Aperture magazine #218

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JEB’s Pathbreaking Archive of Lesbian Photography

For years, Joan E. Biren crisscrossed the U.S. with a slide show that told an alternative history of photography with lesbians as central protagonists.

“Gay Semiotics” Revisited

Hal Fischer speaks about his seminal 1970s-era examination of the “hanky code” used to signal sexual preferences of gay men.

Surreal Sexuality

In his staged, gel-lit nudes, Jimmy DeSana explored the body as object.

Zanele Muholi's Faces & Phases

A conversation with the Johannesburg-based photographer about photography and activism, her latest series, Black Beauties, and her influences.

On Aperture Magazine Collector's Subscription Series

Aperture magazine launches an exclusive opportunity for photography collectors to own work published in the pages of the magazine.

Richard Meyer On the Term "Queer"

Vince Aletti, Richard Meyer, and Catherine Opie reflect on the term queer and its relationship with photography

Queer Aperture #218 – Editors' Note

Why an issue on queer photography? The editors on our Spring 2015 issue, exploring queer perspectives on photography.

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This spring, Aperture presents “Counter Histories,” an issue produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation and informed by their ongoing Counter Histories grant initiative, featuring artists from around the world who tell new stories about how the past informs the present.