography into an art form.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514079547526,"sku":"L0201","price":595.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-L0201-1_4c473b82-fe58-448f-88e0-f3cce1c8e1a3.jpg?v=1763775651"},{"product_id":"in-memoriam-new-york","title":"Edward Steichen: In Memoriam, New York","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Memoriam\u003c\/em\u003e is a remarkably powerful image selected from \u003cem\u003eEdward Steichen: The Early Years Portfolio, 1900–1927\u003c\/em\u003e. The print, exemplary of his dreamlike, mysterious, and evocative masterpieces, embodies the qualities that define Steichen’s work. This monumental nude, from one of the American masters of the Photo-Secession movement, is one of the masterpieces of photographic pictorialism. Most likely made during a visit to Paris in 1900, and later printed in the United States and titled \u003cem\u003eIn Memoriam\u003c\/em\u003e, as an homage to the model after her death.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514079744134,"sku":"L0202","price":525.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-L0202-1_ac7b9f87-f3cb-4954-8e44-dfa46b6f99f0.jpg?v=1763775654"},{"product_id":"near-saltillo-mexico-1933","title":"Paul Strand: Near Saltillo, Mexico, 1933","description":"The first edition of \u003cem\u003ePhotographs of Mexico\u003c\/em\u003e, a portfolio of twenty hand-pulled gravure prints by Paul Strand, sold out long ago. A second edition was published as \u003cem\u003eThe Mexican Portfolio\u003c\/em\u003e in 1967. This current edition of \u003cem\u003eNear Saltillo\u003c\/em\u003e is one of six hand-pulled dust-grain photogravures printed by master photogravure printer Jon Goodman and available as an individual image from the portfolio.","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514079940742,"sku":"L0071","price":420.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-L0071-1_3421f85c-6202-4f5a-a549-b9c64a68ad65.jpg?v=1763775673"},{"product_id":"american-house-ghost-town-colorado-1931","title":"Paul Strand: American House, Ghost Town, Colorado, 1931","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis hand-pulled dust-grain photogravure is printed by master photogravure printer Jon Goodman and bears the authorizing seal of the Paul Strand Archive. The print is accompanied by an original text by Anthony Montoya, director of the Paul Strand Archive, and is sold in an archival paper folder.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514080071814,"sku":"L0086","price":350.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/l0086.jpg?v=1772468837"},{"product_id":"church-ranchos-de-taos-new-mexico-1932","title":"Paul Strand: Church, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, 1932","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis hand-pulled dust-grain photogravure is printed by master photogravure printer Jon Goodman and bears the authorizing seal of the Paul Strand Archive. The print is accompanied by an original text by Anthony Montoya, director of the Paul Strand Archive, and is sold in an archival paper folder.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514080137350,"sku":"L0087","price":350.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/l0087.jpg?v=1772468347"},{"product_id":"wire-wheel-new-york-1920","title":"Paul Strand: Wire Wheel, New York, 1917","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the early years of his formidable career, Paul Strand was befriended and mentored by Alfred Stieglitz. A fierce proponent of modern art in America, Stieglitz’s infamous 291 Gallery on Fifth Avenue was the first to champion the avant-garde of European and American art and photography. His stewardship of Strand had a profound effect, cultivating in Strand one of the greatest modernist photographers of the era. Starting early in the twentieth century Strand experimented with photography and made abstract studies. He sought to invent form through photography rather than imitating it. In this masterpiece, taken from the artist's abstraction series, it is clear that he was influenced by Cubism and the industrial age as he hones in on a detail of a car from an artistic perspective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis platinum-palladium print was made at Paul Strand’s direction from his original negative by master printer Richard Benson. The print is sold in a clamshell case and matted in four-ply, museum-quality mat board.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514080825478,"sku":"L0211","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/l0211.jpg?v=1772388351"},{"product_id":"aartswoud-a-g-s-v-kwiek-1-0-1995","title":"Hans van der Meer: Aartswoud; A.G.S.V.—Kwiek; 1—0, 1995","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Football is a part of our culture and football fields form part of our landscape. There are proportionately more grounds in Holland than in any other country in the world.”—Hans van der Meer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn conjunction with the exhibition, \u003cem\u003eNature as Artifice: New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art\u003c\/em\u003e, at Aperture Gallery and coinciding with the four-hundredth anniversary of the arrival of Henry Hudson to New York Harbor aboard the Dutch vessel \u003cem\u003eHalve Maen\u003c\/em\u003e, Aperture is pleased to offer this special limited-edition photograph by Hans van der Meer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAartswoud\u003c\/em\u003e is from Van der Meer’s well-known and highly collected \u003cem\u003eDutch Fields\u003c\/em\u003e series; it is also the cover image for his book \u003cem\u003eHollandse Velden\u003c\/em\u003e, which was highlighted in Gerry Badger and Martin Parr’s \u003cem\u003eThe Photobook: A History, Volume 1\u003c\/em\u003e. Much of van der Meer’s work deals with the observation and exploration of urban space and landscape in projects focusing on urban development in The Netherlands. In Dutch Fields, the artist made photographs of low-division amateur football games, looking for football in its original form as it was played more than a hundred years ago: on a piece of land, with twenty-two players, and without spectators. The artist focused on fields that “popped up” in the landscape more or less spontaneously and where the importance of football was palpable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514081251462,"sku":"L0180","price":525.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-L0180-1_0972dac6-7e7b-4411-b001-20df8533d6c7.jpg?v=1763775733"},{"product_id":"photography-changes-everything","title":"Photography Changes Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotography Changes Everything \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a provocative rethinking of photography's impact on our culture and our daily lives. Compiling hundreds of images and responses from leading authorities on photography, it offers a brilliant, reader-friendly exploration of the many ways in which photographs package information and values, demand and hold attention, and shape our knowledge of and experience in the world. The volume draws on the extraordinary visual assets of the Smithsonian Institution's museums, science centers and archives to launch an unprecedented interdisciplinary dialogue on photography's capacity to shape and change our experience of the world.\u003cem\u003ePhotography Changes Everything\u003c\/em\u003efeatures over 300 images and nearly 100 engaging short texts commissioned from experts, writers, inventors, public figures and others—from Hugh Hefner to John Baldessari, John Waters, Robert Adams, Sandra Phillips and many others. Each story responds to images selected by project contributors. Together they engage readers in a timely exploration of the extent to which our lives have been transformed through our interactions with photographic imagery. Edited by leading photography curator and author Marvin Heiferman,\u003cem\u003ePhotography Changes Everything\u003c\/em\u003eprovides a unique opportunity to better understand the history, practice and power of photography at this transitional moment in visual culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCopublished by Aperture and the Smithsonian Institution\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514089050246,"sku":"11997","price":19.