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"This issue of Aperture will be a salute to limitlessness, and a heartfelt celebration of the fully inclusive and expansive vision of life exemplified by the extraordinary artists collected here.”
"Ess is interested in the distance a camera creates and what viewing life from afar accomplishes, or the chasm between self and other."
"The ripples of Bidgood’s influence appear in most every artsy earnest queer on Instagram who gazed into Bidgood’s pool and saw themselves."
"'Lessons of the Hour' asks audiences to engage in call-and-response with Douglass, and the wealth of images and self-constructed narratives he left behind."
Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s pioneering novel “Orlando,” Aperture’s summer issue presents original photographs and writings that celebrate openness, curiosity, and human possibility.
An artist investigates the aesthetics of surveillance at home and on the U.S.-Mexico Border.
James Bidgood’s queer and candy-colored photographs were camp before camp was stylish.
Isaac Julien’s latest film explores the life and work of a man who believed in the power of photographs to transform American society.
For the second installment of our new series “Introducing,” Aperture speaks with a photographer tracing the globalization of rubber from the Amazon to Ohio.
For Jane Evelyn Atwood, who has photographed sex workers and prisoners, it’s all about the balance between intuition and occasion.
On Thursday, April 26, LensCulture and Aperture communities gathered at Aperture gallery for the opening of a wide-ranging exhibition.
Under-appreciated during her lifetime, physical chemist Rosalind E. Franklin’s mysterious and ground-breaking photograph helped transform the science of genetics.
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Aperture Announces Free Publication for Historic Convening at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute
Download the curriculum, including thirty-one texts on topics ranging from civic space and memorials to the intersections of race, technology, and justice.
Mahmoud Khaled considers the legacy of the “Cairo 52,” the men who were arrested in 2001 at a gay-friendly nightclub.
Mark McKnight’s black-and-white images of bodies and landscapes challenge Eurocentric ideas about male beauty—and aim to make “straight” photography a little less straight.
