The artist reflects on how ideas of history, identity, and power have always informed her acclaimed photography.

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The World According to Guido Guidi
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The World According to Guido Guidi

The Italian photographer and Renaissance man channels his training as an architect, painter, and draughtsman into quiet studies of European towns and landscapes.
Lemaire’s Designers on the Narrative Power of Clothes
Interviews

Lemaire’s Designers on the Narrative Power of Clothes

The Paris-based duo talks about what inspires them, from August Sander to scooter riders in Hanoi.
Jack Pierson Revisits His Miami Moment
Interviews

Jack Pierson Revisits His Miami Moment

Forty years after a formative stay in South Beach, Pierson returns to Miami for an exhibition of his photographs and paintings—and recreates the bed he once slept in.
The Emotional Saturation of William Eggleston’s “Last Dyes”
Reviews

The Emotional Saturation of William Eggleston’s “Last Dyes”

In the 1970s, Eggleston’s pictures were called “perfectly banal.” Fifty years later, the intensity of color in his dye-transfer prints is rarified and precise.

“Aperture is a collaboration between people who believe that visual culture is central to understanding and developing society in a way that is mindful and generative.” —Hank Willis Thomas, artist

“Aperture is a collaboration between people who believe that visual culture is central to understanding and developing society in a way that is mindful and generative.” —Hank Willis Thomas, artist