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-11997-1_ba926cbe-f4d9-42dd-9b96-7e2392226779.jpg?v=1763691740"},{"product_id":"golden-gate-folio","title":"Richard Misrach: Golden Gate Folio","description":"\u003cp\u003eAperture is pleased to release this very special limited-edition photograph by renowned artist Richard Misrach. This photograph, from Misrach’s acclaimed Golden Gate series, is presented in a cloth folio case. In 1997 the artist began a three-year project photographing the Golden Gate Bridge at all times of day and night, in every season, from a single vantage point on his front porch. Within this simple framework, in which the subject and its framing remain fixed in every photograph, alchemy occurs. An astonishing range of atmosphere, light, and color unfold, bringing fresh revelation and interpretation to a familiar view—a unique and beautiful photographic meditation on place and time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis special edition features the image titled \u003cem\u003e10.21.00 6:49 PM (SMOKE), \u003c\/em\u003ea beautiful evening capture of this iconic American structure. This limited-edition folio was released to coincide with the publication of \u003cem\u003eGolden Gate, \u003c\/em\u003ea reissue of this work in a deluxe oversized album, featuring forty of the finest photographs from the series on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of one of the most lasting symbols of American progress and ingenuity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514095505542,"sku":"L0595","price":3150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-L0595-1_559d22d7-e9d2-47e9-bd17-4d9f30a416bd.jpg?v=1763775973"},{"product_id":"untitled-film-noir-1434","title":"Bill Armstrong: Untitled (Film Noir #1434)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis photograph is from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFilm Noir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the newest iteration of Armstrong’s Infinity series, an ongoing project he has worked on for more than fifteen years. The work revisits the classic film-noir themes of loneliness, alienation, and the existentialist dilemma with the lush, saturated colors the artist is known for. The solitary figures are contemplating the unknown reference the ethical and philosophical dilemmas laid out in the stories and films of the 1940s and 50s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs Armstrong notes in an interview about this series, “I’m always trying to bite into the big themes: death, love, redemption, freedom, spirituality. I don’t have the exact quote, but artist Jack Pierson once said something like, ‘If it’s not about lonely, it’s not art.’ Even though that’s apocryphal, I think the fact that we are alone is a major theme today, as much as faith and hope were in the Renaissance, or mortality was to the Romans. In a way, I see all these themes as asking the same question. What is the meaning of it all? Does it matter what we do?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo make these works, Armstrong photographs handmade collages of printed source material with his camera’s focus ring set to infinity. He continues: “In many ways, my work is about perception, how we try to resolve images but can’t, and how in that moment of confusion, when we are unsure of what we are seeing, the rational mind is derailed, and we are freed to respond on a more subconscious level.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514097700998,"sku":"L0634","price":840.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/l0634.jpg?v=1772335073"},{"product_id":"she-said-from-the-series-roquette-rockers-1975","title":"Ken Pate: She said…, from the series Roquette Rockers, 1975","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnder the theme of “Photography as you don’t know it,” the Pictures section in the Winter 2013 issue of \u003cem\u003eAperture\u003c\/em\u003e magazine presents the work of ten photographers who have been overlooked and undervalued. The curators, historians, writers, and publishers who introduce these photographers give various reasons why they have been insufficiently acknowledged: geography, gender, illness, politics, debates about photographic style or representation, lack of self-promotional savvy, or simply fading from the limelight. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong these photographers is Ken Pate. “For me, his pictures still evoke a sharp pleasure, a feeling that is now mixed with a stab of intense nostalgia,” says Carole Naggar, poet, photography historian, and painter. In 1975, American photographer Pate lived in Paris, photographing ballet and theater to pay the bills. Then he met three blousons noirs—members of a rock ‘n’ roll and motorcycle-obsessed subculture—who agreed to let him photograph them. For several weeks, Pate trailed the gang with a camera. The results were collected in Pate’s first and only book \u003cem\u003eRoquette Rockers\u003c\/em\u003e, put out by Paris book and magazine publisher Contrejour. The Rockers in Pate’s photographs are decked out in studs and black leather, their hair slicked back as they straddle their motorcycles. Pate’s intimate photograph \u003cem\u003eShe said…\u003c\/em\u003e, 1975, reveals a softer side of the \u003cem\u003eblousons noirs\u003c\/em\u003e. As Naggar writes, “The Rockers want to look tough, but their youth and naiveté shine through.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514099372166,"sku":"LM001","price":700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-LM001-1_30ea5cce-4822-427a-ac76-93eddf2d9026.jpg?v=1763776041"},{"product_id":"question-bridge-black-males-in-america","title":"Question Bridge: Black Males in America","description":"\u003cp\u003eCopublished by Aperture and the Campaign for Black Male Achievement\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514107728006,"sku":"13359","price":14.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-13359-1_86890227-c7e8-43b8-8398-117d43cd53ba.jpg?v=1763692038"},{"product_id":"paeonia-2015","title":"Hellen van Meene: Paeonia, 2015","description":"\u003cp\u003eAperture is pleased to release a limited-edition photograph by Dutch artist Hellen van Meene, in conjunction with the publication of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/aperture.org\/books\/the-years-shall-run-like-rabbits\/\"\u003eThe Years Shall Run Like Rabbits\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work to date.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the leading Dutch photographers of her generation, Van Meene is well-known for her portraits of boys and girls on the cusp of adulthood. Characterized by her exquisite use of light, formal elegance, and palpable psychological tension, her depictions demonstrate a clear aesthetic lineage to seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Carefully posing her subjects in their environments, Van Meene captures the intimacy of the photographer–subject relationship, emphasizing their fragility and photographing them at their most introspective moments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaeonia\u003c\/em\u003e, 2015, is part of a recent series in which Van Meene depicts girls’ faces covered entirely by curtains of sleek hair brushed forward to conceal any expression or facial identification. In contrast to earlier works, where the details of bodies and faces are laid bare, here our gaze is denied. The combination of Van Meene’s instinctive understanding of the universality of adolescent experience and the highly intimate collaborations between the photographer and her models makes for powerful portraits that resonate long after viewing. \u003cem\u003eThe Years Shall Run Like Rabbits\u003c\/em\u003e was the subject of a major exhibition at The Hague Museum of Photography in August 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514108645510,"sku":"LB113","price":1102.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-LB113-1_0fc5a644-3402-4be7-a769-531bd97b599b.jpg?v=1763776138"},{"product_id":"ewokom-masquerade-eshinjok-village-nigeria-2004","title":"Phyllis Galembo: Ewokom Masquerade, Eshinjok Village, Nigeria, 2004","description":"\u003cp\u003eAperture is pleased to release a special limited-edition photograph by Phyllis Galembo on the occasion of the reissue of her Aperture publication \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/aperture.org\/books\/maske-2\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaske\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGalembo has photographed cultural and religious traditions in Africa and the African Diaspora for over two decades. Traveling widely throughout western and central Africa and regularly to Haiti, Galembo photographs participants in masquerade events—traditional African ceremonies and contemporary costume parties and carnivals—who use costumes, body paint, and masks to create mythic characters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGalembo made this image in the Eshinjok Village in Nigeria, “where the costume traditions and dance societies within individual villages vary widely. Some troupes wear bright crocheted costumes rich with symbols evoking spiritual powers. They perform on commission, appearing at ceremonies and celebrations such as funerals, coronations, and weddings. While the masked performers are always male, they represent both the male and female spirits.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e Setting up an outdoor studio, Galembo would wait for the masqueraders, who would show up in twos or threes, often accompanied by attendants, children, and other onlookers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514111627398,"sku":"LB041","price":840.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-LB041-1_ac67af55-a307-4277-bba5-ad38495775da.jpg?v=1763776217"},{"product_id":"film-noir-1438","title":"Bill Armstrong: Film Noir #1438","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFilm Noir\u003c\/em\u003e revisits the themes of the classic black-and-white films of the 40s and 50s, but with the lush, saturated colors for which Bill Armstrong is known. Armstrong’s mysterious images remain unresolved, yet hinting at the increased uncertainties of the contemporary viewpoint.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike his other portfolios, in his \u003cem\u003eInfinity\u003c\/em\u003e series, the photographs are made from appropriated images taken from a variety of sources—advertising, stock photographs, and landscape painting—which are then collaged and rephotographed out of focus as Armstrong subverts the photographic process, setting his lens at infinity (normally used for distance) and then shooting close up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514113396870,"sku":"L0769","price":595.