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In the 1970s, a group of photographers made poetic, affirmative representations of Black life. But why did most museums fail to recognize or validate their efforts?
Photographers Tom Kiefer and Alejandro Cartagena portray unseen lives, migrant journeys, and the disparity between reality and myth.
Beginning in the 1960s, Michael Schmidt dedicated his work to the city’s history and its citizens—and moved beyond the conventions of documentary photography.
A new photobook revisits the Swiss photographer Karlheinz Weinberger’s images of rock-and-roll boys and edgy nudes in full glory.
As millions file for unemployment, a large-scale exhibition explores the meanings of workwear.
In Cecil Beaton’s glittering world, everyone was dressed up with somewhere to go.
A new exhibition reveals how Lange’s concern for the dispossessed has never been more relevant.
In a biennial and two recent photobooks, artists consider the postcolonial African subject through intriguingly intimate images.
A new book revisits W.E.B. Du Bois’s landmark 1900 exhibition on Black American identity.
Through photographs, historical documents, and recent interviews, Laia Abril presents the case that abortion is here to stay, whether it’s legal or not.
In the early 1980s, Tim Greathouse photographed David Wojnarowicz, Greer Lankton, and Jimmy DeSana—and captured New York’s downtown scene before the destruction of AIDS.
What do modern masterworks look like in black and white?
A striking exhibition in Paris revisits the treasures and dreams hidden beneath the German artist’s unorthodox photographs.
Drawing from a Chicago photography collection, the writer continues his interest in presenting the beauty of black skin.
An exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery captures the dizzying array of post-independence African photography.
Matthew Finn’s photographs of London art students summon the innocent days of the 1990s.
Ugo Mulas captured the swinging 1960s art world defined by Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg.
Working with vintage gay erotica, Pacifico Silano is committed to understanding how trauma and queer identity commingle.
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.
