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In the 1960s, Jet magazine captured African American life with grace and power. For an influential screenwriter, one cover was personal.
In 1958, Inge Morath set out to document the cultures of Central and Eastern Europe. Spanning four decades, her monumental project was the quest of a lifetime.
Is the trade in precious fossils the next frontier of Moroccan tourism—or just a ruse?
Ishikawa Naoki traveled around Japan over ten years, depicting canted colorful scenes of everyday life.
As a preview of the upcoming Summer issue, two groundbreaking filmmakers speak about diversity and inclusion in Hollywood–now a national conversation.
No matter the topic—beauty, family, politics, power—the quest for a legacy of photographic representation of African Americans has been about vision and justice.
As a preview of the upcoming Summer issue, Sarah Lewis and Dagmawi Woubshet speak with a visionary filmmaker who explores African and African American narratives.
Vittorio Sella combined his passions of photography and mountaineering to capture the elevated beauty of the world’s most inhospitable places.
Crossing the United States in her beat-up van, Justine Kurland pictures America’s tangled sense of itself.
Since 2009, a photography collective has embarked on five road trips across West and Central Africa, creating a kaleidoscopic portrait of everyday life.
In the Spring 2016 issue of Aperture, Simon speaks with Kate Fowle about her ongoing project Black Square.
Aperture editors introduce “Odyssey,” the magazine’s Spring 2016 issue.
A young photographer reports on the odyssey of our time.
From the rush of Niagara Falls to Elizabeth Taylor’s bedroom, a chronicler of American life presents two concurrent exhibitions.
Exploring the symbolism of cultural mythologies and human nature, Torbjørn Rødland is a modern-day surrealist.
With provocative self-portraits from the 1970s, a pioneer of Body Art makes his New York debut.
An award-winning exhibition catalogue examines the power of photography in representing crime, war, and acts of violence.
Renowned for his vivacious snapshots of friends and family, a new exhibition in Amsterdam showcases the early color photographs of a bon vivant.
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.
