After the social uprisings of 2020, museums from New Orleans to Toronto consider how collections and exhibitions might reframe art history—and better represent a changed cultural landscape.
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How Robert Cumming Pushed the Boundaries of Photography and Narrative
A touchstone for contemporary artists, Cumming was fascinated by illusion and trickery, inviting viewers to look in—and look again.
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Gillian Wearing Channels a Spiritual History of Photography
In her first major US retrospective, the acclaimed British artist reveals the breadth of her ambition, charting a far-reaching constellation of ideas about social identity and gender performance.
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Aperture’s Best Photography Features of 2021
This year, we celebrated photography in New York and New Delhi, revisited Judith Joy Ross’s timeless portraits, considered the “photobook phenomenon,” and asked how images can tell new stories about Latinx identity.
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The Latina Curators and Writers Remaking the American Photography Canon
How Arlene Dávila, Elizabeth Ferrer, and E. Carmen Ramos are working to challenge mainstream art history by inserting Latinx artists into white spaces.
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The San Quentin Project
Authored by Nigel Poor. Contributions by Reginald Dwayne Betts, George Mesro Coles-El, Rachel Kushner, Michael Nelson, Ruben Ramirez, and Lisa Sutcliffe.
David Benjamin Sherry: Pink Genesis
Photographs by David Benjamin Sherry. Text by Lucy Gallun. By A2/SW/HK.
$150.00
Sara Cwynar: Glass Life
Photographs by Sara Cwynar. Text by Sheila Heti and Legacy Russell. Interviewer Rose Bouthillier.
Viviane Sassen: Venus & Mercury
Photographs by Viviane Sassen. Poems by Marjolijn Van Heemstra. Text by Jerry Stafford. Design by Irma Boom.
$150.00
The Lives of Images, Vol. 1: Repetition, Reproduction, and Circulation
By Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa. Interviewee Paul Pfeiffer and Batia Suter.
$24.95
As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic
By The Wedge Collection. Preface by Teju Cole. Introduction by Mark Sealy. Interviewer Liz Ikiriko.
$50.00
Philip Montgomery: American Mirror
Photographs by Philip Montgomery. Text by Patrick Radden Keefe and Jelani Cobb.
$60.00
Judith Joy Ross: Photographs 1978–2015
Photographs by Judith Joy Ross. By Joshua Chuang. Text by Svetlana Alpers, Addison Bross, and Joshua Chuang. Contributions by Adam Ryan.
$65.00
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