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Stephanie Syjuco, Still Life Construct, 2022

Stephanie Syjuco Confronts the Power of the Archive

Syjuco’s rigorous photographs show how interrogating institutional collections can be a potent tool in decolonizing American history.
Felicity Hammond, Post Production, 2018

The Women Artists Who Find Freedom in Collage

From the Dada movement to today, photographers have used collage to critique, challenge, provoke—and invent their own feminist futures.

Dress for What Job?

As millions file for unemployment, a large-scale exhibition explores the meanings of workwear.

The Terror and Pleasure of Staying at Home

How did an early 1990s exhibition anticipate the transformation of family life in the U.S.?

The Photographer Giving New Life to Ocean Plastic

Along the coast of South Africa, Thirza Schaap collects discarded bottles and shopping bags to create fanciful sculptures.

Strong Women

Hannah Starkey’s cinematic, psychologically astute portraits define the contemporary flaneuse.

Everything is Light

In her recent photography, Mona Kuhn evokes LA’s iconic architecture and landscapes.

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Aperture Releases “Counter Histories,” Produced with Magnum Foundation Spring Issue Presents Photographers Who Uncover Personal and Political Histories (New York—March 6, 2024) What creative possibilities are offered by the gaps, absences, and silences in historical records? This spring, Aperture magazine presents “Counter Histories,” an issue produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation and informed by their…