Aperture 248: The 70th Anniversary Issue

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6 New and Notable Photobooks

From LaToya Ruby Frazier’s chronicle about Flint, Michigan to a survey of Nigel Shafran’s innovative fashion photography, here are reviews of six recent books.

Hank Willis Thomas’s Tribute to the Photographers Who Inspire His Vision

In this series of collages, Thomas draws on stories from Aperture in the 2010s, a decade during which looking back was as vital as looking forward.

Can the Photo-album Hold Cultures Together?

Over the last decade, as artists have turned to the genre of the family portrait, they reflect our ever-expansive notions of belonging.

Hannah Whitaker’s Images About Technology and Anxiety at the Turn of the Millennium

In a series of photographs that conceal or duplicate human forms, Whitaker imagines how the digital revolution has fragmented everyday experience and meaning.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1960

How Photographers in the 1970s Redefined the Medium

Capturing the cultural grain of the times, artists from Ralph Eugene Meatyard to William Eggleston carefully navigated the shifting lines between tradition and transformation.

“To Show Our World Now”: The Midcentury Photographers Who Balanced Reportage with Artistry

From W. Eugene Smith to Dorothea Lange, photography in the 1950s and ’60s was alive with the tensions between record and metaphor.

Aperture Celebrates Seventy Years in Print

The “70th Anniversary” issue explores the magazine’s past while charting its future—and features original commissions by leading artists and photographers.

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Aperture Releases “Counter Histories,” Produced with Magnum Foundation Spring Issue Presents Photographers Who Uncover Personal and Political Histories (New York—March 6, 2024) What creative possibilities are offered by the gaps, absences, and silences in historical records? This spring, Aperture magazine presents “Counter Histories,” an issue produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation and informed by their…