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A Photographer’s Search for Acceptance in the Landscapes of Ohio

Blake Jacobsen’s images of family life and hair-care rituals offer a quiet rumination on queerness, masculinity, and working-class labor.
Walker Evans, Independence Day, Terra Alta, West Virginia, 1935

A New Look at Walker Evans

In her recent book, Svetlana Alpers explores the cultural figures that influenced Evans’s renowned photographs.

Judith Black’s All-American Summer Vacation

In 1986, Black photographed her family as they drove across the United States, recording the touchstones of life with intimate precision.

William Gedney’s Timelessly Intimate Photographs of San Francisco in the 1960s

A new publication of Gedney’s work shows why his lyrical images deserve a closer look.

Michael Jang's American Dream

The photographer revisits his deeply funny and idiosyncratic images of suburbs, celebrities, and California in the 1970s.

A Human Cartography of Collective Struggles

In his recent photobook, Martín Weber negotiates the past and the future in Latin America.

Paolo Di Paolo’s Paradise Found

An Italian photographer of Hollywood stars, now in his 90s, finally makes his debut.
Ray K. Metzker, 63 CM-12, Early Philadelphia, 1963

Collapsing Time and Space in Black and White

Ray K. Metzker spent his career exploring the boundaries of photography in order to break them.

Time and Again

A new exhibition spotlights Nicholas Nixon’s preoccupation with the elusive passage of time.

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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.