BrendanEmbser, Author at Aperture

What can artists, archivists, and communities learn from historic collections of Native photography?

The Italian photographer Giulia Frigieri wanted to profile a young Iranian surfer. But there was more to the story than her images revealed.

Since 2004, the Chinese photographer has captured the displacement of over a million people caused by the Three Gorges Dam.

A new photobook revisits the Swiss photographer Karlheinz Weinberger’s images of rock-and-roll boys and edgy nudes in full glory.

Aikaterini Gegisian’s new artist book—made from appropriated images—centers physical pleasure as a form of resistance to capitalism.

With its vivid color, indelible characters, and documentation of a pre-gentrified New York City, Goldin’s photography is a readymade mood board.

In his glittering portraits, the artist is building an alternate world.

Six photography curators consider images that have new resonance in the era of social distancing.

Taken during shelter-in-place orders, Pascal Shirley’s aerial pictures of LA are full of poetic foreboding.

As millions file for unemployment, a large-scale exhibition explores the meanings of workwear.

Charlie Engman’s portraits of his mother are an intimate—and provocative—exchange of mind, body, and spirit.

From Dorothea Lange to Walker Evans, the FSA photographers of the 1930s shaped a vision of the world transformed by economic crisis.

Eli Durst speaks about team-building exercises, suburban Americana, and why his photographs resist interpretation.

In the age of pandemic, the romance of the empty street becomes the terror of absence.

Relating real copies of urban landscapes to real human beings, Ghirri’s photographs always produced an element of surprise.

In Cecil Beaton’s glittering world, everyone was dressed up with somewhere to go.

The photographer and cocurator of the 2020 Aperture Summer Open speaks about glamorous bodegas, New York maximalism, and why art is essential—even during a crisis.

With museums and galleries closed, the touch-screen world is the only one we have.

Posts by BrendanEmbser

People of the Earth

What a Portrait of an Iranian Surfer Reveals about Western Fantasies of the Middle East

Introducing: Muge

Rebels Without a Cause

In Pop Culture and Propaganda, an Alternate History of the Cold War Era

Nan Goldin’s Profound Influence on Film and Television

Mikael Owunna’s Photographs Show the Essence of Black Healing

Dress for What Job?

How Should a Mother Be?

5 Depression-Era Photographs That Galvanized Social Change

In a World of Loneliness, One Photographer's Search for Community

What Is Street Photography without Street Life?

Luigi Ghirri and the Indefinable

A Portrait of the Socialites as Bright Young Things

Why Farah Al Qasimi Has Her Eye on You

Are Virtual Viewing Rooms the Future of Photography?