When a loved one is incarcerated, how do portrait studios keep families together?
Throughout her career, Claudia Andujar has always experimented with visual language to portray her country’s most pressing cultural questions.
Chris Jennings traces a visual record of American longing and discontent.
Clare Richardson and David Spero document communities embedded in nature—and search for the promised land.
Aperture’s Fall 2014 book release, The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip is the first…
Frazier speaks about the photographic legacy of the civil rights era—and being a witness to our time.
What is the role of the photographer in our new political order? Seven visionaries respond.
Portraying the working class, Killip imbues his subjects and scenes with a sense of urgency, mystery, and radiance.
The Aperture Digital Archive includes every issue of Aperture magazine since 1952, including rare, early editions.
The classic volume began its life in 1958 as a monographic issue of Aperture magazine in celebration of Weston’s life.
Peggy Roalf talks with Richard Learoyd about his portraits made with a camera obscura. Day For Night, a monograph of his work will be available this Fall.
As spring begins we revisit the pages of vintage magazine Holiday, a luxury title launched in the 1950s known for its ambitious photographic spreads.
In conjunction with the current “Queer” issue of Aperture magazine, we revisit an article from the 1990 “Body in Question” issue.
The following excerpt comes from a conversation in Aperture magazine in 2007 (#186) between writer Luc Sante and Stephen Shore.
From the Aperture magazine archive, a piece by Dorothea Lange and Daniel Dixon.
Two critics speak about how good writing on images begins with an urge to “keep looking.”
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.