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How Wing Shya Captured the Mood of Wong Kar-wai’s Films
In the 1990s, Shya worked as a set photographer for the legendary Hong Kong director. A new book peers behind the scenes of Wong’s films—and into the artist’s own life and travels.
Read MoreRobert Frank’s Genre-Bending Collaborations with Musicians
Patti Smith, Tom Waits, and the Rolling Stones liked Frank because he turned a sympathetic eye to the margins of American experience.
Read MoreLouis Carlos Bernal’s Intimate Portrayals of the Chicano Experience
For Bernal, who worked on the border between the US and Mexico, photography was a potent tool in affirming the value of communities who lacked visibility and agency.
Read MoreIn Louisiana, a Photographer Charts Storms and Weather as Markers of Time
Virginia Hanusik’s portrait of coastal Louisiana looks beyond narratives of ruin and resilience.
Read MoreDeana Lawson Guest Edits Aperture Magazine’s Fall Issue
“Arrhythmic Mythic Ra” draws from artists past and present to explore the enigmatic nature of photography.
Read MoreThe Exhibitions That Transformed African Photography
In 2004, the exhibition “Africa Remix” opened in Europe just as interest in contemporary African art was spreading worldwide. Twenty years later, does the show—and others of the era—still hold up?
Read MoreAn Ardent Observer of Beirut
Tanya Traboulsi pairs atmospheric images with pictures from her family archive, reflecting on the past and present of Lebanon’s capital.
Read MoreWhen Luigi Ghirri Photographed the Ferrari Factory
In the mid-1980s, Ghirri was invited to make promotional photographs for the mythic carmaker. His images bring the company down to earth from the upper stratosphere of luxury.
Read More12 Graphic Designers on Their Favorite Books
Whether they’re about pills, products, art, or architecture, here are the books that photobook designers always come back to.
Read MoreStephen Shore’s American Beauty
Across six decades, Shore has redefined photography—not by picturing life’s deep mysteries, but by capturing something true in the surfaces of the everyday.
Read MoreHow Alex Webb Sees in Color
Since the 1970s, Webb has distilled gesture, light, and color into layered compositions. In this excerpt from his newly reprinted volume “The Suffering of Light,” the photographer reflects on his travels, shooting in color, and creating a “chronicle of the street.”
Read MoreDayanita Singh Finds Common Ground in the Work of Two Architects
In her long-term series on Geoffrey Bawa and Bijoy Jain, Singh offers a world in which the aspirations of modernism are realized.
Read MoreConfronting the Legacy of Photography’s Anti-Blackness
Kimberly Juanita Brown reveals how the photographic enterprise is haunted by racial violence, finding new ways of looking at the dead and the living.
Read MoreCarmen Winant’s Powerful Homage to Abortion Care Workers
Assembling over 2,000 photographs of daily life in reproductive health clinics, Winant centers routine labor as an essential act of care.
Read MoreSummertime in America’s Backyard
In 1979, Stephen A. Scheer photographed a riverside community in Connecticut, showing residents reunited with natural surroundings.
Read MoreThe Uncanny Worlds of Nhu Xuan Hua
Working across art and fashion, Hua explores the constructed nature of memory in indelible, dreamlike images.
Read MoreAkihiko Okamura’s Outsider View of Northern Ireland
In the 1960s, the Japanese photographer recorded the Troubles with understated eloquence.
Read MoreDanny Lyon on the Making of “The Bikeriders”
Lyon’s riveting book about a Chicago motorcycle club is one of the definitive accounts of American counterculture—and the inspiration for a new film starring Austin Butler and Jodie Comer.
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