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Danny Lyon on the Making of “The Bikeriders”

Lyon’s riveting book about a Chicago motorcycle club is one of the definitive accounts of American counterculture—and the inspiration for a new film starring Austin Butler and Jodie Comer.

Avion Pearce Creates a World between Reality and Dreams

Winner of the 2024 Aperture Portfolio Prize, Pearce maps the interplay between time and the body.

Janet Malcolm’s Life in Snapshots

In her final book, Malcolm reflects on her career-long preoccupation with photography—and considers memory as both muse and captor.

The Cutting Cleverness of Martha Rosler’s Collages

The feminist artist’s early photomontages from the 1960s and ’70s present a world both striking and deeply familiar in its critique of patriarchy and consumerism.

Are the Women Photographers of Magnum Getting “Close Enough”?

Gender inequality is particularly notorious in photography. An exhibition at ICP asks how far the storied agency can evolve in supporting new perspectives.

Lora Webb Nichols’s Mysterious Images of the American West

In the early twentieth century, Nichols made dreamlike photographs of the frontier that feel both intimate and faraway.

What Is a Feminist Picture?

An exhibition at MoMA shows how women photographers have always demanded a seat at the table.
Hiram Maristany. Children in the funeral march of Julio Roldán, 1970

Does “Greater New York” Look Ahead by Looking Back?

The photography in MoMA PS1’s latest survey of New York–area artists tells a complex story about our time—from gentrification and migration to identity and history.
Ilse Bing, Self-Portrait with Leica, 1931

The Women Who Reshaped Modern Photography

A major exhibition shows how women photographers pictured themselves as they wished to be seen, both behind and before the camera.
Gregory Halpern, Untitled, 2016

The Post-Documentary Photographers Who Care about the World

For a prophetic group exhibition about American life, Paul Graham considers images of tenderness and melancholy.

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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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