Lennette Newell grew up in Nebraska, where her father was a large-animal veterinarian. So, she says, she was "always very instinctual" about her movements around animals. "I've never been afraid of them," she told PPD recently. Newell went on to become a well-known commercial photographer specializing in working with children and animals, but she also pursued personal projects. Her new book "Primates: A Kinship with All Creatures" brings together a series she has worked on over two decades: intimate black-and-white portraits capturing the profound connection between humans and primates.

Aperture has always been a magazine first, a book publisher second, and only in recent decades a place with a bookstore and gallery space that people could walk into. During the pandemic lockdown, the doors to that space, in Chelsea, closed. Next month, those doors will reopen, at 380 Columbus Avenue, across from the American Museum of Natural History. The Upper West Side is an odd and interesting choice, if choice is even the word for a decision this momentous. Aperture has historically exis...