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14 Exhibitions to See This Fall

The season’s photography standouts traverse ’90s fashion, New York street life, and government intrigue.

A Season of Public Programs at Aperture’s New Home

This fall, Aperture’s bookstore and gallery will host artist talks, panel discussions, and book celebrations with Gillian Laub, Elle Pérez, Stephen Shore, and Coreen Simpson.

The Summer Belongs to Joel Meyerowitz

With his newly reissued Cape Light, Meyerowitz helped establish color photography as fine art, imbuing small-town life with luminous beauty.

25 Photobooks That Define America

From classics to contemporary standouts, these volumes illuminate the paradoxes and possibilities of life in the United States.

9 Exhibitions to See This Summer

From high fashion to high-speed photography—and everything in between—here are the season’s must-see shows.

The Secret Life of Photography

Aperture’s summer issue exposes a world of conspiracy, private eyes, voyeurs, hidden histories, and nested realities.

11 Exhibitions to See This Spring

From a Martin Parr retrospective in Paris to Peter Hujar’s contact sheets in New York, here are this season’s must-see photography shows around the world.

6 Photographers on Lee Friedlander’s Timeless Influence

How do Friedlander’s disorienting visions of the United States continue to endure and delight?

11 Exhibitions to See This Winter

From William Eggleston’s “Last Dyes” to Nan Goldin’s “Ballad,” here are this season’s must-see photography shows around the world.

Aperture’s Must-Read Features of 2025

Diane Arbus’s darkroom, the legacy of David Lynch, photography’s outsized influence on painting, and a kaleidoscopic portrait of Seoul—here are this year’s highlights in photography and ideas.

35 Photobooks Perfect for Holiday Gifting

Legendary artists. Must-read essay books. Exclusive editions. Here is the ultimate guide to the best photobooks to give this holiday season.

Sara Cwynar on Six Things That Inspire Her

The photographer shares a few of her favorite things, from figure skating to Aby Warburg’s atlas of antiquity.

14 Photographers on Youth as a State of Mind

Danny Lyon, Joel Meyerowitz, Zanele Muholi, and others on picturing states of becoming.

11 Exhibitions to See This Fall

From the Roaring Twenties to today, this season’s standouts feature some of photography’s most audacious artists.

Ike Edeani’s Quest for Sartorial Flair

Roaming Harlem on the cusp of summer, the photographer finds New Yorkers abounding in Sunday-best dazzle.

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8 Exhibitions to See This Summer

Wolfgang Tillmans in Paris, Carrie Mae Weems in Turin, Kunié Sugiura in San Francisco, and more—here are this season’s must-see photography exhibitions.

15 Inspiring Photobooks by Women Photographers

From the Japanese artists who transformed photography to Tina Barney’s large-scale portraits of the haute bourgeoisie, here are must-read titles this Women’s History Month.

12 Photobooks That Celebrate Black Voices and History

From Arielle Bobb-Willis’s vividly playful tableaux to Ernest Cole’s incisive photographs of America in the late 1960s, here are essential titles to read this Black history month.
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Aperture Magazine No. 261, “The Craft Issue” Cover
Aperture Magazine

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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