Aperture

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ApertureCultureAperture Opens at 380 Columbus Avenue The new home for photography, now open to the public as of September 18

September 18

ApertureCultureBehind the Scenes with the Architects of Aperture’s New Home Stella Betts and David Leven of the architecture practice LEVENBETTS share details of the new space—from embracing the building’s history to coining “Aperture Gray.”

September 18

ApertureCultureThe Artist Who Spent Fifty Years Bringing Museum Dioramas Back to Life Hiroshi Sugimoto has photographed the dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History since 1975. Now his series is coming to a close. Did he find what he was looking for?

September 18

ApertureCulture14 Exhibitions to See This Fall The season’s photography standouts traverse ’90s fashion, New York street life, and government intrigue.

September 11

ApertureCultureA Season of Public Programs at Aperture’s New Home This fall, Aperture’s bookstore and gallery will host artist talks, panel discussions, and book celebrations with Gillian Laub, Elle Pérez, Stephen Shore, and Coreen Simpson.

September 11

ApertureCultureA Photographer Turns Up the Color in His Family Portraits In Mexico and New York, Luis Manuel Diaz takes the drama and beauty of Catholic religious painting and applies it to everyday life.

September 10

ApertureCultureHiroshi Sugimoto Is Playing the Long Game As guest editor of Aperture ’s fall issue, Sugimoto traces his obsessions—from the nature of seeing to humanity’s quest for immortality.

September 1

ApertureCultureIn France, an Exhibition Focuses on the Power of Truth Rather than simply documenting reality, photographers at this summer’s Arles Festival negotiate memory and challenge dominant narratives.

August 21

ApertureCultureHow Catherine Opie Learned the Art of Teaching Photography Students often imagine that a career in art can be sustained by inspiration alone. But endurance, structure, and collaboration are equally essential.

August 18

ApertureCultureAn Odyssey Across the Japanese Archipelago For ten years, Ishikawa Naoki traveled among the country's numerous islands, documenting scenes of everyday life and ceremonial traditions found on the margins.

August 13

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo