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The Photographer Who Erased Time

In tentatively optimistic images of strangers, loved ones, and golden-hued landscapes, Widline Cadet memorializes everyday moments of beauty.

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Aperture’s 2020 Holiday Gift Guide

Legendary photographers. Best-selling essay books. Exciting new releases. Here are 27 Aperture titles that are sure to inspire everyone on your list.

A Photographer’s Visual Poem about Solidarity and Protest

Yu-Chen Chiu examines collective experiences in the United States and the ways that historical narratives shape our future.

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7 Essential Japanese Photobooks

From Eikoh Hosoe to Rinko Kawauchi, here are collaborations, meditations, and poetic reflections on time and the natural world.

Gus Aronson’s Tokens of New York in the Age of Isolation

In a new series made in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx, the photographer searches for signs that could be taken for wonders.

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Joel Meyerowitz Tells the Story Behind Three Photographs from His Archive

Aperture and Joel Meyerowitz launch a special ten-day print sale, featuring three 5-by-7-inch prints signed by the artist.

Justine Kurland Reflects on Her Photographs of Teenage Girl Runaways

Between 1997 and 2002, the photographer portrayed teenage girls as rebels, offering a radical vision of community against the masculine myth of the American landscape.
Vince Aletti at home in New York, June 2020

What the Photo Critic Vince Aletti Found at Home during Quarantine

What does an insatiable collector do when all of New York’s bookstores and markets are closed?

12 Photographers on How to Survive the Lockdown

From Brooklyn to Bangladesh, what to read, watch, and listen to—and why to keep going.

Is the Still Life the Form of the Moment?

Six photography curators consider images that have new resonance in the era of social distancing.

Los Angeles without Angelenos

Taken during shelter-in-place orders, Pascal Shirley’s aerial pictures of LA are full of poetic foreboding.

5 Depression-Era Photographs That Galvanized Social Change

From Dorothea Lange to Walker Evans, the FSA photographers of the 1930s shaped a vision of the world transformed by economic crisis.

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The Photographer’s Playlist

Nan Goldin, Alec Soth, Jamel Shabazz, and others share the music that comforts, inspires, or makes them move.

In These Film Collages, Trump’s Washington Looks Just Like “The Shining”

John Pilson’s latest series reveals an uncanny resemblance between the U.S. president and Stanley Kubrick’s failed novelist.

How John Baldessari Threw Three Balls in a Straight Line

The making of a now-famous series of photographs.

Joel Meyerowitz Reflects on the Magic of Provincetown

The artist looks back on a town that has long captivated his imagination, through every flowering of identity and sexual politics.

12 Photographers on How They Conceptualize Their Work

What comes first–the idea for a project, or the images themselves?

Revisiting Josef Koudelka’s Photographs of Europe’s Roma Communities

In a new edition of Koudelka’s foundational series, Aperture revisits one of the seminal photobooks of the twentieth century.
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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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