The winter issue of Aperture magazine (issue 193) features:

• A Magazine in the Making
Peter C. Bunnell revisits the first issue of Aperture on the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the magazine’s founding editor, Minor White.

• Susan Meiselas: Nicaragua
John Berger considers Meiselas’s powerful project on Nicaragua’s civil war in the 1970s.

• The Author As Photographer: Early Soviet Writers and the Camera
Erika Wolf examines authors who tried their hands at photography in the post-revolution Soviet Union.

• Phillip Toledano: Phonesex
Portraits of behind-the-scenes workers who make a living with their voices.

• Richard Misrach: Untitled
A selection from Misrach’s newest body of work, plus a bonus poster included in all subscriber issues!

• Deep in the Archive
An exploration of photography that engages the concept of the archive, by Ulrich Baer.

• Guy Tillim: Things As They Seem
Tillim documents colonial-era architecture and decay throughout Africa.

• On the Edge of Clear Meaning: Reconsidering the Work of John Wood
David Levi Strauss explores how Wood’s photographs and photo-based multimedia works tackle politics with poetry.

• Disappearing Giants
Michael “Nick” Nichols, the veteran wildlife photographer, tracks endangered elephants in Chad and Kenya.

PLUS: Exhibition reviews from London, New York, The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and Tokyo

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New Aperture magazine with Josef Koudelka, Duane Michals, Joel Sternfeld, and more!

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The fall issue of Aperture (issue 192) features:

Claudia Angelmaier: Reproduction Art
A reflection on the age of mechanical reproduction in the work of art by Brian Dillon.

Invasion 68: Prague by Josef Koudelka
An in-depth interview with Koudelka about his documentation of the Soviet-led invasion of Prague.

Walead Beshty: Piece By Piece
Jan Tumlir examines Beshty’s protean engagement with photography.

Leaving Kansas: A Look At Second Life
Fred Ritchin gives a tour of the Internet’s alternative to reality, Second Life, through the photographs of Michael Schmelling.

Framing the Presidency: The Evolution of the Campaign Image
Robert Hariman discusses how candidates have been depicted photographically over the past century.

Re-Viewing Rear Window
David Campany considers the role of photography in Hitchcock’s classic film.

Duane Michals: Chromophilia
Robert Kushner comments on a portfolio of Michals’s most recent work in color.

Hanatsubaki: Perfection is Lifeless
The long life of an adventurous Japanese magazine, by Jason Evans.

Joel Sternfeld: Oxbow Archive
Gretel Ehrlich looks at Sternfeld’s latest project in a meditation on seasonality in the age of climate change.

And be sure to catch the Invasion 68 Prague exhibition, photographs by Josef Koudelka, at Aperture Gallery in New York City September 4 – October 30, 2008.

Thomas Holton‘s series The Lams of Ludlow Street ( 2003-5), which was featured in Aperture magazine issue #186, is part of the group show “Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City” at the New York Public Library through August 29, 2008. Read a review of the show here in the New York Times.

The Lams are currently living in Red Cross housing following an electrical fire in their building on June 14. The family made it out safely, but their building is closed for inspection. Their landlord and NYC building inspectors are assessing the structure to decide if it can be rebuilt. The Lams have to be out of their temporary housing in December and chances are they won’t be able to move back into the Ludlow St. building, so Holton is selling limited “benefit” edition prints from the series, with all proceeds going to the family as they try to rebuild their lives.

Fourteen different images are available, they will be color 11×14 C-prints, $175 each, with discounts available when purchasing more than one. This offer is good through July 4, 2008. Contact Holton directly at thomas@thomasholton.com or you can call him at (917) 364-8044 to purchase prints and help the Lams. Most of the available images can be seen here.

Aperture Production Manager Sarah Henry just recently returned from Hong Kong, where she was on press for three upcoming titles: Michael Wolf’s Transparent City, Susan Meiselas’s Nicaragua, and Issue 193 of the Aperture magazine. All three titles printed at Sing Cheong Printing Co., a printer with whom Aperture has had a long relationship. Michael Wolf, who currently lives in Hong Kong, also spent a week at the plant, in order to oversee the printing of his new book.

New Aperture Magazine
Issue 191, Summer 2008

Features include:
-Sophie Calle: A Lover’s Monologue by Giuseppe Merlino
-The films of Robert Frank by Luc Sante
-The surveillance photographs of Trevor Paglen (cover artist) by Thomas Keenan
-Gilles Peress and John Berger respond to Picasso’s Guerinaca
-Amei Wallach examines Jane Hammond’s photo-collages
-Vince Aletti looks back at the heyday of Town & Country
-The campy photographs of James Bidgood by Philip Gefter
-Recent photography and video from Japan
-Mary Panzer’s unflinching look at Iraq War Veterans

PLUS much more.

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