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-L0769-1_a0c247ba-11aa-4f87-b700-08a7d24cf46b.jpg?v=1763776241"},{"product_id":"hug-palacio-de-los-patos-out-my-window-2016","title":"Gail Albert Halaban: Hug, Palacio de Los Patos Out My Window, 2016","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her decade-long photography project \u003cem\u003eOut My Window\u003c\/em\u003e, Gail Albert Halaban has photographed what neighbors see through their windows in cities around the world. The photographs are made from one residence looking into the window of another with the consent of both parties. Both sides of the view meet through the making of the photograph, so that the process of making the work connects neighbor to neighbor, creating community against the loneliness of the city.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHalaban states: “though initially, my work seems voyeuristic, above all this project is about my desire to connect with my subjects and their desire to connect with their neighbors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe windows are both a boundary and a gateway, connecting viewer and viewed. Significantly, I work not from the street or the air but from the window across the way: when you look at my pictures, you stand in the neighbor’s shoes. Connecting neighbors, strengthening community lies at the heart of all of my work. Deeply seated in the artistic layers, beneath the play of light and form, lies human connectivity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI begin by meeting with my subjects and then helping them meet their neighbors. Meeting a neighbor is not without risks. The city demands that we trade off privacy for a community that, once joined, surrounds us always. I find reason for hope in people’s desire to take that risk, to connect with one another and interact explicitly.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe photograph here is from Palacio de Los Patos in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Built in the 1920s, it was modeled after a French apartment building. Halaban decided to explore Buenos Aires after her \u003ci\u003eParis Views\u003c\/i\u003e project (Aperture, 2014) since it is known as the Paris of South America. This photograph is the view out her own window where she stayed in Buenos Aires.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514113495174,"sku":"L0770","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-L0770-1_4ad37fac-38e3-4975-8fa8-eba0fd1e9754.jpg?v=1763776244"},{"product_id":"the-many-lives-of-erik-kessels-hardcover","title":"The Many Lives of Erik Kessels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Many Lives of Erik Kessels\u003c\/i\u003e presents the highly anticipated first illustrated survey of this pioneering and influential curator, editor, and artist whose varied experiments with photography and photographic archives have allowed us to reconsider the medium’s vernacular and narrative possibilities in today’s inundated image landscape. \u003cq\u003ePeople consume photographs,\u003c\/q\u003e says Kessels, \u003cq\u003ethey don’t look at them anymore.\u003c\/q\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume is a primer on how to look—and how to better understand the hybrid practice of this artist who defies categorization. Including more than twenty of the artist’s series and features essays by Simon Baker, Hans Aarsman, and curator Francesco Zanot, \u003ci\u003eThe Many Lives of Erik Kessels\u003c\/i\u003e is published in conjunction with a major midcareer retrospective at CAMERA–Centro Italiano per la Fotografia in Turin, Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514114347142,"sku":"14165","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/51841s.jpg?v=1779459472"},{"product_id":"this-is-mars-midi-edition","title":"This Is Mars: Midi Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Is Mars\u003c\/i\u003e offers a thrilling visual experience of the surface of the red planet. The multi-award-winning French editor and designer Xavier Barral has chosen and composed photographic frames, drawn from the comprehensive photographic map of Mars made by the U.S. observation satellite MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter), to revel in the wonder of Mars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat Yann Arthus-Bertrand did with a light aircraft for \u003ci\u003eThe Earth from the Air\u003c\/i\u003e, Barral does for Mars—by scouring tens of thousands of gigabytes of satellite photographs available from NASA, seeking out the most distinct images of the planet’s surface. The result is visionary—a great science book, a unique artist’s book, and a stunning object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs are accompanied by an introduction from research scientist Alfred S. McEwen, principle investigator of the HiRISE telescope; an essay by astrophysicist Francis Rocard, who explains the story of Mars’s origins and its evolution; and a timeline by geophysicist Nicolas Mangold, who demystifies some of Mars’s geological history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow available as a mid-sized, accessibly priced edition, \u003ci\u003eThis Is Mars\u003c\/i\u003e will excite lovers of great photobooks, and everyone curious about the universe and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514114936966,"sku":"14158","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/this-is-mars-aperture-covercopy.jpg?v=1778596754"},{"product_id":"susan-meiselas-on-the-frontline-2","title":"Susan Meiselas: On the Frontline","description":"\u003cp\u003eApplying a sociological training to the practice of witness journalism, she compares her process to that of an archaeologist, piecing together shards of evidence to build a three-dimensional cultural understanding of her subjects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeiselas achieved worldwide recognition for her photographic coverage of the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1979—first published in 1981 and now regarded as a seminal work of journalism—which followed her exploration of the experience of women on the carnival entertainment circuit, \u003ci\u003eCarnival Strippers\u003c\/i\u003e (1976). She went on to spend five years exploring and creating a new visual history of the Kurdish people, published as \u003ci\u003eKurdistan: In the Shadow of History\u003c\/i\u003e (1997). In \u003ci\u003eOn the Frontline\u003c\/i\u003e, she guides us through the thinking behind each, and many other projects besides, as well as her influential involvement in Magnum Photos as one of its earliest women members. One of the greatest contributors to the evolution of documentary storytelling, Meiselas here offers a compelling insight into her journey as a photographer and thinker.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514116608134,"sku":"14271","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/51056s-1.jpg?v=1772480613"},{"product_id":"john-chiara-california","title":"John Chiara: California","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Chiara creates his own cameras and chemical processes in order to make unique photographs using the direct exposure of light onto reversal film and paper. Chiara describes his process: “When I’m out shooting, I directly expose the paper, dodge, burn, and filter the light as if I were working in the darkroom.” This compression of the traditional photographic processes into one event, involving the hauling around of huge, handmade cameras and film backs, results in images that are intuitive and performative—and visually stunning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFocusing almost exclusively on landscapes and architecture, each resulting photograph is a singular, luminous object that renders each scene with an almost hallucinatory clarity, deploying surreal shifts of color, light, and skewed perspectives. This book, his first, focuses exclusively on images of Chiara’s native California, including images from his hometown of San Francisco and other locations in Northern California, as well as Los Angeles and along the Pacific Coast. Virginia Heckert’s essay situates Chiara’s work in the long tradition of the landscape of the American West while also discussing his working methods and the contemporary context of this process-driven work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCopublished by Aperture and Pier 24 Photography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514116706438,"sku":"14233","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/john-chiara-california-cover.jpg?v=1772658559"},{"product_id":"imabari-support-2016","title":"Charlotte Dumas: Imabari, Support, 2016","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn November 2014, photographer Charlotte Dumas began a project portraying the eight native horse breeds of Japan. Some exist in such low numbers that their future is uncertain. Many are confined to small islands, so have never been able to migrate. Each image says something about the breed’s geographical origin and the people who share its territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe series is, says the artist, a “natural evolution from several preceding series dealing with working horses: polices horses in Rome, racehorses in Paris and Palermo, and the horses of Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia and the wild horse of Nevada.” Through meeting a British horse Logger who was on his way to Japan to teach a course in horse logging, Dumas was able to connect with a preservationist at the Afan Woodland Trust in Nagano, where the Kiso horse is native. After extensive research of the eight native breeds, the idea of photographing them in their natural environments took form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDumas says of her work, “The notion that the state of humanity can be read and studied by the way we relate to animals is a vital thread in my work. My choice of subject relates directly to the way we use, co-exist with, and define specific animals, assigning various symbolisms to them as well as our own personal reflections.