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5 Exhibitions to See in April

Ellsworth Kelly, the Guerilla Girls, and the Italian coast. Here are the must-see photography exhibitions in New York this spring.

Shooting the Holy Land

In a new documentary, renowned photographer Josef Koudelka turns to a divided landscape.

The Foto Cine Clube

In São Paulo, an exhibition explores the global reach of modern Brazilian photography.

Lee Miller: A Woman’s War

From the London Blitz to Hitler’s apartment, Lee Miller captured some of the most audacious images of World War II.

An Outsider in Rio

From Kurt Klagsbrunn, a midcentury vision of Brazil’s most photogenic city.

Nothing Personal

At the Art Institute of Chicago, three artists provoke timely questions about race and sexuality.

Catherine Opie's American Souvenirs

From the rush of Niagara Falls to Elizabeth Taylor’s bedroom, a chronicler of American life presents two concurrent exhibitions.

Thank You, and Come Again: Robert Frank in a New York Minute

The legendary photographer’s retrospective is here today, gone tomorrow.

Jürgen Klauke: Transformer

With provocative self-portraits from the 1970s, a pioneer of Body Art makes his New York debut.

Lartigue: Life in Color

Renowned for his vivacious snapshots of friends and family, a new exhibition in Amsterdam showcases the early color photographs of a bon vivant.

Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Katsura

At a seventeenth-century villa in Kyoto, a young photographer merged modernist vision with exquisite design. Thirty years later, he returned for a second look.

5 Exhibitions to See in January

With the new season in full swing, Aperture’s editors select five must-see photography exhibitions on view or opening soon in New York City.

When Women Get Involved

Two Paris museums put women photographers in the spotlight. But are gender-specific exhibitions relevant today?
DIS, Positive Ambiguity (beard, lectern, teleprompter, wind machine, confidence), 2015

Ocean of Images at MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art’s New Photography exhibition considers contemporary image-making in an increasingly globalized yet formless world.

Jeff Wall at Marian Goodman

Zoë Lescaze on Jeff Wall’s exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York.

Photo-Poetics: An Anthology at the Guggenheim

In a new photography exhibition at the Guggenheim, words and text take center stage.

Telling Time in Bamako

Joseph Gergel reports on the tenth edition of Rencontres de Bamako, West Africa’s venerable photography festival.

Segregation Story at Salon 94

A new exhibition at Salon 94 in New York brings to light Gordon Parks’s long-lost photographs from a breakthrough 1956 Life photoessay.

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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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