Michael Londres

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How Three Friends Turned Photography into a Way of Life

In the 1970s, Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan wrested photography into a deeply personal medium, using the camera to explore emotion and the possibility of transcendence.

Essex Hemphill’s Love Knew No Bounds

A crucial voice for Black queer desire and liberation, the late poet—finally back in print—has ignited a fire in American artists across generations.

Consuelo Kanaga’s Restless Eye

A retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum introduces the photographer to a new generation—and reestablishes her place in the canon of modern American art.
Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez, Untitled (Piso de Isaac), 2021

A Photographer’s “Spiritual Collaboration” with a Mysterious Mexican Archive

When Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez discovered a trove of pictures of a young man inventing himself, he found a way to speak about desire and beauty.

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Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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