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The Brilliant Light of California’s Beaches

Tod Papageorge speaks about his photographs of skin, swimsuits, sand, and surfboards—and what it’s like bringing a large-format camera to the beaches of Los Angeles.

Barry McGee’s Anarchic Snapshot Vision

A new volume shows how McGee’s photographs record the conspiratorial energy and daring acts of street art, a practice fundamental to his work in painting, drawing, zines, and installation.

Christina Fernandez’s Multifaceted Visions of Life in California

With three exhibitions and a new book, the revered photographer’s study of labor, migration, and capitalism is as vital as ever.

Michael Jang's American Dream

The photographer revisits his deeply funny and idiosyncratic images of suburbs, celebrities, and California in the 1970s.
Sam Contis, Hold Down, 2014

Photographing the Body Electric

Sam Contis’s first photobook revels in the land, skin, and mythologies of the American West.

Larry Sultan’s California Home Theater

In the Bay Area photographer’s retrospective, family, home life, and American suburbia take center stage.

On the Edge of the American Dream

How have West Coast photographers subverted the mythology of California?

The Surreal Landscapes of California City

From the air, photographer Chang Kim discovers a city that never was.

In California, Trees as Witness and Living Memorial

Elizabeth Huber reflects on Ken Gonzales-Day and the history of lynching in California.

Larry Sultan "Here and Home" at LACMA

The late, influential California photographer Larry Sultan has his first retrospective, “Here and Home,” at LACMA.

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Aperture No. 259

Guest edited by Tanisha C. Ford, Liberated Threads explores style and fashion as a language of Black resistance, refusal, and joy. This issue features image-makers who remix and reimagine twentieth-century “soul style,” creating a contemporary dialogue between photographers, filmmakers, and stylists from around the world.

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