Uncovered

*PLEASE NOTE: Mature content

For Uncovered, Thomas Allen (born in Detroit in 1963) selected the pulpiest of pulp paperbacks and then lovingly sliced out a figure from the cover, gently folding it into position and constructing a witty scene around it. Inspired by a love of pop-up books, Allen photographed these engaging tableaux in shallow focus, rendering his prints with the dreamy effect seen in the View-Master stereoscopic toy that also served as a point of reference for the series. Well suited to the three-dimensional heft of a board book, the images in Uncovered are combined into an almost toy-like object that will interest photography lovers and graphic designers alike.

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2007, 7 x 8.5 inches, 48 pp, 27 four-color images
Board book with die-cut cover, ISBN 978-1-59711-053-2
code: aper uncv J-6
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Silent Exodus: Portraits of Iraqi Refugees in Exile

In early 2008, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (a co-publisher of this book) reported that an estimated 4.7 million Iraqis had been displaced from their homes as a result of the war. While nearly half were uprooted internally, the remaining citizens escaped to neighboring countries. The New York Times called the escalating crisis “the largest exodus since the mass migrations associated with the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.” Today, the situation of most refugees remains dire; months and years into forced flight, many are running out of money, food, and the good will of their hosts. In Silent Exodus, photographer Zalmaï (who was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1964 and raised in Lausanne, Switzerland) chronicles the plight of Iraqi refugees in Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon. Over the course of several trips made in 2007 with the support of Human Rights Watch, Zalmaï interviewed refugee families, collected their individual stories, and photographed them in their homes, where many remain in uncertainty. In this book, color images are presented alongside essays and excerpts of Zalmaï’s interviews with the refugees.

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2008, 7 x 8 inches, 96 pp, 55 four-color images
Softcover, ISBN 978-1-59711-077-8
code: aper exod J-4

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Architecture of Authority

For the past several years—and with seemingly limitless access—Richard Ross has been making unsettling and thought-provoking photographs of architectural spaces that exert power over the individuals within them. From a Montessori preschool to churches, mosques, and diverse civic spaces—a Swedish courtroom, the Iraqi National Assembly hall, the United Nations—the images in Architecture of Authority build to ever harsher manifestations of authority: an interrogation room at Guantánamo, segregation cells at Abu Ghraib, and finally, a capital punishment death chamber. Though visually cool, this work deals with hot-button issues: the surveillance that increasingly intrudes on post–9/11 life, the abuse of power, the erosion of individual liberty. The connections among the various architectures are striking; as Ross points out: “The Santa Barbara Mission confessional and the LAPD robbery homicide interrogation rooms have the same intimate proportions. Both are made to solicit a confession in exchange for some form of redemption.” Richard Ross’s photographs are in the collections of the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the British Museum, London; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; and the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. In addition to the color images, the book contains an essay by John R. MacArthur and an afterword by Ross.

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2007, 9 x 9 inches, 144 pp, 97 four-color images
Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-59711-052-5
code: aper arch J-4

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Nicaragua: June 1978 - July 1979: Photographs by Susan Meiselas

PLEASE NOTE: This book contains violent images.

Originally published in 1981, Susan Meiselas’s Nicaragua is a contemporary classic—a seminal contribution to the literature of concerned photojournalism. Art critic John Berger praised the work for its ability to “take us right inside a revolutionary moment...Yet unlike most photographs of such material, these refuse all the rhetoric normally associated with such pictures: the rhetoric of violence, revolutionary heroism, and the glorification of misery.” This new Aperture edition (co-published with the International Center of Photography in New York) was issued on the thirtieth anniversary of the popular insurrection, presenting an extraordinary narrative of a nation in turmoil. Starting with a powerful and chilling evocation of the Somoza regime during its decline in the late 1970s, the images trace the evolution of the popular resistance that led to the insurrection, culminating with the triumph of the Sandinista revolution in 1979. The new edition also includes the Pictures from a Revolution DVD, in which Meiselas returns to the scenes she originally photographed, tracking down the subjects and interviewing them about the reality of post-revolution Nicaragua. The DVD booklet features a new interview with Meiselas in which she discusses the history of the project. Works by the artist (born in Baltimore in 1948) have been exhibited at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

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2008, 8.5 x 11 inches, 120 pp, 75 four-color images
Hardcover, plus 92-minute DVD and 16-page booklet, ISBN 978-59711-071-6
code: aper nic L-4

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Periodical Photographs

This long-awaited first monograph from top editorial photographer Dan Winters (born in Ventura, California in 1962) provides an overview of his assignment work as a contributor to some of America’s most prestigious magazines, including New York, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times Magazine. With an emphasis on the artist’s iconic portraiture, the book considers the body of work of a photographer whose unique sensibility is both adaptable and instantly recognizable. Indeed, Winters has taken definitive portraits of some of Hollywood's most famous actors (Gwyneth Paltrow, Denzel Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio) and music superstars (Bono, Eminem, Willie Nelson). His voracious passion for the quirky and the creative also draws him to visual artists, scientists, architects, and everyday (but extraordinary) Americans. The book contains an essay by Lynn Hirschberg, editor-at-large for the New York Times Magazine.

