With visual verve and curatorial energy, the exhibitions in the latest edition of FotoFocus ask how artists can depict and inspire change in unprecedented times.
Mike Mandel’s book “Zone Eleven” presents commercial photographs attributed to Adams. But are they essentially found images that have little to do with his artistic vision?
Since the 1980s, the photographer has searched for the foundations of culture—and discovered gender codes in high art and kitsch.
In his newest work, Marclay mines comic books and magazines to create expressive, feverish collages.
Taken during shelter-in-place orders, Pascal Shirley’s aerial pictures of LA are full of poetic foreboding.
April Dawn Alison made thousands of pictures focusing on a single subject—herself. But, who was she?
In the Bay Area photographer’s retrospective, family, home life, and American suburbia take center stage.
In his first museum retrospective, Anthony Hernandez finds melancholy beauty in a city of contrasts.
In San Francisco, the author of the controversial novel A Little Life stages an exhibition about loneliness and beauty.
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.
