A new book reimagines the Depression-era photography of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks, mapping a country of strangers and ghosts.
In their book “Body Language,” Nick Mauss and Angela Miller show how a group of artists shaped a network of queer image culture decades before Stonewall.
An exhibition in London of the artist and suffragette’s vibrant work uncovers a pioneer of photography.
Beginning in the late 1930s, Van Leo made hundreds of dazzling and uncanny self-portraits. What does his archive tell us about the mysteries of identity?
An artist, muse, fearless war correspondent, and professional chef, Miller looked at the world with a flair for drama—and an eye for the unexpected.
An exhibition at the Jewish Museum shows how the American magazine has been a force since the 1930s, with photography defining the “modern look” of a new era.
Sarah James ponders the Mass Observation project, now surveyed at Photographers’ Gallery in London.
From Aperture #212: Ian Jeffrey on Thomas Mailender’s use of the 1930s-era photographs published as The Night Climbers of Cambridge.
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.
