Olivia Laing

Latest Stories

“To Show Our World Now”: The Midcentury Photographers Who Balanced Reportage with Artistry

From W. Eugene Smith to Dorothea Lange, photography in the 1950s and ’60s was alive with the tensions between record and metaphor.
Emila Medková, Untitled, Shadowplays, 1949

The Subversive Dream Logic of Emila Medková’s Photographs

The Soviet-era Czech Surrealist responded to totalitarian rule with an austere but rebellious sense of humor.

Get Aperture Magazine

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.

$24.95 11Add to cart