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As guest editor of Aperture’s fall issue, Sugimoto traces his obsessions—from the nature of seeing to humanity’s quest for immortality.

Rather than simply documenting reality, photographers at this summer’s Arles Festival negotiate memory and challenge dominant narratives.

Students often imagine that a career in art can be sustained by inspiration alone. But endurance, structure, and collaboration are equally essential.

For ten years, Ishikawa Naoki traveled among the country’s numerous islands, documenting scenes of everyday life and ceremonial traditions found on the margins.

Clark’s legendary photobook may seem like a timeless portrait of youth and addiction, but its images emerged from failed policies that still haunt Tulsa today.

In the 1970s, Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan wrested photography into a deeply personal medium, using the camera to explore emotion and the possibility of transcendence.

Ricardo Alcaraz has spent five decades documenting the island’s movements for labor rights, land, and independence.

In the early 2000s, John Divola photographed the soundstages of the classic sci-fi show, revealing a world suspended between illusion and apparatus.

With its first permanent exhibition center, Cincinnati’s FotoFocus cements its standing at the forefront of lens-based art.

With his newly reissued Cape Light, Meyerowitz helped establish color photography as fine art, imbuing small-town life with luminous beauty.

From classics to contemporary standouts, these volumes illuminate the paradoxes and possibilities of life in the United States.

Beyond her innovations in Surrealist dress, Elsa Schiaparelli was perhaps the first designer to fully grasp how the camera could extend and refine the visual language of couture.