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Wanting to be Held

What can Robert Bergman teach us about the act of seeing?

Black Balloon Archive

Liz Johnson Artur’s intimate workbooks honor communities across the African diaspora.

Fashion, Politics, and the Black Imagination

Theaster Gates revisits the legendary archives of the Johnson Publishing Company.

Peter d’Agostino Wields the Film Still Like a Scalpel

An artist considers the psychological ramifications of media images.

Along the Shores of the Caspian

From Russia to Turkmenistan, Chloe Dewe Mathews photographed the rituals and resources of a much-coveted territory.

Unpacking Ed Ruscha

A new exhibition offers an inside look at the artist’s book-making practice.

Fashion Photography in the #MeToo Era

Are fashion photographers responsible for producing truthful images?

What If Black Lives Truly Mattered?

In September 1963, six children were killed in racially motivated violence in Alabama. Fifty years later, Dawoud Bey pays tribute to a community’s resilience.

Guadalupe Rosales’s Archive of Chicano Life in Los Angeles

Collecting images and posting them to Instagram, the artist creates space for an alternative history of youth culture.

Demanding Justice for Shahidul Alam

In Bangladesh, the brutal arrest of a prominent photographer incites an international outcry.

At Least They’ll See the Black

In two recent films, Kahlil Joseph and Arthur Jafa consider the poetics of African American life.

What's In An Image?

Sharing, surveillance, and data are changing the way we look and see.

If Photographs Could Talk

How has an experimental platform for photographers created a new form of image making?

The Woman Behind the First Photography Gallery

Helen Gee risked everything to open Limelight in 1954, selling prints by Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, and Robert Frank.

How to Witness Nothing (and Everything)

Photographer Edmund Clark and historian Crofton Black trace a network of black-site prisons.

The Fragility of Existence

With uncompromising directness, Margaret Courtney-Clarke photographs the lives and landscapes of Namibia.

Framing Justice

How do photographs tell the story of citizenship in the United States?

Peter Hujar's Italian Reverie

From the underground art star, a delicate picture of youth.
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Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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