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInformed by what she calls the “traditional ingredients” of 17th-century Dutch painting, Dumas approaches her work exquisitely attuned to composition, light, and the poses of classical portraiture. By shooting these animals at a range that allows intimacy without invasiveness, Dumas effectively humanizes them, their faces and bodies express an uncanny psychological depth, which seems both innate and ascribed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514116771974,"sku":"L0797","price":560.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-L0797-1_45dc2841-ab48-4a7d-a771-fcd2db05e917.jpg?v=1763776347"},{"product_id":"aperture-conversations-1985-to-the-present-paperback","title":"Aperture Conversations","description":"Why did Henri Cartier-Bresson nearly have a posthumous exhibition while still alive? What led Stephen Shore to work with color? Why was Sophie Calle accused of stealing Vermeer’s \u003ci\u003eThe Concert\u003c\/i\u003e? And what is Susan Meiselas’s take on Instagram and the future of online storytelling? \n\n\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAperture Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e presents a selection of interviews highlighting critical dialogue between photographers, esteemed critics, curators, editors, and artists from 1985 to the present day. Emerging talent along with well-established photographers discuss their work openly and examine the future of the medium. Drawn primarily from \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e magazine with selections from Aperture’s booklist and online platform, \u003ci\u003eAperture Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the artist’s voice, collaborations, and the photography community at large.","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514119753862,"sku":"13069","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-13069-1_46175c67-9ef4-4dac-a209-912fe9866f93.jpg?v=1763692165"},{"product_id":"picnic-table-with-hail-stones-colorado-springs-co-1980","title":"Sam Abell: Picnic Table, with Hail Stones, Colorado Springs, CO, 1980","description":"\u003cp\u003e“I’m not a gardener or even a garden photographer. I’m a traveler who visits gardens for solace and visual inspiration. That means I seek from gardens what I seek from life itself—visually layered scenes that hold the possibility for meaningful photographic moments.”—Sam Abell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom famous locations to the simplest home vegetable garden, from worlds imagined by artists to vintage family snapshots, \u003cem\u003eThe Photographer in the Garden\u003c\/em\u003e traces the garden’s rich history in photography and delights readers with spectacular images. Picture commentaries by Sarah Anne McNear and an informative essay from curator Jamie M. Allen broaden our understanding of photography and how it has been used to record the glory of the garden. The book features photographers from all eras, including Anna Atkins, Karl Blossfeldt, Eugène Atget, Edward Steichen, Imogen Cunningham, Stephen Shore, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nobuyoshi Araki, and Collier Schorr. This sublime and beautiful book brings together some of the most stunning photography in the history of the medium.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514120573062,"sku":"LB056","price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-LB056-1_582ac65e-fa8d-4441-b8aa-7224e0fde57f.jpg?v=1763776403"},{"product_id":"seeing-science-how-photography-reveals-the-universe","title":"Seeing Science","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeeing Science\u003c\/i\u003e offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection of essays and pictures about photography’s role in visualizing science and building human knowledge—from micro to macro levels and everything in between.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhotography and science have long been intertwined, helping to shape the way we look at the world. Scientists use photography as a way to gather information, explore, and learn, but just as important, photography is also used to promote scientific advances and has long served as an interface between the sciences and the public. Our understanding of outer space depends on images sent to Earth from the Hubble Space Telescope, just as our understanding of our own bodies depends on X-rays. Images make visible what lies beyond human perception.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScience is less an edifice of facts than a process of discovery and inquiry. In this way, it is not dissimilar to art; artists have engaged with some of the same scientific principles, using photography to imagine the world differently and present us with new experiences and ways of seeing. This volume presents both perspectives exploring how science is made perceptible, featuring over three hundred images and sixty short texts. Together they engage readers in a timely exploration of the extent to which our knowledge is formed and transformed through our interactions with photographic imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514131222662,"sku":"14479","price":19.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-14479-1_421c0b4b-a0b1-4a82-b3e8-93be69b1b2fd.jpg?v=1763692382"},{"product_id":"untitled-casil-2015-18","title":"Collier Schorr: Untitled (Casil), 2015–18","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtist and fashion photographer Collier Schorr has long been interested in how a body changes. For several years, she followed a model named Casil McArthur, who transitions over the course of Schorr’s project \u003cem\u003eUntitled (Casil)\u003c\/em\u003e from boyish girl to girlish boy, from artist’s muse to Bowie-like chameleon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSchorr remembers meeting Casil just as Casil had begun to start modeling as a young man rather than as a young woman. When Casil first began to transition, he worried about his future as a model. But the partnership with Schorr was perfectly legible within the fashion world, with fashions moving away from his\/her clothing and toward the concept of they\/them. Schorr explains that Casil’s fantasmatic appeal may have changed as he transitioned, but the mystery and the enigmatic quality that a model must project remained constant. The images are playful at times, melancholic at others, crossing and blurring lines as Schorr’s photo-archive offers a slow reveal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514131714182,"sku":"L0995","price":1050.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-L0995-1_e7de21d3-5f30-4b00-ba93-ed4856dac3bf.jpg?v=1763776453"},{"product_id":"joel-meyerowitz-provincetown-print-set","title":"Joel Meyerowitz: Provincetown Print Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCollect all three \u003cem\u003eProvincetown\u003c\/em\u003e prints at a special price!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“[For those of us] who find our way here—travelers, artists, writers, playwrights, actors, poets, straight, gay, lesbian, gender-nonconforming, black, white, foreign, anyone who wants to move from the urban pressures to the spacious and spiritual beauty of the Outer Cape—Provincetown is where your identity and sense of ‘home’ come to the ground.”—Joel Meyerowitz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe beach town of Provincetown, Massachusetts, has long been defined by outsiders—a haven for the queer community and a getaway for artists, a place of openness and tolerance. Throughout the 1970s and the early ’80s, Joel Meyerowitz spent his summers there, roaming the seaside with an 8-by-10 camera, making exquisite, sharply observed portraits of denizens of the progressive community—families, couples, children, artists, and others. In Meyerowitz’s photographs, a cast of characters appears and reappears from season to season against the picturesque backdrop of sea, sand, and sun. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/aperture.org\/books\/provincetown\/?post_type=product\u0026amp;p=15268\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eProvincetown\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e collects these portraits, most never before published, bringing viewers into an idyllic world of self-styled individualism. By a master of the medium, this body of work is a visual time capsule of a storied LGBTQ community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAperture is pleased to work with the artist and bring three wonderful limited-edition prints to our audience of collectors, all of which appear in the monograph. The proceeds from these prints help to support the publication in addition to supporting the artist and helping to underwrite Aperture’s publishing and public programs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514132172934,"sku":"LS0003","price":3780.