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Walker Evans, Resort Photographer at Work, 1941

Walker Evans, Hero of the Vernacular Style

A landmark exhibition argues that the photographer’s approach to image making goes far beyond documentary.

Lynne Tillman on Brush Fires in the Social Landscape

In this excerpt from Brush Fires in the Social Landscape, Lynne Tillman reflects on the work and life of David Wojnarowicz

'Picasso and the Camera' Opens at Gagosian Gallery

A new exhibition at Gagosian Gallery features hundreds of works that explore Picasso’s relationship to the camera.

Photo.edu: Toward a New Curriculum by Arthur Ou

What is photographic education today? The question elicits a wave of differing, often contesting answers.

The Image World Is Flat: Penelope Umbrico in conversation with Virginia Rutledge

Penelope Umbrico speaks with art historian and intellectual-property lawyer Virginia Rutledge about the use of reproductions in our increasingly flattened image world.

Swiping at Pictures

Curator Christopher Y. Lew discusses our changing relationship to technology and to the Internet.

Photography at Novartis AG

Melissa Harris spoke with Daniel Vasella, then of Novartis AG, to understand both his passion and his criteria for commissioning photography.

Lingua Photographica

Brooklyn-based writer and curator Gene McHugh dissects photography’s role within the real world and the virtual world.

Jeff Wall and Lucas Blalock: A Conversation on Pictures

Jeff Wall speaks with Lucas Blalock about the current state of the medium, his recent work, and the freedom of the artist.

Dispatches: Jason Fulford on San Francisco

It’s been a year now since I drove from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to San Francisco and let the…

Andrew Norman Wilson with Laurel Ptak: ScanOps

Andrew Norman Wilson speaks with curator Laurel Ptak about the ScanOps project.

Nine Years, A Million Conceptual Miles – By Charlotte Cotton

Charlotte Cotton discusses a wave of photographic innovation.

On Process and Color

Aperture speaks with the curator and a participating artist in Color Shift, a show that explores and revisits modernism’s reductive approach to medium, material, and color.

Aperture Magazine's 2013 Relaunch

The cover of Aperture’s Spring 2013 issue is a detail from a photograph by artist Christopher Williams.

Zoe Crosher: Stage Manager

The Los Angeles–based photographer Zoe Crosher has had quite a big year. Carmen Winant spoke with the artist about her work.

Anders Petersen – Finding a Fever

From Aperture 198: Anders Petersen and JH Engström discuss the work that would become Petersen’s City Diary.

Barney Kulok – Building: Louis I. Kahn at Roosevelt Island – Now Available

A new photobook by Barney Kulok now available in our online store.

Alec Soth on Influence, Summer Nights, and Allen Ginsberg

Soth speaks with Aperture Remix curator Lesley A. Martin about infuences on his work.
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Aperture 254

This spring, Aperture presents “Counter Histories,” an issue produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation and informed by their ongoing Counter Histories grant initiative, featuring artists from around the world who tell new stories about how the past informs the present.