Aperture Alike

Aperture Alike

Author: Lucas Roman

Publisher: Di Angelo Publications

Published: 2021-01-25

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1942549806

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Aperture Alike began when the author first walked into a rock-climbing gym, and soon after, a community, more than a decade ago. A community held up by friends, mentors, and unlikely prophets of the steep, which quickly presented a fantastic, intoxicating path; a lifestyle without equal. While the sensational, rugged, and itinerant chapters - from high peaks to depraved inner landscapes – of the outdoor life came together, one facet soon became clear. The inner journeys of those friends, mentors, and homely prophets far exceeded any outward feat of will. Aperture Alike attempts to shine light into the deeper realities, the inner character swings and the unplanned arcs of those who have both devoted themselves to an outside craft, and to defining themselves apart from it. Aperture Alike is a collection of short stories about community, about people pursuing their own immutably holy center point, in the midst of a life defined by trials and tribulation.


The Library Book

The Library Book

Author:

Publisher: Aperture Foundation

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 9781597113748

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Schiff's photographs capture the shifting architectural styles and missions of the library, from the very earliest American libraries to the modernist masterpieces of Louis I. Kahn and others. The sweeping 360-degree panoramas help the viewer maintain the original vision of the architects. In the introductory essay, Manguel considers the story of the library in America, its evolving architecture and cultural role, and how the American model reflects the archetypal idea of the universal library.


Aperture Conversations

Aperture Conversations

Author: Melissa Harris

Publisher: Aperture

Published: 2018-04-12

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 9781597113069

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Why did Henri Cartier-Bresson nearly have a posthumous exhibition while still alive? What led Stephen Shore to work with color? Why was Sophie Calle accused of stealing Vermeer's The Concert? And what is Susan Meiselas's take on Instagram and the future of online storytelling? Aperture Conversations presents a selection of interviews highlighting critical dialogue between photographers, esteemed critics, curators, editors, and artists from 1985 to the present day. Emerging talent along with well-established photographers discuss their work openly and examine the future of the medium. Drawn primarily from Aperture magazine with selections from Aperture's booklist and online platform, Aperture Conversations celebrates the artist's voice, collaborations, and the photography community at large.


Black Aperture

Black Aperture

Author: Matt Rasmussen

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 0807150886

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In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother's suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In "Outgoing," the speaker erases his brother's answering machine message to save his family from "the shame of dead you / answering calls." In other poems, once-ordinary objects become dreamlike. A buried light bulb blooms downward, "a flower / of smoldering filaments." A refrigerator holds an evening landscape, "a tinfoil lake," "vegetables / dying in the crisper." Destructive and redemptive, Black Aperture opens to the complicated entanglements of mourning: damage and healing, sorrow and laughter, and torment balanced with moments of relief.


Feast for the Eyes

Feast for the Eyes

Author: Susan Bright

Publisher: Aperture Foundation

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781597113618

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Food has been a much-photographed subject throughout the history of photography, across genres, including art and advertising. This is the first book to survey the rich history of food in photography, and the photographers who developed new ways of describing food in pictures. Through key images, Susan Bright explores the important figures and movements of food photography to provide an essential primer, from the earliest photographers to contemporary artists.


Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus

Author: Diane Arbus

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780375506208

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Featuring 562 color photos, "Revelations" is an intimate and comprehensive study of the work of one of the most powerful photographers of the 20th century.


Ming Smith: an Aperture Monograph

Ming Smith: an Aperture Monograph

Author: Ming Smith

Publisher: Aperture

Published: 2020-09-22

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781597114820

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Ming Smith's poetic and experimental images are icons of twentieth-century African American life. One of the greatest artist-photographers working today, Smith moved to New York in the 1970s and began to make images charged with startling beauty and spiritual energy. This long-awaited monograph brings together four decades of Smith's work, celebrating her trademark lyricism, distinctively blurred silhouettes, dynamic street scenes, and deep devotion to theater, music, poetry, and dance--from the "Pittsburgh Cycle" plays of August Wilson to the Afrofuturism of Sun Ra. With never-before-seen images, and a range of illuminating essays and interviews, this tribute to Smith's singular vision promises to be an enduring contribution to the history of American photography. Copublished by Aperture and Documentary Arts


Hank Willis Thomas

Hank Willis Thomas

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Publisher: Aperture

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781597114486

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Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal presents a survey of the artist's interdisciplinary output, incorporating all aspects of his practice, with a particular focus on the work's relationship to the photographic image and to issues of representation and perception. Contextualized with incisive essays by Portland Art Museum curators Julia Dolan and Sara Krajewski and art historian Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, and an in-depth interview between Dr. Kellie Jones and the artist that elaborates on Thomas's influences and inspirations.