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In the 1960s, the Japanese photographer recorded the Troubles with understated eloquence.
Lyon’s riveting book about a Chicago motorcycle club is one of the definitive accounts of American counterculture—and the inspiration for a new film starring Austin Butler and Jodie Comer.
Gasparini spent his life documenting cities and people from Havana to Caracas. In a 2015 interview, he spoke about what it means to identify as a Latin American photographer.
Once a darling of Tokyo’s avant-garde and fashion scenes in the 1960s, Imai took an unexpected turn after a tragic accident.
Fink, who died in November, moved easily between society galas and Pennsylvania farms—and his work was always full of the push and pull of life.
A retrospective in London showcases the brilliance and breadth of the photographer’s sensitive portraiture.
New Directions covers from the mid-twentieth century are easy to spot but difficult to describe, often using pictures to describe words rather than the other way around.
In the late 1960s, Parks chronicled the young activist organizing voters, speaking at rallies, and advocating for Black self-determination.
Qiana Mestrich’s vintage pictures of Black women at work—including her own mother—show the role women of color play in the workplace.
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.
These previously unpublished selections of 35mm slides confirm and extend the stubborn singularity of Leiter’s color language.
Capturing the cultural grain of the times, artists from Ralph Eugene Meatyard to William Eggleston carefully navigated the shifting lines between tradition and transformation.
From W. Eugene Smith to Dorothea Lange, photography in the 1950s and ’60s was alive with the tensions between record and metaphor.
A prolific chronicler of the Beat Generation writers in New York and San Francisco, Mitchell also photographed Harlem street scenes and Black beauty shops. Why has his impressive body of work remained unknown?
On the anniversary of the groundbreaking 1972 posthumous retrospective and monograph, a look back at five lesser-known details from Arbus’s life and career.
An artist and humanist, Carmi exposed the public to the realities of marginalized communities, from dockworkers to sex workers.
Working in fashion and reportage, the photographer cultivated a distinctive visual language. Her retrospective is a window into history in Berlin.
A new publication of Gedney’s work shows why his lyrical images deserve a closer look.
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.
