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12 Photobooks That Celebrate Black Voices and History

From Arielle Bobb-Willis’s vividly playful tableaux to Ernest Cole’s incisive photographs of America in the late 1960s, here are essential titles to read this Black history month.

Deana Lawson Guest Edits Aperture Magazine’s Fall Issue

“Arrhythmic Mythic Ra” draws from artists past and present to explore the enigmatic nature of photography.

13 Photobooks that Highlight Black Lives and Artistic Visions

From monographs by Awol Erizku and Deana Lawson, to collections on fashion, community, and power, here are essential titles to read this Black History Month.

9 Inspiring Photobooks by Contemporary Women Photographers

From Justine Kurland’s imagined runaways to Wendy Red Star’s feminist, Indigenous perspective, here are essential titles by today’s leading artists.

11 Essential Photobooks for Black History Month

From monographs by Ming Smith and Deana Lawson to compendiums about activism and fashion, here are must-read books that envision Black lives.

15 Essential Photobooks by Women Photographers

From landmark volumes by Diane Arbus and Nan Goldin to modern classics by Deana Lawson, Rinko Kawauchi, Justine Kurland, and more.

The Black Photographers Rethinking What History Is All About

In these 11 photobooks from Kwame Brathwaite to Deana Lawson, artists envision beauty and poetry, fashion and resistance.

8 Photobooks by Contemporary Women Photographers

From Justine Kurland’s imagined runaways to Deana Lawson’s dramatic portraiture, here are essential titles by today’s leading artists.

12 Inspiring Photobooks by Women Photographers

From seminal first monographs by Diane Arbus and Nan Goldin to modern classics by Deana Lawson, Rinko Kawauchi and more.

What Makes a Family?

An exhibition explores how black photographers portray their communities and kin.

Vision & Justice Online: Nicole R. Fleetwood on Prison Portraits

In America’s sprawling correctional system, how do prisoners and their families represent themselves though photography?

Vision & Justice Online: Deana Lawson and Nikki A. Greene in Conversation about the Emanuel 9

One year after the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, a photographer speaks about her powerful portraits of the victims’ families.

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Aperture No. 257

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.

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