Aperture

12/04/2022

A Photographer's Languorous Portrait of the Indian Countryside

Ashish Shah grew up in Uttarakhand, a state where many are leaving villages for the city. In a new series, he asks: What would it mean to return home?

12/02/2022

Are the Women Photographers of Magnum Getting "Close Enough"?

Gender inequality is particularly notorious in photography. An exhibition at ICP asks how far the storied agency can evolve in supporting new perspectives.

11/25/2022

28 Essential Photobooks for Everyone on Your Holiday Gift List

Legendary photographers. Iconic monographs. Thought-provoking essay books. Here is Aperture's ultimate guide to the best photobooks to give this holiday season.

Legendary photographers. Iconic monographs. Thought-provoking essay books. Here is Aperture's ultimate guide to the best photobooks to give this holiday season

11/20/2022

From his time photographing suburban landscapes in Atlanta, Georgia, to his role in the New York punk scenes of the ‘70s and ‘80s, Jimmy DeSana conveyed the radical spirit of his era through an irreverent critique of the American Dream and its images.

“Jimmy DeSana: Submission” is the first museum survey of this pioneering, yet underrecognized figure in the histories of photography, New York City, and LGBTQ artists. On view at Brooklyn Museum through April 23, 2022. http://ow.ly/gtfy50LJ77U

11/14/2022

Tom Sandberg's Elusive Photographs Show Mysteries in Plain Sight

The Norwegian who pioneered photography in Scandinavia was always training his lens on the objects that we overlook, offering black-and-white scenes scorched of excess.

11/11/2022

Announcing the Winners of the 2022 PhotoBook Awards

Announcing the winners of the 2022 PhotoBook Awards!✨ Celebrating the evolving narrative of the photobook, Aperture and Paris Photo Fair present this year’s winning titles.

Celebrating the evolving narrative of the photobook, Aperture and Paris Photo present this year’s winning titles.

11/07/2022

A new exhibition by Muus, “Rosalind Fox Solomon: The Early Work,” showcases one of Solomon’s earliest projects devoted to Scottsboro Alabama’s First Monday market.

Taken between the years 1972 and 1976, Solomon regularly attended the flea market and began to photograph it, first focusing her lens on broken dolls, then on vendors, and finally on other frequenters of the market.

On view at Paris Photo Fair from November 11–13. http://ow.ly/e6LK50LwzHN

11/01/2022

The Punk Portraitist of New York’s Underground

Marcus Leatherdale photographed the stars of the city’s downtown scene, masterfully incorporating the myth and melodrama of the 1980s.

Marcus Leatherdale’s portraits captured figures that defined downtown in the 1980s. Looking back, they still convey the mythology and melodrama of the time.

10/30/2022

A Compelling Biennial in Cincinnati Pictures the Earth in Crisis

With visual verve and curatorial energy, the exhibitions in the latest edition of FotoFocus ask how artists can depict and inspire change in unprecedented times.

With visual verve and curatorial energy, the photography exhibitions in FotoFocus ask how artists can depict and inspire change in unprecedented times.

10/28/2022

Hank Willis Thomas’s Tribute the Photographers Who Inspired His Vision

In this series of collages, Hank Willis Thomas draws on stories from Aperture in the 2010s, a decade during which looking back was as vital as looking forward.

In this series of collages, Thomas draws on stories from Aperture in the 2010s, a decade during which looking back was as vital as looking forward.

10/26/2022

At a Photography Festival in Houston, History Confronts the Present

The complex, finely calibrated messages of the FotoFest Biennial provoke difficult questions about what art can actually do for society beyond illustration.

10/24/2022

The story behind 2020’s revolutionary Stonewall Protests

A new book, "Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation" (Aperture, 2022), remembers the movement through photos, essays and interviews. Now, read an excerpt from the volume on Dazed.

A new book, titled Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation, remembers the movement through photos, essays and interviews – read an excerpt here

10/19/2022

Can the Photo-album Hold Cultures Together?

Over the last decade, as artists have turned to the genre of the family portrait, they reflect our ever-expansive notions of belonging.

10/15/2022

How Conservatives Weaponized Photographs in the Campaign against Abortion

For decades, medical images have been subjected to selective editing to create disturbing visions about the perils of abortion. But in the post-Roe era, how should pro-choice advocates handle visual representations?

