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From Stonewall to AIDS, Framing Queer Desire

A recent forum at MoMA reveals a rich, often-overlooked thread of queer history and photography.

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Guest Editor’s Note Sarah Lewis Curriculum By Hank Willis Thomas Black Lives, Silver Screen Ava DuVernay and…

Alex Webb's La Calle Gives Voice to Mexico's Streets

Webb’s “La Calle” captures the intense color, cultural tension, and mystery of Mexico’s streets

Eight Facts You Didn’t Know About Photography and America’s National Parks

The history of the National Parks and photography are intertwined in surprising ways. We’ve compiled a few of our favorite stories.

In Experimental Photography, Is There Ever a Decisive Moment?

Sixteen boundary-pushing photographers included in the 2016 Aperture Summer Open curated by Charlotte Cotton weigh in on their practice.
Nelson Rivas, aka Cekis, 2009

Vision & Justice Online: The People’s Justice Murals

On the streets of New York, murals strike back against police brutality.
Cover of Richard Avedon and James Baldwin’s Nothing Personal (New York: Atheneum, 1964)

Vision & Justice Online: Nothing Personal

Was Richard Avedon and James Baldwin’s collaborative photobook a luxury object or a ruthless indictment of American culture?

Freedom of the Night: 11 Reflections on Orlando

Following the attack on the Pulse club, artists and writers consider the nightclub as a symbolic space in queer culture.

Vision & Justice: Jason Moran on an Army Jazz Band

The pianist and composer reflects on one of his favorite photographs and the documentation of jazz.

Vision & Justice: Alicia Hall Moran on Ficre Ghebreyesus

The classical singer, composer, and performance collaborator responds to a magisterial photographic moment.

Vision & Justice: Ingrid Monson on Roy DeCarava

The professor of African American music reflects on rhythm and jazz in the 1950s.

Vision & Justice: Wynton Marsalis on Frank Stewart

The legendary jazz trumpeter, composer, and teacher reflects on ancestry and ceremony in New Orleans.

Vision & Justice: A Curriculum by Hank Willis Thomas

The photographer and multimedia artist shares the books, shows, and films that have shaped his life.
Ming Smith, Sun Ra Space II, New York, 1978

Vision & Justice Online: Ming Smith and the Kamoinge Workshop

Routinely excluded from the mainstream art world, in the 1960s, a group of African American photographers formed a collective to promote their work.
Cover of Jet magazine, May 27, 1965

Vision & Justice Online: She Walked in Beauty

In the 1960s, Jet magazine captured African American life with grace and power. For an influential screenwriter, one cover was personal.

First Look: photo+craft

An upcoming festival in Asheville, North Carolina, investigates the intersection of photography and craft.

Gus Powell: The Lonely Ones

On view at Sasha Wolf Gallery in New York, Gus Powell’s poetic series The Lonely Ones explores the relationship between pictures and words.

On Paper Airplanes: The Collections of Harry Smith

For more than twenty years, Harry Smith (1923–1991) collected paper planes that he found on the streets of New York.
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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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