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Tokyo Reimagined

As Japan’s capital transformed, Yutaka Takanashi deployed a radical style to picture urban change.

Rich, Famous, and Faking it

For twenty-five years, Lauren Greenfield has chronicled the rise and fallout of consumerism and celebrity culture.
Mikhael Subotzky, Boat 2, 2008

A History of White Men in South Africa

In a new film, photographer Mikhael Subotzky takes on two hundred years of white masculinity.

On the Edge of the American Dream

How have West Coast photographers subverted the mythology of California?

A Witness to Resistance

From student demonstrations to farmers in revolt, Kazuo Kitai captured the social tumult of 1960s Japan.

Against Occupation

Japanese curator Rei Masuda discusses how postwar Japanese photographers adapted to a new era.

2017 Aperture Summer Open: A Conversation With Eric Gottesman from For Freedoms

Aperture recently spoke with Eric Gottesman about photographic liberation.

Behind the Barricades

Student protests shook late-1960s Japan. Hitomi Watanabe bore witness from inside the movement.

Back to the Future

A new exhibition in Seattle explores the ambiguity of what is yet to come

The Provoke Moment

In the first of an ongoing series of interviews about Japanese photography with Tsuyoshi Ito, Curator Simon Baker discusses the radical new vision of the 1960s.

A Love Song for New Orleans

Drawing inspiration from Walker Evans, Stephen Hilger photographed a city’s disappearing neighborhood.

Full Color Feminism

A former Riot Girrl, Becca Albee’s photography unpacks the politics of color.

Defying Stereotypes, One Post at a Time

The four artists in Torrent Tea are redefining narratives of Black and Queer bodies on the Internet.

Learning to See: Photography at Black Mountain College

How a small, liberal-arts college became a birthplace of modern photography.

The Revolution Will Be Live-streamed

Amid the overwhelming barrage of news and ideas online, can an image change anything?

Roe Ethridge is a Good Southern Boy

The influential photographer, who once worked for JCPenney’s, riffs on nostalgic Americana.

The Renegade Video Artist

In the late 1970s, Mary Lucier pointed her camera at the sun and broke the rules of a new medium.

Notes on a Scandal

Lebanese photographer Rasha Kahil turns comments from online trolls into a powerful exhibition.
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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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