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An emerging guard of young, female photographers carves out a new brand of feminism.
Sarah Lewis, Carrie Mae Weems, Chelsea Clinton, and other special guests present Aperture magazine’s landmark summer issue.
In America’s sprawling correctional system, how do prisoners and their families represent themselves though photography?
Vince Aletti recalls Tomorrow’s Man, Peter Hujar, James Dean, and the thrill of discovering queer pictures.
A photographer connects leaders of the civil rights movement to the young activists working today.
The pianist and composer reflects on one of his favorite photographs and the documentation of jazz.
One year after the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, a photographer speaks about her powerful portraits of the victims’ families.
The classical singer, composer, and performance collaborator responds to a magisterial photographic moment.
From the streets of New York and beyond, a democratic vision of humanity.
How has the death of a transgender African American teenager changed the debate around justice in the United States?
The professor of African American music reflects on rhythm and jazz in the 1950s.
A young photographer finds inspiration in Old Masters and Afropunk.
The legendary street photographer speaks about his impulse to record African American life.
The legendary jazz trumpeter, composer, and teacher reflects on ancestry and ceremony in New Orleans.
Five voices from the fields of theater, photography, and art history to reflect on one of Carrie Mae Weems’s most iconic projects.
The photographer and multimedia artist shares the books, shows, and films that have shaped his life.
Routinely excluded from the mainstream art world, in the 1960s, a group of African American photographers formed a collective to promote their work.
Artists, writers, and special guests gathered at the Ford Foundation on May 10 to launch a landmark issue of Aperture.
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.