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9.5 x 11.5 inches, 156 pp, 90 four-color images
Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-59711-092-1
code: aper per J-5

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Don't Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

Best known for riveting photographic self-portraits that seem eerily ahead of their time, Claude Cahun (1894–1954) has attracted an almost cult-like following. Acting out diverse identities—both male and female—in scenes ranging from severely simple to elaborately staged, Cahun was a pioneer of the gender-bending role-playing now seen in works by artists such as Cindy Sherman (born the year Cahun died), Nikki S. Lee, and many others. Don’t Kiss Me, the first comprehensive volume on Cahun, features many previously unpublished photographs and drawings, illuminating not only Cahun's work but also that of partner, Marcel Moore (1892–1972), and their intense collaboration. An extraordinary couple who worked and lived together for more than forty years, Cahun (a pseudonym for Lucy Schwob) and Moore (Suzanne Malherbe) created images and writings of startling originality. Avid participants in the cultural avant-garde in Montparnasse during the 1920s and ’30s, they ultimately moved to Jersey, in the Channel Islands (the only part of Great Britain to be occupied by the Germans during World War II). In this publication, seven international authors examine Cahun and Moore’s lives and art-making; their theatrical, literary, and performance activities; their relationship with the Surrealist movement; and Cahun’s photographic technique. The book also includes the first thorough account of the Resistance operations, trial, imprisonment, and attempted suicides of the two artists during the Occupation. The extensive illustrations encompass not only Cahun’s iconic images but also previously unseen photographs, manuscripts, and ephemera, as well as drawings by Moore. The wealth of new material in this compelling survey makes it essential for all those with an interest in Cahun and Moore, photography, gender studies, or Surrealism.

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2006, 10 x 10 inches, 240 pp, 410 halftones and 30 four-color images
Hardcover, ISBN 1-59711-025-6
code: aper kiss J-5

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Things as They Are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1955

Things as They Are presents the story of photojournalism over fifty years, from 1955 until today. It takes us from the golden era of the illustrated press—the heyday of Life magazine and Picture Post, and the moment of the Museum of Modern Art's defining Family of Man exhibition—to the explosion of digital media in the twenty-first century. This history is told through 125 photojournalism features shot and published throughout the world. These stories are presented in context—shown on the pages of newspapers and magazines, as the public originally experienced them. In this way, the publication reveals how the events of the world, the art of photography, and the interests of the press converged on the printed page. It also traces how photojournalism has developed over time alongside changing technology, media, fashions in photography—and a changing world. In addition to extensive color imagery, the book contains landmark photo-essays by photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Nan Goldin, W. Eugene Smith, Sebastião Salgado, Mary Ellen Mark, and James Nachtwey (among many others), each accompanied by expert commentary.

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2005, 9 x 12 inches, 384 pp, 500 four-color images
Softcover, ISBN 978-1-59711-036-5
code: aper phjr L-5

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MP3: Midwest Photographers Publication Project

The Midwest Photographers Publication Project (MP3) series, produced in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), Chicago, presents the work of three emerging talents: Kelli Connell, Justin Newhall, and Brian Ulrich. Just as Aperture’s classic Masters of Photography series introduces audiences to the work of established photographers, this three-volume set offers an introduction to three young artists poised on the brink of national and international prominence. Each artist is profiled in a separate volume containing twenty-five images from his or her most recent work.

Via digital manipulation, Kelli Connell uses a single individual to represent two sides of an evolving relationship. This character—the self but also the “other”—represents what the artist calls “an autobiographical questioning of sexuality and gender roles that shape the identity of the self in intimate relationships.” (PLEASE NOTE: This volume contains mature content.) Justin Newhall has spent the past few years following the Lewis and Clark Trail through the Dakotas, Montana, and beyond. His series presents a lyrical exploration of the discovery, speculation, and exploitation that have shaped our treatment of the land, focusing on the hyperboles of tourism as well as the way in which we incorporate history and mythology into the landscape. Brian Ulrich photographs in malls, grocery stores, and warehouses, documenting the bounty of commercial goods available to consumers and the peculiarities of the places that offer them for sale. From cathartic to catatonic, the shoppers in Ulrich’s pictures may be caught up in fantasy or quite simply overwhelmed, but they are most certainly familiar. Three curators from the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Rod Slemmons, Karen Irvine, and Natasha Egan, each contribute an essay placing the work in a critical context.

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2006, 8 x 9 inches, 56 pp (per volume), 25 four-color images (per volume)
Three hardcover volumes with slipcase, ISBN 1-59711-022-1
code: aper mp3 J-5

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Fandomania: Characters and Cosplay

In Fandomania, photographer Elena Dorfman examines the pop culture phenomenon of "cosplay," in which participants dress up in costumes—and live part of their lives—as characters from video games, animated films, and Japanese graphic novels. This exploding subculture flourishes at convention centers, college dorms, private clubs, and in homes across the country. Dorfman puts herself quietly behind the scenes of these fan-based events to create a remarkable collective portrait. As she describes it: "The theater of cosplay has no boundaries, is unpredictable, open-ended. It includes both the fantastic and the mundane, the sexually aberrant and innocent, female characters who become samurai warriors and brainy scientists, and male characters who magically change their sex." Explorations of identity through portraiture are at the forefront of Dorfman's work, with the blurred lines between fantasy and reality a continuing theme. She allows each individual a spotlight in which to enact their fantasy. The effect is pointedly evocative of this new world of role-play and narrative, one in which scenery is secondary and persona is everything.

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2007, 8 x 11 inches, 144 pp, 75 four-color images
Harcover, ISBN 978-1-59711-035-8
code: aper fan K-5