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Vision & Justice Online: She Walked in Beauty

In the 1960s, Jet magazine captured African American life with grace and power. For an influential screenwriter, one cover was personal.

Adventure on the Danube

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.

Along the Dinosaur Road: A Conversation with Yto Barrada

Is the trade in precious fossils the next frontier of Moroccan tourism—or just a ruse?

Black Lives, Silver Screen: Ava DuVernay and Bradford Young in Conversation

As a preview of the upcoming Summer issue, two groundbreaking filmmakers speak about diversity and inclusion in Hollywood–now a national conversation.

Vision & Justice: Guest Editor’s Note

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.

Love Visual: A Conversation with Haile Gerima

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.

Higher Ground

Vittorio Sella combined his passions of photography and mountaineering to capture the elevated beauty of the world’s most inhospitable places.

Highway Kind

Crossing the United States in her beat-up van, Justine Kurland pictures America’s tangled sense of itself.

Open Roads & Invisible Borders

Since 2009, a photography collective has embarked on five road trips across West and Central Africa, creating a kaleidoscopic portrait of everyday life.

Into the Void: Taryn Simon in Conversation with Kate Fowle

In the Spring 2016 issue of Aperture, Simon speaks with Kate Fowle about her ongoing project Black Square.

Odyssey

Aperture editors introduce “Odyssey,” the magazine’s Spring 2016 issue.

On the Cover: A Conversation with Samuel Gratacap

A young photographer reports on the odyssey of our time.

Catherine Opie's American Souvenirs

From the rush of Niagara Falls to Elizabeth Taylor’s bedroom, a chronicler of American life presents two concurrent exhibitions.

Torbjørn Rødland: Inducing Wonder

Exploring the symbolism of cultural mythologies and human nature, Torbjørn Rødland is a modern-day surrealist.

Jürgen Klauke: Transformer

With provocative self-portraits from the 1970s, a pioneer of Body Art makes his New York debut.

Images of Conviction: A Conversation with Diane Dufour and Xavier Barral

An award-winning exhibition catalogue examines the power of photography in representing crime, war, and acts of violence.

Lartigue: Life in Color

Renowned for his vivacious snapshots of friends and family, a new exhibition in Amsterdam showcases the early color photographs of a bon vivant.

Samuel Fosso: Emperor of Africa

Samuel Fosso, a master of theatrical self-portraiture, turns toward the icons of Mao-era China.
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Aperture Magazine No. 261, “The Craft Issue” Cover
Aperture Magazine

Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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