10/13/2022

5 Facts about Diane Arbus, Fifty Years Later

On the anniversary of the groundbreaking 1972 posthumous retrospective and monograph, Sarah Meister looks back at five lesser-known details from Arbus’s life and career.

On the anniversary of the groundbreaking 1972 posthumous retrospective and monograph, a look back at five lesser-known details from Arbus's life and career.

10/11/2022

Mark Steinmetz Portrays the Gestures of Love between Mother and Daughter

In stirring portraits of his family, Mark Steinmetz recalls the enduring influence of a 1980s issue of Aperture about mother-daughter relationships.

In stirring portraits of his family, Steinmetz recalls the enduring influence of a 1980s issue of Aperture about mother-daughter relationships.

10/08/2022

Saul Leiter's Ravishing Color Photographs of New York

These previously unpublished selections of 35mm slides confirm and extend the stubborn singularity of Saul Leiter’s color language.

These previously unpublished selections of 35mm slides confirm and extend the stubborn singularity of Leiter’s color language.

10/06/2022

Hannah Whitaker’s Images About Technology at the Turn of the Millennium

In a series of photographs that conceal or duplicate human forms, Whitaker imagines how the digital revolution has fragmented everyday experience and meaning.

10/03/2022

Announcing the 2022 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist

Announcing the 2022 Paris Photo Fair–Aperture PhotoBook Awards Shortlist ✨Celebrating the evolving narrative of the photobook, see the 35 shortlisted titles.

Celebrating the evolving narrative of the photobook, see the 35 shortlisted titles for this year’s Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards.

09/29/2022

How Photographers in the 1970s Redefined the Medium

Capturing the cultural grain of the times, artists from Ralph Eugene Meatyard to William Eggleston carefully navigated the shifting lines between tradition and transformation.

Capturing the grain of the times, artists from Ralph Eugene Meatyard to William Eggleston navigated the lines between tradition and transformation.

09/25/2022

Marilyn Nance’s Euphoric Chronicle of a Legendary African Arts Festival

In 1977, when the photographer Marilyn Nance traveled to Nigeria for FESTAC, she discovered a euphoric reunion of the African Diaspora.

In 1977, when the photographer traveled to Nigeria for FESTAC, she discovered a thrilling reunion of the African Diaspora.

09/23/2022

The Midcentury Photographers Who Balanced Reportage with Artistry

From W. Eugene Smith to Dorothea Lange, Olivia Laing considers the tensions between record and metaphor in the 1950s and '60s.

09/20/2022

A Long Overdue Look at James O. Mitchell’s Expressive and Evocative Portraits

A prolific chronicler of the Beat Generation writers in New York and San Francisco, James O. Mitchell also photographed Harlem street scenes and Black beauty shops. Why has his impressive body of work remained unknown?

A prolific chronicler of the Beat Generation writers in New York and San Francisco, Mitchell also photographed Harlem street scenes and Black beauty shops. Why has his impressive body of work remained unknown?

09/18/2022

Aperture Foundation Lands a New Headquarters

Opening summer 2024, Aperture's new space will become a hub for public engagement and collaboration with flexible spaces for programming and re-imagined office and production areas. via The New York Times

The nonprofit photography organization will relocate in 2024, to offices across from the American Museum of Natural History, with greater visibility.

09/16/2022

Announcing the Winners of Google’s 2022 Image Equity Fellowship

In partnership with Google, Aperture, For Freedoms, and FREE THE WORK, the Image Equity Fellowship aims to support the next generation of image-makers of color.

09/12/2022

William Klein Dreams in Black and White

On the occasion of William Klein's passing on September 10, 2022 we revisit a 2015 interview with the great photographer about his remarkable career in photography and film.

In a 2015 interview, the great photographer speaks about his remarkable career in photography and film.

09/11/2022

17 Photographers Reflect on Key Images for Aperture's Seventieth Anniversary

In Aperture’s Seventy x Seventy Sale, Stephen Shore, Graciela Iturbide, Tyler Mitchell, and more offer prints from their history with Aperture—ranging from the classic to the contemporary.

