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Ruminating on a 1995 issue of “Aperture,” Linklater began to draw, write, fold, and scan, making a new project about the ways we see each other in images.
A touchstone for contemporary artists, Cumming was fascinated by illusion and trickery, inviting viewers to look in—and look again.
During the 1971 Paris Biennale, Nakahira photographed, printed, and exhibited his daily images of the city—creating a landmark photo-installation that pushed the bounds of a “living” work.
The pioneering photographer speaks about the evolution of her career—and how she negotiated a field dominated by men.
In a 2015 interview, the great photographer speaks about his remarkable career in photography and film.
In a conversation with Ryuichi Kaneko, the celebrated photographer discusses the arc of his career and the making of the iconic 1965 photobook The Map.
For years, Joan E. Biren crisscrossed the U.S. with a slide show that told an alternative history of photography with lesbians as central protagonists.
Hal Fischer speaks about his seminal 1970s-era examination of the “hanky code” used to signal sexual preferences of gay men.
Since 2012, Jacob Aue Sobol has opened up a boldly contemporary Asia, taking us into Chinese, Russian, and Mongolian lives.
In Buffalo, the photographer finds imaginative possibilities in the city’s postindustrial landscapes.
Drake’s photographs reveal the textures of a nation too often reduced to myths, stereotypes, and clichés.
The German artist surveyed advertisements, reportage, fashion, and art history, assembling a remarkable report on human gestures.
The legendary artist speaks about why photography never reaches a state of completion.
Fusco’s photographs remain an incomparable document of gestures of public grief, capturing a moment of cultural shift unlike almost any other.
In the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite’s fashion photographs sent a riveting message about Black culture and freedom.
Charlie Engman’s portraits of his mother are an intimate—and provocative—exchange of mind, body, and spirit.
Relating real copies of urban landscapes to real human beings, Ghirri’s photographs always produced an element of surprise.
How have photographs defined a transformative presidency?
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.