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-LS0003-1_9f5110c9-b14b-413b-aa12-ce7629cd1661.jpg?v=1763776472"},{"product_id":"through-positive-eyes","title":"Through Positive Eyes","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThrough Positive Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e is a collaborative photo-storytelling project by 130 people living with HIV and AIDS around the world.\u003c\/b\u003e All have participated in workshops led by South African photographer Gideon Mendel, with photo educator Crispin Hughes, and David Gere, director of the Art \u0026amp; Global Health Center at the University of California—Los Angeles (UCLA). The project chronicles a very particular moment in the epidemic, when effective treatment is available to some, not all, and when the enduring stigma associated with HIV and AIDS has become entrenched, a major roadblock to both prevention and treatment. The participants in the project have volunteered to tell their stories, in words and in photographs, empowering themselves in order to banish stigma.","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514132500614,"sku":"14769","price":14.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/through-positive-eyes-aperture-covercopy.jpg?v=1778596824"},{"product_id":"to-make-their-own-way-in-the-world-the-enduring-legacy-of-the-zealy-daguerreotypes","title":"To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhotographed by Joseph T. Zealy for Harvard professor Louis Agassiz in 1850, they were rediscovered at Harvard’s Peabody Museum in 1976. This groundbreaking multidisciplinary volume features essays by prominent scholars who explore such topics as the identities of the people depicted in the daguerreotypes, the close relationship between photography and race, and visual narratives of slavery and its lasting effects. With over two hundred illustrations, including new photography by Carrie Mae Weems, this book frames the Zealy daguerreotypes as works of urgent engagement. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCopublished by Aperture and Peabody Museum Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514133450886,"sku":"14783","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/zealy-daguerreotypes-aperture-covercopy.jpg?v=1778596583"},{"product_id":"photo-no-nos-meditations-on-what-not-to-photograph","title":"Photo No-Nos: Meditations on What Not to Photograph","description":"\u003cb\u003eAt turns humorous and absurd, heartfelt and searching, \u003ci\u003ePhoto No-Nos\u003c\/i\u003e is for photographers of all levels wishing to avoid easy metaphors and to sharpen their visual communication skills.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\n\nPhotographers often have unwritten lists of subjects they tell themselves not to shoot—things that are cliché, exploitative, derivative, sometimes even arbitrary. \u003ci\u003ePhoto No-Nos\u003c\/i\u003e features ideas, stories, and anecdotes from many of the world’s most talented photographers and photography professionals, along with an encyclopedic list of more than a thousand taboo subjects compiled from and with pictures by contributors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\n\nNot a strict guide, but a series of meditations on “bad” pictures, \u003ci\u003ePhoto No-Nos\u003c\/i\u003e covers a wide range of topics, from sunsets and roses to issues of colonialism, stereotypes, and social responsibility. At a time when societies are reckoning with what and how to communicate through media and who has the right to do so, this book is a timely and thoughtful resource on what photographers consider to be off-limits, and how they have contended with their own self-imposed rules without being paralyzed by them.","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514136825990,"sku":"14998","price":12.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-14998-1_ca5afbc4-1365-423f-b5e7-d94158eb5dd7.jpg?v=1763692549"},{"product_id":"let-the-sun-beheaded-be-limited-edition","title":"Gregory Halpern: Let the Sun Beheaded Be (Limited-Edition Box Set)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLet the Sun Beheaded Be\u003c\/em\u003e, Gregory Halpern focuses on the Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe, an overseas region of France with a complicated and violent colonial past. The work resonates with Halpern’s characteristic attention to the ways the details of a landscape and the people who inhabit it often reveal the undercurrents of local histories and experiences. \u003cem\u003eLet the Sun Beheaded Be\u003c\/em\u003e offers a visually striking depiction of place—as it has been worked on by the forces of nature, people, and events—as well as a thoughtful engagement with the complexities of photographing in foreign lands as an interloper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collectible set includes a signed, limited-edition printing of \u003cem\u003eLet the Sun Beheaded Be\u003c\/em\u003e with a special silver-foil-stamped cover encased in a clamshell box. It is accompanied by a signed and numbered 8-by-10-inch digital c-print. This box set is limited to an edition of seventy and has been produced with the goal of supporting two nonprofit organizations; the artist’s proceeds will be donated in their entirety, shared equally between Locust Street Art in Buffalo, New York, and the Pan American Health Organization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLet the Sun Beheaded Be\u003c\/em\u003e was produced as part of Immersion, a program of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, in partnership with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514138005638,"sku":"LB140","price":490.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-LB140-1_3893ed62-d3da-4e3b-ab95-c8b510115d21.jpg?v=1763776502"},{"product_id":"80-and-82-beekman-street-1967","title":"Danny Lyon: 80 and 82 Beekman Street, 1967","description":"\u003cp\u003eAperture is pleased to offer a very special limited-edition print with Danny Lyon on the occasion of the publication of the facsimile of \u003ci\u003eThe Destruction of Lower Manhattan,\u003c\/i\u003e in partnership with Fundación ICO. In addition to supporting the artist, proceeds from the sale of this special print help to make this publication possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1969, \u003ci\u003eThe Destruction of Lower Manhattan\u003c\/i\u003e is a singular, lasting document of nearly sixty acres of downtown New York architecture before its destruction in a wave of urban development.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter creating the series The Bikeriders and moving back to New York in 1966, Lyon settled into a downtown loft, becoming one of the few artists to document the dramatic changes taking place. Lyon writes, “Whole blocks would disappear. An entire neighborhood. Its last few loft-occupying tenants were being evicted, and no place like it would ever be built again.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough his striking photographs and accompanying texts, Lyon paints a portrait of the people who lived there, of rooms with abandoned furniture, children’s paintings, empty stairwells. Intermingled within the architecture are portraits of individuals and the demolition workers who, despite their assigned task, emerge as the surviving heroes. Danny Lyon’s documentation of doomed facades, empty interiors, work crews, and remaining dwellers still appeals to our emotions more than fifty years later, and Aperture’s reissue retains the power of the original.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514139906182,"sku":"LB142","price":2100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-LB142-1_00278923-da87-4617-8159-e97c88bd49f5.jpg?v=1763776518"},{"product_id":"barry-mcgee-reproduction","title":"Barry McGee: Reproduction","description":"\u003cp\u003eThough best known for the inventive graphic sensibility of his paintings, drawings, and installations, Barry McGee’s use of photography is an essential component of his artistic vision. Captured at all hours and around the world with whatever camera is at hand, McGee’s images are immediate, casual, intimate, and anarchic all at once. His work boldly employs geometric shapes, clusters of framed drawings and paintings, distinctive characters, and found objects such as empty bottles, surfboards, and wrecked vehicles. Whether incorporated into his iconic multi-element compositions, or printed in the innumerable fanzines and artist’s books that often accompany his exhibitions, photographs pervade McGee’s practice. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarry McGee: Reproduction\u003c\/i\u003e provides unique insight into the process of a major American artist, and is a testament to the immense amount of visual information McGee has absorbed to build one of the most eclectic and innovative artistic legacies of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514140528774,"sku":"15162","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/barry-mcgee-reproduction-aperture-covercopy.jpg?v=1778596330"},{"product_id":"gregory-crewdson-alone-street","title":"Gregory Crewdson: Alone Street","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlone Street\u003c\/i\u003e brings together two major bodies of work by Gregory Crewdson, \u003ci\u003eCathedral of the Pines\u003c\/i\u003e (Aperture, 2016) and \u003ci\u003eAn Eclipse of Moths\u003c\/i\u003e (Aperture, 2020), in a single, elegant, and affordable monograph.