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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.
William Klein, Life is Good & Good for You in New York, 1956

Life Is Good for You in William Klein’s New York

In the 1950s, no U.S. publisher would touch Klein’s photobook about the city. But six decades later, his teeming vision of New York has become an icon of postwar popular culture.

Marianne Wex’s Study of Gender and Power in Images

The German artist surveyed advertisements, reportage, fashion, and art history, assembling a remarkable report on human gestures.

Alex Majoli, Scene #8667, London, 2017

For Alex Majoli, Photojournalism and Performance are Inseparable

The photographer’s psychological portraits cast a unifying light around the world.

Roe Ethridge on Getting It Exactly Wrong

In dizzying sequences, the irreverent photographer embraces risk and failure.

What Does Photo Editing Look Like?

In the digital age, locking down a sequence of images in print can seem like an act of resistance.
A color photograph of a Muslim man in a black coat and red scarf

You Get Me?

Mahtab Hussain’s tender portraits question the image of South Asian Muslim men in Britain.

The Book of Film

How do filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard and Sofia Coppola translate moving images to the printed page?…

Justine Kurland's Great American Road Trip

Justine Kurland crossed the United States in a weathered van, pursuing a chronicle of American Drifters.

Highway Kind

Crossing the United States in her beat-up van, Justine Kurland pictures America’s tangled sense of itself.

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Aperture Releases “Counter Histories,” Produced with Magnum Foundation Spring Issue Presents Photographers Who Uncover Personal and Political Histories (New York—March 6, 2024) What creative possibilities are offered by the gaps, absences, and silences in historical records? This spring, Aperture magazine presents “Counter Histories,” an issue produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation and informed by their…