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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.

John Divola at Galeria Pedro Alfacinha

William J. Simmons on Despite Intensions at Galeria Pedro Alfacinha, Lisbon, and its connections to the New Museum’s recent Sarah Charlesworth survey.

Report from Oslo

With a Tom Sandberg survey exhibition this summer as well as the 2015 edition of the Fotobokfestival this fall, the Norwegian capital’s photography scene is flourishing.

August Sander: Prints for the Aperture Monograph, Printed by His Son Gunther Sander

An exhibition of August Sander’s prints, made by his son, Gunther, features some of the most iconic portraits of the twentieth century.

Wolfgang Tillmans at David Zwirner

A review of PCR, Wolfgang Tillmans’ first exhibition with David Zwirner Gallery, by Gabriel H. Sanchez.

Trevor Paglen at Metro Pictures

Trevor Paglen’s new exhibition at Metro Pictures focuses on the unseen images of the Internet.

Heritage and Home: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm

Diana C. Stoll reviews Ken Abbott’s new exhibition at the Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina, which focuses on the day-to-day of a prominent local farm.

William J. Simmons on Josef Astor at Participant Inc.

On Josef Astor’s recent exhibition at Participant Inc., New York, which connects photography, installation, and dance.

Genevieve Allison on Gillian Laub at Benrubi Gallery

A review of Gillian Laub’s work, Southern Rites, which documents the residents of a Southern U.S. town that held racially segregated proms.

Zoë Lescaze on Candida Höfer at Sean Kelly Gallery

A review of Candida Höfer’s recent show at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.

On Nick Waplington/Alexander McQueen: Working Process at Tate Britain

Tate Britain’s first-ever exhibition to focus on a living photographer features the work of Nick Waplington

London Exhibitions of Photographers' Collections

Two exhibitions highlight collections of art and oddities belonging to some of today’s most prominent photographers.

Anne Prentnieks on Laurie Simmons at the Jewish Museum

In How We See, Laurie Simmons revisits familiar territory, posing models in staged scenes emulating doll-like figures.
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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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