In Aperture's Seventy x Seventy Sale, Stephen Shore, Graciela Iturbide, Tyler Mitchell, and more offer prints from their history with Aperture—ranging from the classic to the contemporary.

09/09/2022

Wolfgang Tillmans’s Democratic Vision of Photography

For Wolfgang Tillmans, whose work is the subject of a major new retrospective, art prompts us to reflect on political and social realities while also making us feel safe and loved.

For Tillmans, art prompts us to reflect on political and social realities while also making us feel safe and loved.

09/07/2022

This month, Aperture marks seventy years since its founding in 1952. In celebration of this anniversary, we’re kicking off Seventy x Seventy—a special limited-edition print sale bringing together original works by seventy artists, available in editions of seventy for $250 each.

Through September 30, collect these signed or estate-stamped, 8-by-10-inch prints by some of the most celebrated and influential photographers in the history of the medium, with proceeds directly supporting Aperture and the artists.

Shop the full sale now: https://bit.ly/3BmWyZ2

Images © Stephen Shore; Kwame Brathwaite, courtesy of the Kwame Brathwaite Archive; Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos

08/31/2022

Imbued with poetic ambiguity, Graciela Iturbide’s photographs employ a deeply personal vision, all while reflecting her subjects’ rich cultural backgrounds.

Newly released, "Graciela Iturbide on Dreams, Symbols, and Imagination" (Aperture, 2022) is the latest installment of Aperture's Photography Workshop series.

Available here: http://ow.ly/9L2a50KriKH

08/29/2022

The Woman Who Changed the History of Italian Photojournalism

An artist and humanist, Lisetta Carmi exposed the public to the realities of marginalized communities, from dockworkers to s*x workers.

08/27/2022

Wolfgang Tillmans on Photography and Spirituality

Wolfgang Tillmans speaks with philosopher Martin Hägglund about contemporary image culture, the anxieties of time, and how photography might foster respect for the world.

08/25/2022

8 Photobooks Aperture's Editors Are Reading This Summer

From a new volume on Dayanita Singh’s expansive practice to Trent Parke’s journey across north Indian countryside—we asked our editors what photobooks they’re diving into this summer.

From a new volume on Dayanita Singh's expansive practice to Trent Parke's journey across north Indian countryside—we asked our editors what photobooks they're diving into this summer.

08/23/2022

Explore Aperture's Fall 2022 Books

Explore Aperture’s Fall 2022 season of photobooks—from gorgeous reissues of Diane Arbus’s “Revelations” and August Sander’s “People of the 20th Century” to new monographs featuring never-before-seen work by multimedia artist Bettina Grossman and Cree artist Kimowan Metchewais, and more.

Visit aperture.org/fall22 to view the full season.

08/18/2022

How Irving Penn and Issey Miyake Redefined the Fashion Photograph

The creative exchange between two titans gave Issey Miyake's clothing a voice of its own.

The creative exchange between two titans gave clothing a voice of its own.

08/15/2022

A Photographer's Evocative Images of a Parisian Neighborhood

For the past ten years, Thomas Boivin has wandered the streets of Belleville, creating quiet images that reflect on a city that both changes and doesn’t.

08/13/2022

The Photographer Redefining Male Beauty in Mexico

Balancing s*x appeal with soul-gazing pathos, Dorian Ulises López Macías makes portraits that capture the range of Mexico’s dark-skinned majority.

Balancing s*x appeal with soul-gazing pathos, Dorian Ulises López Macías makes portraits that capture the range of Mexico's dark-skinned majority.

08/09/2022

Wang Bing’s Intricate and Monumental Films about Life in China

In his immense documentaries, Wang Bing depicts the lives of Chinese people with unsparing detail.

In his immense documentaries, Wang depicts the lives of Chinese people with unsparing detail.

08/06/2022

9 Iconic Swimming Pools, in Photographs

From the Archive: Beat the heat wave with these scenes of poolside splendor.

Beat the heat wave with these scenes of poolside splendor.

08/04/2022

Judith Black's All-American Summer Vacation

From the Archive: In 1986, Judith Black photographed her family as they drove across the United States, recording the touchstones of life with intimate precision.

In 1986, Black photographed her family as they drove across the United States, recording the touchstones of life with intimate precision.