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Dorothea Lange and the Afterlife of Photographs

A new exhibition reveals how Lange’s concern for the dispossessed has never been more relevant.
Gregory Halpern, detail from Omaha Sketchbook, 2019

A Chronicle of Midwestern Masculinity

Gregory Halpern’s newest photobook is a nuanced portrait of golden-hour Omaha.

Okwui Enwezor Pioneered a New Kind of Global Exhibition

Through ambitious shows staged around the world, the curator raised the profile of African art and photography.

Peter d’Agostino Wields the Film Still Like a Scalpel

An artist considers the psychological ramifications of media images.
Cover of Richard Avedon and James Baldwin’s Nothing Personal (New York: Atheneum, 1964)

Vision & Justice Online: Nothing Personal

Was Richard Avedon and James Baldwin’s collaborative photobook a luxury object or a ruthless indictment of American culture?

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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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