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“Although I started as a photographer, I quickly gave up that idea when I saw the high quality of work being made by others. I felt the desire to help introduce their work to the rest of the world.” Ruben Lundgren in conversation with Yuan Di, Jiazazhi Press

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Earlier this year, writer John Jeremiah Sullivan and photographer Stefan Ruiz traveled to Memphis to profile William Eggleston for Aperture magazine's fall issue, "Sounds." The "Sounds" issue will be available on newsstands everywhere August 23. Subscribe and never miss an issue. Preview ‪#‎ApertureSounds‬ here: http://ss1.us/a/cTDnpWwe Stefan Ruiz, William Eggleston at his Bösendorfer piano (detail), Memphis, 2016 © Stefan Ruiz

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"'How I Learned to See' takes the dialogue between image and text in the opposite direction as the cover of 'A Little Life' by using words as an entry to the pictures." — Glen Helfand

In San Francisco, Hanya Yanagihara stages an exhibition about loneliness and beauty. Read more on the Aperture blog: http://ss1.us/a/Etk8WqOv

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Frederick Douglass changed perception through portraiture. Read David Brooks's op-ed mentioning Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and ‪#‎VisionJustice‬ in The New York Times.

Frederick Douglass © Library of Congress

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“While Mapplethorpe recorded his idea of perfection, or the perfect picture, Dureau made a record of his own kind of Greco-Roman classicism, a museum-quiet world filled with Apollos without arms and legs, sometimes, but always astonishing torsos and heads.”  

Read a review of George Bureau’s photography on The New Yorker.

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"'Spirit is a Bone' offers a biting commentary on the predictive and preemptive use of imaging technologies by military and law enforcement agencies."

The images in Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin's "Spirit is a Bone" were made with advanced facial recognition technology to build models of the face according to the configuration of the skull. Read Eugénie Shinkle's review in The PhotoBook Review 010.

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Cooking out this weekend? Lisa Hostetler, curator in charge of the department of photography at George Eastman Museum, talks with 1stdibs about "The Photographer's Cookbook" and the significance of food photography.

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“It feels like there are a lot of people thinking along very similar lines, experimenting in similar ways, and it’s just a really beautiful reflection of how vibrant photography is at the moment.” —Charlotte Cotton

Aperture’s 2016 Summer Open was a call for contributions to the idea of photography as a magical form. This optimistic premise attracted a diverse scope of magical contemporary approaches—from pictures found in the happenstance of everyday life to elaborate stagings of studio or desktop experiments. View the exhibition on display at Aperture through August 11, 2016.

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In the 1960s, East German border troops photographed the entire length of the Berlin Wall, but the film was never developed. Fifty years later, a new book brings a secret archive to light.

Lisa Andergassen reviews Annett Gröschner and Arwed Messmer's book and exhibition "Taking Stock of Power: An Other View of the Berlin Wall."

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"Dureau distilled the libertarian lifestyle of late 20th-century New Orleans into portraiture, forming, along with Robert Mapplethorpe and Peter Hujar, a triumvirate of gay image-making, and normalizing homosexuality in the process."

Read about George Dureau's fascinating life and portraiture in AnOther.

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This fall, breathe life back into your photography practice. Join leading photographers and designers to develop your skills in photobook design, portrait lighting, and more in an intimate workshop experience at Aperture.

Register before August 8 and recieve a 10% discount on all Aperture workshops – students and Aperture members at the friend level or above also receive a 20% discount. Read more: http://aperture.org/workshops-classes/

Photo by Dru Donovan

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"'Border Cantos' reminds viewers of the politics, cultures, and communities that collide along the border, but ultimately Misrach and Galindo highlight what unites us as human beings..." Hyperallergic reviews Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo's "Border Cantos", a project that uses found objects to explore the complicated history of the US-Mexico border: http://ss1.us/a/3izJr0ni

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This fall, breathe life back into your photography practice. Join leading photographers and designers to develop your skills in photobook design, portrait lighting, and more in an intimate workshop experience at Aperture.

Register before August 8 and recieve a 10% discount on all Aperture workshops – students and Aperture members at the friend level or above also receive a 20% discount.

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Did you know photography had an important role in shaping the National Park Service? Read a review of "Picturing America's National Parks" on Audubon.

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In the 1950s, Diane Arbus's experiments in street photography and portraiture pushed a radical vision of self-consciousness. A new exhibition at The Met Breuer, featuring previously unseen prints, reveals the early impulses of a modern master. Will Heinrich reviews "diane arbus: in the beginning."

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"Taken together, their projects confound common themes within recent displays of photography from Africa, from romanticism to pessimism."

Read Ian Bourland's review of "Three Photographers/Six Cities," featuring the work of Ananias Léki Dago, Seydou Camara, and Akinbode Akinbiyi, currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Get a first look at the forthcoming “Sounds” issue of Aperture magazine and discounts on past issues, 5-8pm tomorrow at the David Zwirner Gallery pop-up bookstore in New York.