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Samuel Fosso, a master of theatrical self-portraiture, turns toward the icons of Mao-era China.
A new exhibition at Tate Modern explores how performance artists use photography – and how photography is a performance itself.
Portraying the working class, Killip imbues his subjects and scenes with a sense of urgency, mystery, and radiance.
The octogenarian Portuguese artist Helena Almeida was intent on blurring lines: her playful images might be considered paintings, actions, and performative photographs.
Several Lebanese artists, including Walid Raad, have embraced the artist’s talk to unpack history and the limitations of the photograph.
Performances are ephemeral; photographs are permanent. When is an image more than a mere document? How do images bring us closer to an event we never witnessed?
From the Summer 2009 issue of Aperture magazine, Don McCullin speaks about his experience documenting war and conflict with Fred Ritchin.
On the occasion of the launch of the Aperture Digital Archive appears this excerpt an interview with Michael E. Hoffmann from Aperture Issue 129.
The Aperture Digital Archive includes every issue of Aperture magazine since 1952, including rare, early editions.
Aperture magazine’s editors on our Fall 2015 issue and its nine in-depth interviews.
Letters from Sally Mann to Melissa Harris, editor-in-chief of Aperture Foundation, about her portraits and her process, originally published as an interview in Aperture #138.
Nobuyoshi Araki’s Polaroid collages of nudes juxtaposed with flora is one of the Tokyo-based photographer’s latest projects, which appeared in Aperture magazine #219.
Journalist Kenji Takazawa provides an essential guide for your next photographic tour of Japan’s capital.
An excerpt from a portfolio in Aperture magazine #219, Summer 2015, “Tokyo.”
In the new issue of Aperture magazine, Tokyo-based curator Ivan Vartanian offers a look through the pages of the popular magazines of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s.
Aperture magazine’s editors on our Summer 2015 issue and the vast photography landscape in Tokyo.
A conversation with the Johannesburg-based photographer about photography and activism, her latest series, Black Beauties, and her influences.
Aperture magazine’s editors spent three weeks in Tokyo researching and assembling our Summer issue of the magazine, dedicated to photography from Japan.
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.
