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Isaac Julien, Trussed series, 1996

The Pleasure of the Image: A Conversation with Isaac Julien

In a new exhibition, the celebrated filmmaker returns to his pioneering work about queer black identity.

At San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art, a New Frontier for Photography

Curator Sandra Phillips previews SFMOMA’s Pritzker Center, the largest space for photography in an American museum.

The Business of Photography: A Conversation with Mary Virginia Swanson

A leading photography educator shares essential advice for working artists.

Along the Dinosaur Road: A Conversation with Yto Barrada

Is the trade in precious fossils the next frontier of Moroccan tourism—or just a ruse?

2016 Aperture Summer Open: A Conversation with Charlotte Cotton

The curator of Aperture’s Summer Open speaks about the relationship between photography and magic.

Into Eden: A Conversation with Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques

Ahead of his commission for Aperture, the French photographer previews a new project exploring the mythologies of real estate.

Armory Africa Focus Preview: A Conversation with François-Xavier Gbré

In France and West Africa, an Ivorian photographer chronicles the ruins of modernist architecture and national memorials.

Armory Africa Focus Preview: A Conversation with Namsa Leuba

A Swiss-Guinean artist takes photography to the farthest reaches of glamour.

Black Lives, Silver Screen: Ava DuVernay and Bradford Young in Conversation

As a preview of the upcoming Summer issue, two groundbreaking filmmakers speak about diversity and inclusion in Hollywood–now a national conversation.

Love Visual: A Conversation with Haile Gerima

As a preview of the upcoming Summer issue, Sarah Lewis and Dagmawi Woubshet speak with a visionary filmmaker who explores African and African American narratives.

Into the Void: Taryn Simon in Conversation with Kate Fowle

In the Spring 2016 issue of Aperture, Simon speaks with Kate Fowle about her ongoing project Black Square.

On the Cover: A Conversation with Samuel Gratacap

A young photographer reports on the odyssey of our time.

Photography at the Altar: A Conversation about Diversity in Athens

A Greek photographer’s account of religious communities in Athens reveals a new vision of multicultural Europe.

An Interview with Rosalind Fox Solomon

Francine Prose speaks with Fox Solomon about the themes animating her career in photography: ritual, religion, gender, and travel.

Images of Conviction: A Conversation with Diane Dufour and Xavier Barral

An award-winning exhibition catalogue examines the power of photography in representing crime, war, and acts of violence.

Dust to Dust: A Conversation with David Campany

In an exhibition inspired by Man Ray’s “Dust Breeding,” David Campany charts the strange career of a surrealist photograph.

For a New World to Come

Curator Yasufumi Nakamori discusses his game-changing show of Japanese photography with Aperture magazine editor Michael Famighetti.

A Conversation with David Shields

David Shields’s War Is Beautiful critiques sixty-four photographs of war that ran on the front page of the Times between 1997 and 2013.

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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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