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Rineke Dijkstra’s Captivating Videos Portray the Gestures of Youth

In the exhibition “I See You,” the photographer’s work is a study of self-presentation, showing how the camera can be an interlocutor.

Madame Yevonde’s Color Revolution

An exhibition in London of the artist and suffragette’s vibrant work uncovers a pioneer of photography.
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The Photographers Who Captured Love and Longing

An exhibition at the International Center of Photography offers an expansive take on how images can be used to create, sustain, and destroy intimacy.
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What Is the Relationship between Literature and Photography?

An exhibition in Switzerland explores the intersection between photobook publishing and art forms that combine text and image.

A Festival in Kyoto Dazzles with Photography and Architecture

Kyotographie is distinct among photo festivals for its clever site-specific exhibitions in many of the city’s stunning locations.

Joanna Piotrowska Visualizes the Power of Small Gestures

How does the Polish artist transform seemingly simple movements into significant emblems?

Two South African Artists Reflect on the Memories of Apartheid

In a dual exhibition, Lebohang Kganye and Sue Williamson consider trauma, healing, and the potential for transformation.

The Struggle for Survival in the Amazon

Claudia Andujar has advocated for the Yanomami people throughout her career. In a major exhibition, her photographs coexist with Indigenous voices.

How Steven Meisel Defined Fashion in 1993

A rare exhibition of the influential photographer’s work highlights one year of prodigious creativity.

In London, a New Approach to Preserving Britain’s Photographic History and Future

The newly opened Centre for British Photography promises to be an expansive and collaborative public-facing institution. Can it deliver?

What Uta Barth’s Images Tell Us about the Limits of Sight

In Los Angeles, an exhibition traces the ideas that animate Barth’s work—and asks how photographic vision affects perception and experience.

How a Group of Young Italian Artists Redefined Avant-Garde Photography

A landmark exhibition makes the case for the Arte Povera movement’s lasting influence on lens-based conceptual art.

The Cutting Cleverness of Martha Rosler’s Collages

The feminist artist’s early photomontages from the 1960s and ’70s present a world both striking and deeply familiar in its critique of patriarchy and consumerism.
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What Is the Environmental Cost of Photography?

From the daguerreotype to the iPhone, “Mining Photography” explores how the exploitation of labor and the environment has always shadowed the medium’s history.

Jimmy DeSana’s Transgressive Vision of Life and Desire

A long-awaited retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum celebrates the photographer’s work while avoiding the self-congratulatory drama of a rescue mission.

Are the Women Photographers of Magnum Getting “Close Enough”?

Gender inequality is particularly notorious in photography. An exhibition at ICP asks how far the storied agency can evolve in supporting new perspectives.

August Sander and the Disquieting Facts of Modern Life

A recent exhibition at the the Pompidou Center reflects on how artists sought to produce new forms of culture amid the tumult of 1920s Germany.

At a Photography Festival in Houston, History Confronts the Present

The complex, finely calibrated messages of the FotoFest Biennial provoke difficult questions about what art can actually do for society beyond illustration.
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Aperture presents “Image Worlds to Come: Photography & AI,” a timely and urgent issue that explores how artificial intelligence is quickly transforming the field of photography and our broader culture of images.

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