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Aperture’s Must-Read Photography Features of 2024

The disruptive force of artificial intelligence, a fresh look at Robert Frank, and a retrospective of Tina Barney—here are this year’s highlights in photography and ideas.

32 Photobooks for Everyone on Your Holiday Gift List

Legendary photographers. Iconic monographs. Thought-provoking essay books. Limited-edition photography gifts. Here is the ultimate guide to the best photobooks to give this holiday season.

6 Photographers Reflect on Robert Frank’s “The Americans”

Dawoud Bey, Kristine Potter, Alec Soth, and more consider the lasting impact of Frank’s groundbreaking photobook.

Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Creator Labs Photo Fund

Presented by Aperture and Google’s Creator Labs, the fund provides financial support to thirty photographers at formative moments in their careers. Here, meet the winners, recognized for their exceptional artistic visions.

Deana Lawson Guest Edits Aperture Magazine’s Fall Issue

“Arrhythmic Mythic Ra” draws from artists past and present to explore the enigmatic nature of photography.

11 Photobooks that Reimagine Queer History and Visibility

From Zanele Muholi’s radical statements of identity to the photographers envisioning trans activism and community, here are must-read titles that celebrate queer voices and stories.

8 Photobooks that Consider How Artists Engage with the Environment

From Kimowan Metchewais’s layered images on Indigenous identity to Robert Adams’s meditations on the American West, here are titles that explore the relationship between photography and the natural world.

12 Essential Photobooks by Women Photographers

From Wendy Red Star’s feminist, Indigenous perspectives to Kelli Connell’s reconsideration of Edward Weston, here are must-read titles that chronicle the impact of women artists.

A Photographer’s Record of New Year Celebrations in Northern China

Taking a local, hometown look at the Chinese Spring Festival Shehuo, Zhang Xiao considers how the thousand-year-old tradition has transformed into a tourist-facing enterprise.

13 Photobooks that Highlight Black Lives and Artistic Visions

From monographs by Awol Erizku and Deana Lawson, to collections on fashion, community, and power, here are essential titles to read this Black History Month.

Aperture’s Must-Read Photography Features of 2023

From Juergen Teller and Mary Manning to the debates around AI’s influence on image-making, here are this year’s highlights in photography and ideas.

Alex Webb on Reimagining a Photobook, Twenty-Five Years Later

In a new edition of a long out-of-print volume, Webb draws from photographs across many locations. Here, he considers the act of photography as a form of dislocation in itself.

31 Photobooks for Everyone on Your Holiday Gift List

Legendary photographers. Thought-provoking essay books. Limited-edition photography gifts and book bundles. Here is the ultimate guide to the best photobooks to give this holiday season.

Announcing the Winners of the 2023 Creator Labs Photo Fund

Presented by Aperture and Google’s Creator Labs, the fund provides financial support to thirty photographers at formative moments in their careers. Here, meet the winners, recognized for their exceptional artistic visions.

Jade Thiraswas’s Sensitive Chronicle of Pride and Mourning in the American South

For the Thai American photographer, small beauties and unforgiving travesties are all part of what it truly means to live in Louisiana.

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Gregory Crewdson and Lauren Ambrose on the Making of an Iconic Photograph

Crewdson and Ambrose are among the Berkshires residents who are actively trying to save a local movie house. “This picture feels really fateful,” notes Crewdson. “It’s been waiting all these years for the right moment.”

Photographs That Show the “Fire and Thunder” of Contemporary Life

Meet the artists of the Image Equity Fellowship, a collaboration between Google, Aperture, For Freedoms, and FREE THE WORK.

A Visit to Kunié Sugiura’s New York Studio

In her Chinatown loft, Kunié Sugiura presses conventional boundaries of photography and painting.
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Aperture No. 257

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.

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