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A Biennial in Cincinnati Pictures the Earth in Crisis

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.
Ansel Adams, SCUBA Class, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1966

The Unexpected Photographs Ansel Adams Made before Becoming a Household Name

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?
Catherine Wagner, Constantine Fragments, 2014

From Rome to Disneyland, Catherine Wagner Finds “Clues” to Civilization

Since the 1980s, the photographer has searched for the foundations of culture—and discovered gender codes in high art and kitsch.

From Christian Marclay, a Primal Scream Inspired by Pop Art and Politics

In his newest work, Marclay mines comic books and magazines to create expressive, feverish collages.

Los Angeles without Angelenos

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

A Secret Cache of Polaroids Reveals a Trans Photographer’s Inner World

April Dawn Alison made thousands of pictures focusing on a single subject—herself. But, who was she?

Larry Sultan’s California Home Theater

In the Bay Area photographer’s retrospective, family, home life, and American suburbia take center stage.

Glamour and Destitution in Los Angeles

In his first museum retrospective, Anthony Hernandez finds melancholy beauty in a city of contrasts.

Subversive Novelist Seeks Her Muse in Pictures

In San Francisco, the author of the controversial novel A Little Life stages an exhibition about loneliness and beauty.

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Aperture No. 257

Aperture presents “Image Worlds to Come: Photography & AI,” a timely and urgent issue that explores how artificial intelligence is quickly transforming the field of photography and our broader culture of images.

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