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth series expand on the artist’s obsessive exploration of the psychogeography of small-town, post-industrial New England and underscore the precision and depth of Crewdson’s unique mode of photographic storytelling. In each image, light, color, and carefully crafted scenography evoke the feeling that, as art historian Alexander Nemerov has astutely described, “all that ever happened in these places seems crystallized in his tableaux, as if the quiet melancholy of Crewdson’s scenes gathered the unruly sorrows and other little-guessed feelings of people long-gone who once stood on those spots.” In addition to the full set of images from each series, \u003ci\u003eAlone Street\u003c\/i\u003e, presents a selection of behind-the-scenes images and storyboards, revealing the extensive preparation and planning that went into the making of each work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514140758150,"sku":"15131","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/gregory-crewdson-alone-street-aperture-covercopy.jpg?v=1773412829"},{"product_id":"zora-j-murff-true-colors-or-affirmations-in-a-crisis","title":"Zora J Murff: True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMurff constructs a manual for coming to terms with the historical and contemporary realities of America’s divisive structures of privilege and caste. Since leaving social work to pursue photography over a decade ago, Murff’s work has consistently grappled with the complicit entanglement of the medium in the histories of spectacle, commodification, and race, often contextualizing his own photographs with found and appropriated images and commissioned texts. \u003ci\u003eTrue Colors\u003c\/i\u003e continues that work, expanding to address the act of remembering and the politics of self, which Murff identifies as “the duality of Black patriotism and the challenges of finding belonging in places not made for me—of creating an affirmation in a moment of crisis as I learn to remake myself in my own image.” Nuanced, challenging, and inspiring, \u003ci\u003eTrue Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis)\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-have monograph by a rising and standout artist. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrue Colors\u003c\/i\u003e is the result of the inaugural Next Step Award, a partnership between Aperture and Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, with the generous support of 7G Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514140823686,"sku":"15179","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-15179-1_43bfd66b-c9c5-43c1-a571-a8a0c5ad891f.jpg?v=1763692679"},{"product_id":"object-lesson-on-the-influence-of-richard-benson","title":"Object Lesson: On the Influence of Richard Benson","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom making platinum prints for Paul Strand and books with Lee Friedlander to his own experiments with inkjet and digital offset processes, and as a teacher and dean of the Yale School of Art, by the time of his death in 2017, Richard Benson had inspired over three decades of students and artisans through his mentorship and work. In words and images, \u003ci\u003eObject Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e stands as a testament to Benson’s wit, wisdom, and incomparable obsession with how photographic images render and connect us to the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eText, image, and interview contributions by Michele Abeles, Marion Belanger, Barbara Benson, Richard Benson, Dawoud Bey, Andrew Borowiec, Lois Conner, Matthew Connors, Tim Davis, Benjamin Donaldson, Dru Donovan, Martina Droth, Shannon Ebner, Lucas Foglia, Peter Galassi, John Gambell, Jon Goodman, Bryan Graf, Gail Albert Halaban, Gary Haller, Heyward Hart, Robert J. Hennessey, Peter Kayafas, Lisa Kereszi, Justin Kimball, David La Spina, John Lehr, Susan Lipper, Salvatore Lopes, Peter MacGill, Tanya Marcuse, Lesley A. Martin, Miko McGinty, Sue Medlicott, Sarah Meister, Paul Messier, Andrea Modica, Matthew Monteith, Abelardo Morell, Arthur Ou, Thomas Palmer, Tod Papageorge, Ted Partin, Bradley Peters, John Pilson, Kristine Potter, Caitlin Teal Price, Sergio Purtell, Jock Reynolds, John Robinson, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Sasha Rudensky, Gary Schneider, David Benjamin Sherry, Steve Smith, Mark Steinmetz, Sarah Stolfa, Ka-Man Tse, James Welling, and Jeff Whetstone\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514141905030,"sku":"14950","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/object-lesso-richard-benson-n-aperture-covercopy.jpg?v=1778596898"},{"product_id":"shikeith-notes-towards-becoming-a-spill","title":"Shikeith: Notes towards Becoming a Spill","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe artist Shikeith describes this work as “leaning into the uncanny,” visualizing ritual and the process of excavating Black men’s erotic potential, the better to exorcise the “intangible presences that haunt their bodies and psyches.” The men’s faces and bodies glisten with sweat (and tears)—the manifestation and evidence of desire. This ecstasy is what critic Antwaun Sargent proclaims as “an ideal, a warm depiction that insists on concrete possibility for another world.” In this revelatory volume, Shikeith redefines the idea of sacred space and positions a Queer ethic identified by its investment in vulnerability, tenderness, and joy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShikeith: Notes towards Becoming a Spill\u003c\/i\u003e is made possible, in part, thanks to the generous contribution of 7G Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514141970566,"sku":"15230","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/shikeith-aperture-covercopy.jpg?v=1778597149"},{"product_id":"death-valley-california-2012","title":"David Benjamin Sherry: Death Valley, California, 2012","description":"\u003cp\u003eAperture is pleased to release this limited-edition print by David Benjamin Sherry. \u003cem\u003eDeath Valley, California\u003c\/em\u003e, 2012, is part of a more extensive series, \u003cem\u003ePink Genesis\u003c\/em\u003e, comprised of photograms. Without the use of a camera, throughout this captivating suite of images, Sherry ventures closer to photography’s earliest history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“My photograms can be divided into two basic types: precise geometric abstractions and freer, improvisational compositions in which my body appears as subject.”—David Benjamin Sherry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSherry is a magician of the darkroom. Celebrated for his use of vivid color and his skill with traditional analog photographic techniques, he has established himself as a leading voice in contemporary photography. His work has often examined the monumental landscapes of the American West and the environmental challenges the region faces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePink Genesis\u003c\/em\u003e introduces Sherry’s equally intriguing but lesser-known series of striking, large-scale, cameraless color photograms, laboriously made by hand in the darkroom. Using cardboard masks to create mesmerizing geometric forms and incorporating his own body into the images, Sherry actively references histories of photography, as well as artists such as Josef Albers and Robert Rauschenberg, captivating viewers with a fresh way of seeing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe series, inspired by James Bidgood’s 1971 cult film \u003cem\u003ePink Narcissus\u003c\/em\u003e, almost entirely shot within Bidgood’s New York apartment, explores how “a small interior space—specifically, a space of queer imagination—can be a site of fantasy and possibility,” as Lucy Gallun, associate curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, states in her essay for the book. For Sherry, the private, contemplative space of the darkroom serves as a space to think through the intersections of identity, abstraction, and the meditative possibilities of monochrome.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514142658694,"sku":"LB152","price":2100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-LB152-1_1a9bcf6d-a824-4c66-87c5-97ec39a8cf49.jpg?v=1763776567"},{"product_id":"revolution-is-love-a-year-of-black-trans-liberation","title":"Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn June 2020, after a Black trans woman in Missouri and a Black trans man in Florida were killed just weeks apart, activists Qween Jean and Joela Rivera returned to the historic Stonewall Inn—site of the 1969 riots that launched the modern gay rights movement—where they initiated weekly actions known thereafter as the Stonewall Protests. Brought together by the urgent need to center Black trans and queer lives within the Black Lives Matter movement, a vibrant and radical community emerged.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the following year, the Stonewall Protests brought together thousands of people across communities and social movements to gather in solidarity, resistance, and communion. Each Thursday was an invitation for protests, healing, and celebration—whether through marches, voguing balls, or vigil—and a living testament to love in revolution. This book gathers twenty-four photographers who participated in these actions to share images and words on the demonstrations and their community at large, preserving this legacy as it unfolded. Through photographs, interviews, and text, \u003ci\u003eRevolution Is Love\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the power of shared joy and struggle in trans community and liberation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing images and text by Ramie Ahmed, Lucy Baptiste, Budi, Brandon English, Deb Fong, Snake Garcia, Stas Ginzburg, Katie Godowski, Robert Hamada, Chae Kihn, Zak Krevitt, Erica Lansner, Daniel Lehrhaupt, Caroline Mardok, Ryan McGinley, Josh Pacheco, Jarrett Robertson, Phoenix Robles, Souls of a Movement, Madison Swart, Cindy Trinh, Sean Waltrous, Ruvan Wijesooriya, and David Zung.