The Mexican book series Rio de Luz was a courageous and energetic presentation of Latin American photography. To honor the accomplishments of the series and the artists, an issue of Aperture is devoted to the Rio de Luz collection. Separate chapters address the outstanding themes concerning the editors of the Rio de Luz series -- revolution, the ...
In Strong Hearts, popular visions of American Indians are challenged by artists and writers for whom self-representation is often as much a political as an artistic statement. For example: the darkly emotional scenes staged by Carm Little Turtle; Larry McNeil's metaphorical images of eagle feathers; Zig Jackson's satirical pictures of tourists ...
A new generation of Czech and Slovak photographers--heirs to the legacy of such modern masters as Josef Sudek and Frantisek Driktol--will be the subject of the August 1998 issue of Aperture, featuring images never before published in the West. In the Aperture tradition of investigating the contemporary photography of individual nations, Crossing ...
Aperture 139 Strong Hearts Spring 1995 Photographers: Nancy Ackerman, Walter Bigbee, Ken Blackbird, Ron Carraher, Pamela Shields Carroll, Joseph Concha, Jesse Cooday, Patricia Deadman, Monica Godoy, John C. H. Grabill, Jeremy Huesers, Zig Jackson, April Jiron, Rose Jones, Ronald Jr. Lewis, George Longfish, James Luna, Lee Marmon, Larry McNeil, ...
Aperture 149 Dark Days: Mystery, Murder, Mayhem Fall 1997 Photographers: Michael Ackerman, Kenneth Anger, Marc Asnin, Jerry Berndt, Christian Boltanski, Ken Botto, James Casebere, Bruce Charlesworth, Larry Clark, Stephen Frailey, Jean Genet, Jim Goldberg, William N. Jennings, Anselm Kiefer, Andrew Lichtenstein, Ken Light, Richard Misrach, ...
Communalistic living--the concept of living together to foster the common good--claims a long tradition in America and continues to be a vital reality today. Shared Lives photographically explores five communities in the U.S. and one in Mexico. Photo essays include Eugene Richards' intimate portrayal of a communie in Oregon and Margaret Morton's ...
Once we looked longingly at the heavens from Earth; now we can observe Earth from the heavens. The moment we were able to look back at Earth from space marked a profound step in history. The development of the optical telescope corresponded with the growth of photography in the nineteenth century. Inextricably linked, cartography, astronomy, and ...
Aperture 160 Summer 2000 In this, the second issue of the new "Aperture," the dynamic format of the magazine is employed to explore the different ways in which our right to see is mediated. Issue 160 includes a striking collection of images selected from the Perpignan festival of photojournalism, a discussion among members of the photographic ...
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