In this series, Aperture Foundation works with the world's top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography--offering the workshop experience in a book. Its goal is to inspire photographers of all levels who wish to improve their work, as well as readers interested in deepening their understanding of the art of photography. Each volume is introduced by a well-known student of the featured photographer. In this book, internationally acclaimed color photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, offer their expert insight into street photography and the poetic image. Through words and photographs--their own and others'--they invite the reader into the heart of their artistic processes. They share their thoughts about a wide range of practical and philosophical issues, from questions about seeing and being in the world with a camera, to how to shape a complete body of work in a way that's both structured and intuitive.

Celebrating the centennial of Saul Leiter’s birth, the official retrospective of a revolutionary figure in twentieth-century photography.  Saul Leiter photographed and painted nearly every day for over sixty years, amassing an enormous archive, most of which remained unseen during his lifetime. Finding inspiration within a few blocks of his apartment in lower Manhattan, he was a master at discovering beauty in the most ordinary places. Celebrated today for his evocative color photographs of New York in the 1950s and 1960s, which were unknown in their day, Leiter also found success as a fashion photographer for  Harper’s Bazaar . All the while he was shooting black-and-white street scenes on his daily walks, and nudes and intimate portraits back home, while continuing his painting explorations with abstract watercolors, whimsical sketchbooks, and painted photographs. Created in collaboration with the Saul Leiter Foundation, this definitive monograph brings together these diverse yet interconnected bodies of work―including much that was previously unpublished―to reveal the complete artist for the first time. 340 illustrations / 155 in color

2013年、フランスの自然豊かな村・アルデッシュに、アニーとベルナール・ミラベルの誘いを受けて、山本昌男と妻の玲子は訪れました。
山梨県の森に囲まれた家で暮らしている山本は、アルデッシュと自分の住む環境に多くの共通点があることを見出しました。それは、自然と住む人々の暮らしとの深い繋がりです。そこでは木々の繁り、夕暮れの庭にも同じ光が流れていました。

以降、山本は何度もアルデッシュを訪れました。



山本はアルデッシュに住む人々と出会い、撮影をしました。村人の生活にとって大切なもの、飼育する動物や彼らの住む片田舎の風景を、彼は最低限の道具を使って想像力豊かに写していきました。



本作「Son Album」は、山本による自然と深く繋がるフランスの小さな村の撮影記録です。



また本書には、2020年にルノー賞(フランスの文学賞)を受賞したマリー=エレーヌ・ラフォンが、山本の写真に呼応したエッセイを寄せています。

Sleeping by the Mississippi by Alec Soth is one of the defining publications in the photobook era. First published by Steidl in 2004, it was Soth's first book, sold through three editions, and established him as one of the leading lights of contemporary photographic practice. This MACK edition launches to coincide with the first exhibition in London dedicated to the series at Beetles+Huxley gallery, and includes two new photographs that were not included in the previous versions of the book. Evolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River, Sleeping by the Mississippi captures America's iconic yet oft-neglected 'third coast'. Soth's richly descriptive, large-format colour photographs present an eclectic mix of individuals, landscapes, and interiors. Sensuous in detail and raw in subject, Sleeping by the Mississippi elicits a consistent mood of loneliness, longing, and reverie. 'In the book's 46 ruthlessly edited pictures', writes Anne Wilkes Tucker in the original essay published in the book, 'Soth alludes to illness, procreation, race, crime, learning, art, music, death, religion, redemption, politics, and cheap sex.' Like Robert Frank's classic The Americans, Sleeping by the Mississippi merges a documentary style with poetic sensibility. The Mississippi is less the subject of the book than its organizing structure. Not bound by a rigid concept or ideology, the series is created out of a quintessentially American spirit of wanderlust. Thirteen years since the book was first published, the artist's lyrical view has undoubtedly acquired a nuanced significance - one in which hope, fear, desire and regret coalesce in the evocative journey along this mythic river.

1978年から2年間日本カメラで連載された「民謡山河」をまとめた写真群。著者が故・田中雅夫氏（写真評論家）と共に「民謡・祭り」を主題に日本各地を巡り撮影した写真から、祭りという非日常性の中での人々の姿、そして日々の暮らしの中での姿が次々に浮かび上がってくる。
著者あとがきより抜粋
「1 人1人の祈りが集積されて、祭りは昴揚してゆく。唄や太鼓にのり、平手で空を切り、手をたたいて時を切り、後ずさり、跳躍し、身体をひねっては日常の呪縛から解き放される。人々は大昔から祭りの一夜にここではない場所へ飛び、自分ではない自分になるすべを知っていたのだろう。祭りという魂の時間から日々の生活にもどった人間の表情に目を配ると、どの顔も愛おしく、どの人生も切なく思えてくる。」
著者：須田一政
写真点数＝202点
判型＝A5判変型／並製本
価格：￥5,250（税込）
（2007 年11月発売）

A new edition of a modern classic of photography. Martin Parr is Europe's premier contemporary photographer, and The Last Resort is the book that is considered to have launched his career. Taken at the height of the Thatcher years, it depicts the "great British seaside" in all its garish glory. Described by some as cruel and voyeuristic and by others as a stunning satire on the state of Britain, early editions are now much sought after by collectors worldwide. Includes a new essay by Gerry Badger, photographer, architect, curator, and critic.

