In the late 1970s, Mary Lucier pointed her camera at the sun and broke the rules of a new medium.
Merging images and words, conceptual artists in the 1970s advanced a new visual language.
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.