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In collaboration with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and accompanying its landmark 2010 exhibition, Aperture is pleased to publish Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit, the first in-depth look at this world-renowned artist's approach to the body. Throughout her career, Mann has fearlessly pushed her exploration of the human form, tackling o!en di"cult subject matter and making unapologetically sensual images that are simultaneously bold and ...

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During World War II, a select few ­bomber crews from the 15th Air Force flew special missions out of Italy against targets in range of the B-24 Liberator. Flying at night without escorts and in groups of only two or three ­bombers, these "Lone Wolf" pilots served as ­pathfinders for the main assault. Their missions were dangerous but essential. This is the story of one such pilot. Walter Mattson served as a U.S. Army Air Force B-24 pilot with ...

Sergeant Paul R. Gordon served with the 8th Air Force as a B-17 ball turret ­gunner during World War II. On his fourth mission, his bomber was overwhelmed and shot down by the Luftwaffe. Seriously wounded and alone in occupied France, Paul was given shelter in the town of Mouchin before being discovered by the ­Germans. He spent the next two and a half years as a prisoner, surviving harsh treatment and brutal living conditions in a series of P...

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The 25th Infantry Division moved to Korea within hours after the North invaded the South on June 25, 1950. All combat units of the 8th Army arrived in Korea within those first thirty days. Only a handful of officers and enlisted men were veterans of WWII and well trained for combat. The rest of us were mediocre at best. Most felt there would not be another war. After all, we had the bomb. Everyone knew of its destruction capability. Who would ...

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Poems have always been a part of my life. Mother loved poems and sought moments of peace and tranquility in a life often marked by challenges.Though I resisted her efforts to share her passion for poetry, the seeds she planted were deep and the roots strong. So, as Mother planted seeds, I now plant for you who follow. May you share the ­passion of those who went before you.Use this Guide for direction, inspiration, and comfort.

When Germany invades Poland in 1939, seventeen year old Severin Fayerman sees his world change forever. His ­family's factory is seized by the Germans. Inevitably, the Fayermans are ­arrested and sent to a forced labor camp. Severin, separated from his family, is left alone in captivity. For more than a year, he endures the horrors of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and other ­concentration camps, relying on hard work and ingenuity to survive. When the...

Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs, the long-unavailable Aperture classic, is one of the most comprehensive surveys of the power and force of a major photographic figure of our time. Before his death in 1976 at the age of eighty-five, Strand combed his photographic prints and his many books with an eye to the completion of this volume. Seen here is the summation of a lifework, from the first abstract photographs to the series of plant pho...

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In the fifty-eight images of this handsome, cleanly designed monograph, Sturges sustains a delicate balance on a very precarious wire. He engages us through the tension of polarities: between public and private, between tact and frankness, between childhood and adolescence, between male and female, between artist and model...His purity of intent shines through in the images, his struggle is to observe and render his subjects in all of their co...

When Germany invades Poland in 1939, seventeen year old Severin Fayerman sees his world change forever. His ­family's factory is seized by the Germans. Inevitably, the Fayermans are ­arrested and sent to a forced labor camp. Severin, separated from his family, is left alone in captivity. For more than a year, he endures the horrors of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and other ­concentration camps, relying on hard work and ingenuity to survive. When the...

During World War II, a select few ­bomber crews from the 15th Air Force flew special missions out of Italy against targets in range of the B-24 Liberator. Flying at night without escorts and in groups of only two or three ­bombers, these "Lone Wolf" pilots served as ­pathfinders for the main assault. Their missions were dangerous but essential. This is the story of one such pilot. Walter Mattson served as a U.S. Army Air Force B-24 pilot wi...

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Specialist Fourth Class Philip Lawson arrives in Vietnam after re-enlisting with the promise of assignment as a helicopter door-gunner. It's not long before action finds him, and he discovers the immense physical, psychological, and mortal toll he must face to gain his comrades' respect and quiet his own lurking fears.

The seeds of this story were planted generations ago. Telling her own story and those her mother, Margaret W. Wheeler, related to her, Margery Wheeler Mattox draws the reader into an unforgettable tale of love, deceit, murder, intrigue, and survival, all set around a mysterious mansion built during Revolutionary times in a valley that will stir your imagination and haunt your soul.

Aftermath is the harrowing tale of Chris Hall, a wilderness survival expert whose skills are put to the ultimate test when an asteroid impact brings civilization to its knees. Journeying across the wilderness of northeastern Pennsylvania in search of his sister, Chris is drawn into a conflict that threatens to shatter his faith in humanity. He is forced to choose between safety and justice, new love and the life he left behind. Can he help the...