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Erwin Olaf’s approach to storytelling is uniquely evocative and enticingly ambiguous. According to critic Francis Hodgson, Olaf’s images “lead us to a Stimmung (a sense of atmo­sphere) which is broad enough to repay many second ...

39 four-color images In this previously unpublished body of work, Gary Schneider presents a haunting series of nudes that emerge and seem to float above a receding black ground. Each image is rendered through long exposure and by exploring the surfa...

81 four-color and black-and-white images For a little over a year, and conceived as part of The New Yorker’s redesign of its front section in 2005, Sylvia Plachy was the first photographer ever to be assigned to shoot the opening photograph of th...

Henri Cartier-Bresson reveals - as only a few great artists have done consistently - the variety and richness of human experience in the twentieth century. This second volume of Aperture's Masters of Photography series confirms the genius of the ...

130 tritone images In a career that spanned nearly seven decades, Josef Sudek, one of the masters of twentieth-century photography, created his own solitary world of shadow and light, of theme and variation. The more than one hundred images in th...

Lisette Model is an unsurpassed introduction to one of the twentieth century’s most significant photographers - a woman whose searing images and eloquent teachings deeply influenced her students Diane Arbus, Larry Fink, and many others. To mark ...

104 duotone images Lola Alvarez Bravo was Mexico’s first woman photographer, and her career is exceptional both for its remarkable range and for the compelling quality of her work. Approach­ing photography from multiple angles, she worked as a pho...

50 dutone images and 45 four-color images For Paul Strand, the great pioneer of modernism, the summers of 1926 and 1930–1932 were a return to experimentation and periods of great artistic growth. He worked in makeshift darkrooms - one in a hotel ...

41 duotone images Paul Strand was more than a great artist: he discovered that photography had the potential to be the most dynamic medium of the twentieth century. Purity, elegance, and passion are the hallmarks of Strand's imagery. This inaugur...

Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs, a long-unavailable Aperture classic, is one of the most comprehensive surveys of the power and force of a major photographic figure of our time. Before his death in 1976 at age eighty-five, Strand combed his p...

In Radiant Identities, photographer Jock Sturges explores issues of youth and the liberation of body and spirit. These unforgettable images are made from his own circle of acquaintances and family; the settings are their homes and stretches of na...

A photographic view of the world through the eyes of a driven humanist, including hundreds of previously unseen images and encompassing the suffering of his work, as well as the tenderness, humor, and wonder of his subjects Capa's (1913-1954) ...

Capa's (1913-1954) photographs have become icons of the horrors and futility of war. This volume contains some of his most dramatic pictures of the battles he covered the Spanish Civil War, the Japanese invasion of China in 1938, the European the...

Children, landscape, lovers-these subjects are almost as common to the photographic lexicon as light itself. But Sally Mann's take on these iconic themes, rendered through both traditional and esoteric processes, is anything but common. Astoni...

For the past eight years, Stefan Ruiz has gained special access to Mexico’s Televisa studios, known as “The Factory of Dreams,” where nearly fifty thousand hours worth of telenovelas (soap operas) are produced and exported annually to more than fifty...