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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.

Three Artists Lend Fresh Perspectives to Burberry's Latest Collection

Working with Aperture and Antwaun Sargent, New Black Vanguard photographers created images celebrating Burberry’s Monogram puffer collection.

Landscape Photography Through the Female Gaze

An exhibition explores how women photographers are upending gendered views of the landscape—and reveling in the sublime.

Agenda: 4 Photography Exhibitions to See in Fall 2019

From Duane Michals’s first New York retrospective to the swinging nightlife of London’s Soho, here are this fall’s must-see exhibitions.

How "Earthrise" Changed the Way We See The World

The story behind one of the most influential environmental photographs of the twentieth century.

One Giant Leap for Mankind

A haunting image of a boot print sheds light on the importance of photography during Neil Armstrong’s legendary moon landing.

The Private Lives of Italians, as Seen Through Their Windows

Gail Albert Halaban invites viewers to consider what can be seen—and imagined—through the windows of their neighbors.

13 Publications that Reimagine Queer Visibility

From Zanele Muholi’s radical statements of identity to Nan Goldin’s iconic visual diary, Aperture highlights artists whose work illuminates LGBTQ+ perspectives.
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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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