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514143084678,"sku":"15308","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/revolution-is-lovecopy.jpg?v=1777579737"},{"product_id":"tommy-kha-half-full-quarter","title":"Tommy Kha: Half, Full, Quarter","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this first major monograph, featuring almost a decade of work, Tommy Kha explores the highly personal psycho-geography of his hometown. As the artist states, “Memphis has become, for me, not only the place where I was raised but an active borderland between fantasy and memory, nostalgia and history, nonfiction and mythology.” Memphis is where his mother, fleeing Vietnam in the early 1980s, settled, along with his extended family. Throughout the work, his mother emerges as a recurring character, sometimes the subject of quiet photographic study, and in others, a collaborative muse. “I’m a cut of my mom,” Kha asserts, “Every photograph I make of her is a Half Self-Portrait.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn snapshots drawn from a family album that serves as the one record of her journey to the United States, she is the source of nostalgia and barely captured memory. In assembling a visual account of the struggle to find his own voice and narrate the fragmented history of his family, Kha challenges the cultural amnesia around Asian lives and experiences in recent American histories. Acclaimed author Hua Hsu contributes an engaging essay, “People Need to Smile More,” and MacArthur Fellow An-My Lê conducts an incisive conversation with Kha that delves into his family history and artistic strategies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTommy Kha: Half, Full, Quarter\u003c\/i\u003e is the result of the Next Step Award, a partnership between Aperture and Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, in collaboration with the 7|G Foundation. An exhibition of the work was presented at Baxter St in New York in February 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514144624774,"sku":"15438","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-15438-1_109432b8-9f2c-4000-88b9-99959df69b09.jpg?v=1763692836"},{"product_id":"ari-marcopoulos-zines","title":"Ari Marcopoulos: Zines","description":"\u003cp\u003eOften self-published or created in collaboration with boutique and independent publishers like ROMA, Dashwood Books, and PPP Editions, these informal, DIY-aesthetic creations function as sketchbook, diary, installation space, and a means of processing Ari Marcopoulos’s daily practice of photographing his life, his family, his neighborhood, and the rarified cultural milieu in which he operates. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection showcases an impressive array of printed zines, exploring each as an artistic object through an engaging layout. Beginning in 2015 and presented chronologically per year, key zines are featured—including some made during the pandemic, when Marcopoulos worked primarily on the screen, making PDF zines—and punctuated by individual images presented full scale. An interview with Hamza Walker underscores the role of zines as an essential part of Marcopoulos’s artistic practice, emphasizing the personal, diaristic element within the work, while an essay from Maggie Nelson meditates on the work’s position within a wider social and cultural context. \u003ci\u003eAri Marcopoulos: Zines\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-have for anyone interested in this prolific artist’s personal practice and zine culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514157600902,"sku":"15551","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-15551-1_fd714e40-019a-4d3b-9edb-d5737a9d81de.jpg?v=1763692852"},{"product_id":"dawoud-bey-elegy","title":"Dawoud Bey: Elegy","description":"\u003cp\u003eRenowned for his Harlem street scenes and expressive portraits, Dawoud Bey continues his ongoing series on African American history. \u003ci\u003eElegy\u003c\/i\u003e brings together Bey’s three landscape series to date—\u003ci\u003eNight Coming Tenderly, Black \u003c\/i\u003e(2017); \u003ci\u003eIn This Here Place \u003c\/i\u003e(2021); and \u003ci\u003eStony the Road\u003c\/i\u003e (2023)—elucidating the deep historical memory still embedded in the geography of the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBey takes viewers to the historic Richmond Slave Trail in Virginia, where Africans were marched onto auction blocks; to the plantations of Louisiana, where they labored; and along the last stages of the Underground Railroad in Ohio, where fugitives sought self-emancipation. Essays by the exhibition’s curator, Valerie Cassel Oliver, and scholars LeRonn P. Brooks, Imani Perry, and Christina Sharpe illuminate the work. By interweaving these bodies of work into an elegy in three movements, Bey doesn’t merely evoke history, he retells it through historically grounded images that challenge viewers to go beyond seeing and imagine lived experiences. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCopublished by Aperture and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514159140998,"sku":"15643","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/dawoud-bey-elegy-covercopy.jpg?v=1773081815"},{"product_id":"doorway-ll","title":"Kelli Connell: Doorway II, 2015","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAperture is pleased to release a limited-photograph by Kelli Connell on the occasion of the publication \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/aperture.org\/books\/kelli-connell-pictures-for-charis\/\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePictures for Charis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e (2024), copublished by the Center for Creative Photography.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDoorway II\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a work featured on the cover of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePictures for Charis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and part of the series driven by photographer Connell’s fascination with Charis Wilson, the writer and collaborator of Edward Weston, as well as Weston’s partner and model. Connell focuses on the life of Charis Wilson and the time she spent with Weston from 1934 to 1945. Guided by Wilson’s autobiography, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThrough Another Lens: My Life with Edward Weston\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCalifornia and the West\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, a collaborative work by Wilson and Weston, Connell and her partner Betsy Odom traversed diverse California landscapes, working in the places where Wilson and Weston once lived and worked eighty years ago. Wilson wrote extensively about her travels and about her and Weston’s photographic concerns.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFollowing in this regard, Connell tells her own story, one that finds a kinship with Wilson and, to her surprise, Weston, too, as she navigates her own life and struggles as an artist against a cultural landscape that has changed and yet remains mired in many of the same thorny issues regarding the nature of desire and inspiration, and the relationship of artist and landscape.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis image is a homage to one of Weston’s iconic photographs of Wilson, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNude\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, 1936, which was taken on the deck of their bedroom in California in 1936. In Connell’s contemporary interpretation, photographing her partner in a similar pose, the roles of Wilson and Weston are intertwined with their own. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePictures of Charis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e explores the dynamics of photographer-to-sitter relationships and serves at once as an homage to Charis Wilson and a backdrop to raise questions about gender, sexuality, and relationships in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eProceeds from the sale of this print directly support the artist and Aperture's nonprofit publishing, educational and public programs. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514159566982,"sku":"LB166","price":630.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-LB166-1_b34a59eb-a1e1-4554-8c7b-7eb165060af6.jpg?v=1763776619"},{"product_id":"tina-barney-family-ties","title":"Tina Barney: Family Ties","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1970s, Tina Barney began a decades-long exploration of the everyday but often hidden life of the New England upper class, of which she and her family belonged. Photographing close relatives and friends, she became an astute observer of the rituals common to the intergenerational summer gatherings held in picturesque homes along the East Coast. Developing her portraiture further in the 1980s, she began directing her subjects, giving an intimate scale to her large-format photographs. These personal, often surreal, scenes present a secret world of the haute bourgeoisie—a landscape of hidden tension found in microexpressions and in, what Barney calls, the subtle gestures of “disruption” that belie the dreamlike worlds of patrician tableaux.