For Matt Connors, who recently curated an exhibition from the Italian artist’s archive, Ghirri’s photographs are built rather than composed—things rather than images.
Rowan Renee transformed their father’s criminal case records into works of art that signal new ways for thinking about justice.
Matt Wolf’s new documentary about the Biosphere 2 experiment in Arizona shows the uneasy relationship between capitalism, utopia, and reality television.
In the latest installment of his multivolume series of photobooks set in India and Sri Lanka, Yogananthan takes us to a nighttime Hindu ritual celebrating victory over evil.
Ahead of his career retrospective, the photographer speaks about the origins of his practice and navigating art spaces—including Aperture—as a young artist.
At the beach, at a party, or at home, the photographer imagines a world of queer intimacy and community.
Avedon transformed notions of style, celebrity, and photography itself. A new book by Philip Gefter argues for his place among the most important artists of the twentieth century.
Reflecting on the lives of First Nations women in Canada, the artist speaks about endurance, grace, and how the pandemic offers a chance for change.
The influential artist’s videos and site-specific works excavate colonial histories in North America.
In Virginia, Christopher “Puma” Smith engaged with the debates around removing Confederate statues. But is he hopeful about the US?
What can artists, archivists, and communities learn from historic collections of Native photography?
Campbell Addy and Jamal Nxedlana speak about building international audiences for Black art, culture, and fashion.
In an interview for his new monograph, Fosso spoke with the late curator Okwui Enwezor about his teenage self-portraits and how all his work concerns the question of power.
In her latest photobook, the Japanese photographer discusses self-portraiture as a radical feminist gesture.
Aikaterini Gegisian’s new artist book—made from appropriated images—centers physical pleasure as a form of resistance to capitalism.
How did Nan Goldin’s slideshow with hundreds of images, presented at bars and nightclubs, become an iconic photobook?
And not only during a crisis.
In his glittering portraits, the artist is building an alternate world.
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.
