Posts by ApertureWS
Camerawork Now
For Akinbode Akinbiyi, new technologies have helped and hindered the development of photography in Africa.
Read MoreAt a British Photography Biennial, Glimmers of Optimism
The FORMAT Festival has put Derby on the U.K.’s cultural map. But can it survive Brexit?
Read MorePicturing the Early Days of Hip-Hop
Charlie Ahearn and Grand Wizzard Theodore discuss the rise of Hip-Hop at the Ecstasy Garage Disco.
Read MoreMartine Syms: Conscious Resistance
In photographs and videos, an artist pushes back against reductive stereotypes of black life.
Read MoreHenri Cartier-Bresson's Glimpse of India
Spanning decades, an exhibition of the iconic photographer’s work in India reveals the fraught nature of photojournalism.
Read More9 Photographers Picturing Motherhood
These photographers illuminate truths about the experience of motherhood.
Read More5 Exhibitions to See in May
From teenage portraits to postwar Manhattan, here are must-see photography exhibitions in New York.
Read MoreA History of White Men in South Africa
In a new film, photographer Mikhael Subotzky takes on two hundred years of white masculinity.
Read MoreRobert Adams on Gregory Halpern, ZZYZX
D. H. Lawrence admired the American Southwest but found Southern California troubling: “In a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false.” Gregory Halpern records an aspect of what still seems to be its emptiness—a careless isolation from one…
Read MoreGuilty Pleasures/Hidden Treasures: Darius Himes and Frish Brandt
Darius Himes on Robert Spector The Pizza Hut Story Melcher Media and IPHFHA New York and Wichita, KS, 2008 The official geographic center of the continental United States of America is in Lebanon, Kansas, a mere 199 miles from Wichita, the birthplace of Pizza Hut. It somehow seems…
Read MoreFrédérique Destribats on Children’s PhotoBooks
As photography developed in the wake of its invention in 1839, constant improvement in processing and printing techniques, quality and production, accelerated the distribution of the photobook and contributed to its success. Naturally feeding on this history, photographically illustrated books for children were introduced by the end of the nineteenth century. Their expansion was…
Read MoreThe Joy of Photography
An exhibition in Amsterdam revisits Ed van der Elsken’s passionate vision of twentieth-century life.
Read MoreHow Soon Is Now?
A sprawling exhibition showcases Wolfgang Tillmans’s restless curiosity—about everything.
Read MorePublisher Profile
TBW Books Matthew Leifheit in conversation with Paul Schiek So often in art—as in life—the decision to prioritize someone else’s dreams, even temporarily, is looked at as if it means one’s own artistic vision and conviction may be wavering. Paul Schiek, a photographer and independent publisher based in Oakland, California, has been curating, writing, and…
Read MoreEditor’s Note
The essential goal of publishing is to make public. But when publishing photobooks, who do we consider our public to be? This is a question I ask myself a lot in my work as an editor: who is this project for and how do we reach them? What many would consider a photobook, those who…
Read MoreLaToya Ruby Frazier and the Notion of Justice
Frazier speaks about the photographic legacy of the civil rights era—and being a witness to our time.
Read MorePeter Kayafas on Terry Tempest Williams, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks
America is defined as much by its open spaces—where the hand of man is invisible or only circumstantially present—as it is by convenient mythologies, historical triumphs, or architectural marvels or atrocities. This year, the hundredth anniversary of America’s National Park Service is marked by numerous publications and a variety of celebrations of the public…
Read MoreA Love Song for New Orleans
Drawing inspiration from Walker Evans, Stephen Hilger photographed a city’s disappearing neighborhood.
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