The Summer Party celebrated Aperture’s new look and paid tribute to the magazine’s long standing design history.
During the 1971 Paris Biennale, Nakahira photographed, printed, and exhibited his daily images of the city—creating a landmark photo-installation that pushed the bounds of a “living” work.
In a conversation with Ryuichi Kaneko, the celebrated photographer discusses the arc of his career and the making of the iconic 1965 photobook The Map.
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.
Hal Fischer speaks about his seminal 1970s-era examination of the “hanky code” used to signal sexual preferences of gay men.
Since 2012, Jacob Aue Sobol has opened up a boldly contemporary Asia, taking us into Chinese, Russian, and Mongolian lives.
How Goldin’s iconic slideshow and book became an enduring model for photographers across ages and around the world.
How Mexican photographers are pushing new visions for the medium.
Liz Johnson Artur’s intimate workbooks honor communities across the African diaspora.
In her recent photography, Mona Kuhn evokes LA’s iconic architecture and landscapes.
Barak Zemer pictures intimate moments of isolation in the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles.
In suburban LA, Sophie Tianxin Chen produces scenes of the mundane and perverse.
Collecting images and posting them to Instagram, the artist creates space for an alternative history of youth culture.
Like any metropolis, LA is dynamic, changing, evolving, contested.
In Bangladesh, the brutal arrest of a prominent photographer incites an international outcry.
In a series of haunting Polaroids, Ryan Spencer draws upon neo-noir movies set in Los Angeles.
An artist and filmmaker contends with Iranian identity.
In his staged, gel-lit nudes, Jimmy DeSana explored the body as object.
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.