Left cover image: Cindy Sherman. Right cover image: Clare Strand.

Celebrating issue 200 with two dynamic covers, one from acclaimed photographer Cindy Sherman and the other from emerging artist Clare Strand!

Issue 200 includes:

Commemorating the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, photographers and long-time New Orleans residents Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick reveal the remnants of the tragic loss as well as the current uplifting communal spirit in the city.

An intricate link between Manhattan’s unseen past and present is depicted in photographs by Barney Kulok and further discussed by poet Max Blagg.

Recently discovered film stills from Salvador Toscano’s 1950 documentary about the 1920–17 Mexican Revolution, reveal new insight into the everyday citizen’s experience during the greatest social and political upheaval of the time.

Lucas Foglia sheds light on the unique lifestyles of Americans who detach themselves from mainstream society.

Martin Parr introduces Óscar Fernando Gómez‘s photographs of Monterrey, Mexico, framed and taken through the window of his taxi cab.

David Campany investigates emerging artist Clare Strand’s cryptic black & white images of the unknown.

Aaron Schuman looks at Mike Mandel’s playful celebrity-photographer baseball trading cards from 1974.

E.L. Doctorow talks to Eric Fischl about Fischl’s  traveling exhibition of post 9/11 work by some of the most well-known artists working today, including Chuck Close, Nan Goldin, Catherine Opie, and many more. A portfolio of the exhibition images is available for purchase here.

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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.