Small World is a biting and very funny satire in which Martin Parr observes global tourism and the tourist's search for authentic cultures that are themselves destroyed in that search.

For much of his career, Martin Parr has specialized in skewering the eccentricities and peculiarities of his native Great Britain--in particular those having to do with food, tourism, bad fashion choices and more food. Mexico is Parr's first new thematic series to be published in book form since 2002, a distinct geographical departure, and in part a greater departure as well. Parr is struck not only by Mexican culture, but also by the clear impact of America's pop culture and economy on Mexican life--the juxtaposition of Mickey Mouse with brightly colored saints, Nike logos with Day of the Dead skulls and Coca Cola with cacti. Here viewers are in recognizable territory with Parr's colorful close-ups of food, hats, signs and souvenirs, garishly shot with medical efficiency--but Mexico also includes some straight records of human faces, images that capture photographer and subject in the act of mutual contemplation. These moments of mercy are one with the underlying theme of Parr's more ironic work, calling up equally the corruption of authentic cultural forms by global consumer culture, which he both critiques and celebrates. As Parr puts it, "What I am saying is that it's a good and a bad thing. I'm constantly trying to express ambiguity. And that's what photography does very well."

British documentary photographer and photojournalist Martin Parr turns his lens on the vibrant metropolis of Hong Kong, where his characteristic take on aspects of modern life continues at times to be both intimate and satirical. This series of images portrays familiar and everyday scenes of leisure, consumption and transit in the city. Food is a central theme, though Parr often seeks out those things which may be curiosities to Westerners. He also has a talent for capturing fleeting moments of simultaneity, wherein individuals, their possessions and actions align in amusing vignettes. His keen and observant eye paints a living portrait of the city, seemingly in a completely new way.

Following on the heels of Martin Parr’s limited-edition, album-style publication Life’s a Beach, Aperture now presents this beach-friendly mini edition. Parr has been photographing the topic of the beach for many decades, documenting sunbathers, rambunctious swimmers caught mid-plunge and the eternal sandy picnic. His international career, in fact, could well be traced to the publication of The Last Resort (1986), which depicted the seaside resort of New Brighton, near Liverpool. What is perhaps less known is that this obsession has led Parr to photograph beaches around the world. This compilation, his first on the topic, presents photos of beachgoers on far-flung shores, including Argentina, Brazil, China, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Japan, the United States, Mexico, Thailand, and of course, the U.K. The compilation brings to the forefront Parr’s engagement with a cherished subject matter-that rare public space in which general absurdities and local quirks seamlessly fuse together. This book shows Parr at his best, startling us with moments of captured absurdity and immersing us in rituals and traditions associated with beach life the world over.

With its subjects and settings ranging from mountain sceneries, forests, children, villages, miscellaneous objects, interiors, ponds and close-ups, Masahito Agake’s “Roganfudoki” (lit. “Hazy-eyed Record of a Region”) captures the world as a place imbued with mystery and an ominous atmosphere. Through complex layers, Agake recreates the memories and sense of wonder of his childhood and captures the growth of his own son, all the while referencing traditions and techniques from the history of Japanese photography. But rather than simply offering nostalgia, “Roganfudoki” opens doors between the present and the past, between memories and dreams yet to be fulfilled.

“Perhaps one of the fundamental motivations for photography is to anticipate loss. While retracing the techniques of a century ago, Agake is looking into the future in which what exists now will be lost. Looking into a future full of uncertainty, his vision becomes blurry, yet he tries to reach out to touch what he sees—this reflects his longing to touch and hold onto things that may soon be lost.”
― from Masako Todo’s afterword (all texts in Japanese & English)

With “Kurayami,” Japanese photographer Masao Yamamoto and Japanese musician Akira Uchida deepen the dialogue that began with their collaborative photobook “Sasanami” in 2020.
In “Kurayami” (lit. “darkness”), Yamamoto lets his visual language unfold over two chapters (“Side A” and “Side B”). With darkness always an element, his pictures engage themes of nature and essence, always loaded with a sense of mystery and latent danger. Light and darkness feature as main subjects or as mere tools, as single elements among many or as oppressive presences.
Like their previous collaboration, Yamamoto’s photographs and Uchida’s music are meant to be experienced simultaneously—the music adding to the images, the images adding to the music.

