Aperture 251: Being & Becoming

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Aperture’s Must-Read Photography Features of 2023

From Juergen Teller and Mary Manning to the debates around AI’s influence on image-making, here are this year’s highlights in photography and ideas.

Toyo Miyatake’s Indelible Record of Life inside the Manzanar Internment Camp

During World War II, Miyatake made surreptitious photographs of Japanese Americans incarcerated by the US government. He saw little need to glorify, humanize, or even individualize the prisoners—because he was one of them.

Japan’s Unparalleled History of Photography in Print

An expansive new book shows how the magazine format was a major, genre-defining space for Japanese photographers.

Reagan Louie on Surviving the American Dream

The photographer once believed that he had to turn his back on his Chinese culture. Today, his images show what it means to embrace authenticity.

How Gina Osterloh’s Photographs Flirt with the Limits of Recognition

In her self-portraits and staged images, the Filipino American artist explores the borderlands of identity.

An Asian American Family’s Public History and Private Rituals

In his photographs, Jarod Lew asks his family to reenact scenes from everyday life, invoking stories that wrestle with the tensions between control and care.

An Artist’s Collages about Memory and Migration

Priya Suresh Kambli works with pictures of her family in India and the US, making connections between past and present.

The Possibility of Home

Asian American photographers have always found inventive ways to engage with interior spaces, often against the demands of public visibility.

How Do Asian American Photographers Envision New Possibilities for the Future?

Stephanie Hueon Tung, guest editor of Aperture‘s summer 2023 issue, on the artists confronting the tensions between past and present—and what it means to be Asian in America.

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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.

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