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFamily Ties\u003c\/i\u003e collects sixty large-format portraits from the three decades that defined Barney’s career—accompanying the first retrospective exhibition of the artist in Europe at the Jeu de Paume, Paris. The book includes an essay by Quentin Bajac, the exhibition’s commissioner and director, as well as an interview with the artist by Sarah Meister, the executive director of Aperture, and a text by the artist James Welling. These texts illuminate the artist’s approach to large-format photography, her ongoing interest in the rituals of families, and her personal ideas of composition, color, and the complex relationship between photography and painting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTina Barney: Family Ties\u003c\/i\u003e is copublished by Aperture and Atelier EXB.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514160189574,"sku":"15889","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-15889-1_af9d95ef-46b5-43a2-b9db-f4a1a6629e25.jpg?v=1763692928"},{"product_id":"austin-2020","title":"Arielle Bobb-Willis: Austin, 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eAperture is pleased to release this limited-edition print by Arielle Bobb-Willis on the occasion of the publication of the artist’s first monograph, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/aperture.org\/books\/arielle-bobb-willis-keep-the-kid-alive\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eKeep the Kid Alive\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2024).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExemplary of Bobb-Willis’s work, \u003cem\u003eAustin\u003c\/em\u003e (2020) is a vivid statement about color, gesture, and style. \u003cem\u003eKeep\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003e the Kid Alive\u003c\/i\u003e invites audiences into a brightly imaginative world, filled with dynamic colors, gestures, and unusual poses of the artist’s own creation. Transforming the streets of New Orleans, New York, and Los Angeles into lush backdrops for her wonderfully surreal tableaus, Bobb-Willis makes unforgettable images that expand the genres of fashion and art photography. “I love the idea of seeing Black people represented in an abstract way,” Bobb-Willis says. “It’s important to me to continue to reject the notion that Black expression is limited—or limiting.” With a conversation between Bobb-Willis and a dynamic range of artists, stylists, and creatives who speak about keeping their “inner kid” alive, this book captures a definitive young artist’s unconventional worldbuilding.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514160713862,"sku":"LB176","price":840.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-LB176-1_ca90c2eb-f70e-4190-a5c5-49e5fe0eb4c6.jpg?v=1763776636"},{"product_id":"plate-vi-2022-from-the-series-plates-i-xxxi","title":"Lia Darjes: Plate VI, 2022; from the series Plates I–XXXI","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring lockdown, the Berlin-based artist Lia Darjes relocated to her parents’ countryside home. In an essay by Jesse Dorris for the spring issue of \u003cem\u003eAperture\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, “Photography \u0026amp; Painting,” Darjes reflects on that time: “I was sitting in the garden one day, just thinking, ‘What’s next?’” she recalls. “Then I saw a squirrel jump onto our garden table, and I thought, ‘I wonder if I can recreate that.’” Despite her early passion for photojournalism, Darjes has long been seduced by the dramatic artifice of the Dutch \u003cem\u003evanitas\u003c\/em\u003e tradition. “I struggled, because I was always interested by still life, but it’s made up—arranged,” she says.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis photograph is part of the series \u003cem\u003ePlates I–XXXI\u003c\/em\u003e, the imaginative outcome of her first encounter with that neighborly squirrel. Inspired by that moment, she began orchestrating picnics and luncheons on tables in gardens of friends and family. She leaves behind delicate remnants of these meals, subtly coaxing future guests. Their movements, in turn, trigger the camera, which has been left in place for hours or even days. The result is a fairytale-like scene featuring a coal tit whose presence serves as a quiet testament to the space where the natural world and the human world gracefully intersect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe proceeds from the sale of this limited-edition print and book set directly supports the artist and Aperture’s nonprofit publishing, educational, and public programs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514161500294,"sku":"LM064","price":490.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-LM064-1_51d3fd49-19ec-48a2-939f-f92231414507.jpg?v=1763776663"},{"product_id":"aperture-masters-of-photography-series-paul-strand","title":"Paul Strand: Aperture Masters of Photography","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul Strand (1890-1976) was more than a great artist: he was a discoverer of the true potential of photography as the most dynamic medium of the twentieth century. Purity, elegance and passion are the hallmarks of Strand's imagery. As a youth, Strand studied under Lewis Hine and went on to draw acclaim from such illustrious sources as Alfred Stieglitz. After World War II, Strand traveled around the world to photograph, and, in the process, created a dynamic and significant body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this redesigned and expanded version of a classic Aperture book, Peter Barberie, Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art, a leading historian on Strand, and curator of the major 2014 retrospective exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, introduces the work and presents an image-by-image commentary, along with an expanded chronology of the artist's life. \"Paul Strand is one of those photographers who have established not just a body of work but a way of seeing. His prints encourage the eye to take an apparently endless journey.\" --\"The Times Literary Supplement,\" from a review of the original edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43491595255942,"sku":"12864","price":9.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/paul-strand-masters-aperture-covercopy.jpg?v=1778597102"},{"product_id":"james-welling-choreograph","title":"James Welling: Choreograph","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eChoreograph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e extends James Welling’s iconic experiments with photography and color into the realm of dance, landscape, and architecture, yielding visually electrifying imagery. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To create \u003cem\u003eChoreograph\u003c\/em\u003e, Welling photographed dancers performing in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Los Angeles, ultimately combining these images with landscapes and architecture. In a multichannel hack, Welling attains “pathological color”—the purposeful misuse of imaging technologies as a way to short-circuit conventions of photographic representation. Welling notes: “To my surprise, the buildings and landscapes that I used often seem to function like theatrical stages for the dancers. By choosing to use ‘choreograph,’ \u003cem\u003edrawing with dance\u003c\/em\u003e, as a noun, I am noting its similarity to ‘photograph,’ \u003cem\u003edrawing with light\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lisa Hostetler, curator of photographs at the George Eastman Museum, contributes an essay that puts this body of work into the context of James Welling’s larger output, asserting that \u003cem\u003eChoreograph\u003c\/em\u003e functions as an antidote to modernistic ideas about photography, while also providing a compelling summation of Welling’s prior practice. This volume, printed in the United States with an extended ink range that captures the work’s wild array of vibrant colors, accompanied an exhibition of the same name at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrinted in the US in a limited edition of 1,000 copies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43491656368262,"sku":"LH003","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/choreography-aperture-covercopy.jpg?v=1778596688"},{"product_id":"aperture-216","title":"“Fashion”: Aperture 216, Fall 2014","description":"\u003cp\u003eFall 2014 “Fashion”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43857516068998,"sku":"MG216","price":19.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-MG216-1_7242adea-f4a8-4e3a-86a1-4aa410da01ea.jpg?v=1776009748"},{"product_id":"aperture-220","title":"The Interview Issue: Aperture 220, Fall 2015","description":"\u003cp\u003eFall 2015 “The Interview Issue”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43857516200070,"sku":"MG220","price":19.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/interview-issue-aperture-magazine-covercopy_6cd92a14-e687-453e-a42e-a321b7cdd0d7.jpg?v=1776009812"}],"url":"https:\/\/store.aperture.org\/collections\/shop-all-items-on-sale.oembed","provider":"Aperture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}