Each copy of the book includes a coupon for a free download of Akira Uchida's music.

※ 剖析「私寫真論」，由名攝影師與文學家的角度解構「日系」風格※ 從日本的攝影史，徹底探究6個階段的攝影風潮轉變※ 分析禪學與日本美學的關聯性，轉化成獨到的攝影之美※ 具體說明何謂「日系攝影」，昇華攝影作品的表現力
【各界名人 誠摯推薦】
白茹｜昭和相機店 店長Genie｜空姐發夢日記Lilian Kan｜時裝設計師、KanaLili創辦人

【解構日系寫真】
在攝影界、手機界，甚至是日常生活當中，「日系」似乎是個隨處可見，歷久不衰的「指標性」風格。不管是照片、設計、建築、美食等，只要掛上了「日系」，似乎就是品味與品質的保證。
那麼，究竟什麼樣的照片，才能稱得上是「日系寫真」呢？
其實，這個與日本的文化、美學、歷史有著密不可分的關聯。絕非是刻意把對比調低、畫面留白，去拍些虛無飄渺的「抽象」主題，就可以模仿得出來的。
本書邀請到高人氣攝影作家，「千紅」（幸福照相館，版主），從日本的攝影史、私寫真論、禪學與日本美學、當代日系風格等各種面向，徹底探究與解說何謂「日系攝影」，何謂「日本美學」，藉此幫助你我拍出更深層、更有內涵的優美作品。

【深度探究「日系攝影」的一切】
打從底片時代，「日系」風格的攝影就經常出現在你我的身邊。
它那清新、低對比度、略為曝光過度的影像風格，受到許多人的青睞與喜愛，更是讓不少人拿起相機、手機開始玩攝影的契機之一。
然而，真正的「日系攝影」，其實跟日本的文化與近代發展有著息息相關的淵源，倘若真的想要徹底學習其精髓，那麼勢必得要深入了解禪學與審美觀在其中所帶來的影響。
其實，舉凡像是「東松照明」、「荒木經惟」、「深瀨昌久」、「石川祐樹」等日本攝影名家的作品，都是深深受到文化薰陶與融入種種生活經歷之後，才得以誕生的產物，絕不是單純地透過器材、色彩調控或是逆光攝影等單一層面就可以模仿的。
在這個攝影已經「速食化」與「日常化」的現代社會中，藉由深切地探究與了解日本在攝影方面的發展與演進，搭配各種風格與名家作品的剖析，我們將得以讓自己的攝影作品變得更加洗練、更有深度與更加耐看，進而散發出真真切切的「日系」風格。

ーーー都市に氾濫する万物をないまぜにしながら螺旋の底へと消え、光る

『Vortex』は近年、写真家・川田喜久治がInstagramのアカウントにアップロードし続けている膨大なデジタル作品群から選ばれた252点を中心に構成されています。2021年に発表した『20』（bookshop M）を経て、本書は川田のウェブプラットフォーム上における営為の集成であると同時に、1933年生まれの作家の、現代都市の混沌に向けられた比類なき視線と精神性が凝集した一冊となっています。
（出版社紹介文より抜粋）

摄影师上田义彦在90年代应三得利公司的商业需求，前往中国旅行并寻找作品灵感，他用相机记录下近三十年间每段旅程中静谧的风光以及当地人的日常生活，令人心驰神往。
本书收录了上田义彦在旅途中拍摄的中国风光，以及按时间顺序拍摄的乌龙茶系列照片。这个三得利乌龙茶系列至今仍是广告摄影的典范之作！每张照片都讲述着生活的美好和瞬间的丰富，至今仍能引起人们共鸣，勾起心中美好的夏日回忆。
这组作品拍摄于1990年至2011年间，正值中国发生巨变时期，在中国各地（包括桂林、沈阳、上海、大连）进行外景拍摄之旅所完成的作品，该系列包括旅途中偶然遇到的人、场景和景物，淡雅清新、恬静悠远的画面，让人感受到当时孕育广告文化的土壤。
上田义彦用“远方”来形容当时的中国风景。从北京机场眺望，广袤的土地上弥漫着一层朦胧的空气。这种独特的景色、生活在那个时代的人们的性格以及美丽的景色，近三十年的影像恍若梦境，饱含时光的记忆，是许多创作场景的灵感来源。

超絶的ゼラチンシルバープリントがあらわす詩情あふれる世界観により
欧米の美術界で高い評価を得る写真家・山本昌男。
木の根、波のうねり、自然のもたらす美に目を研ぎ澄ませ、セピア調、あるいは白黒に跡をとどめる。
穏やかだが容易には到達できない、永遠の現在、時空を超えた静止がそこにある。
自身が厳選した代表作94点を収録。
国際共同出版として刊行。日本語版