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A Historic Archive’s Nightmarish Portrait of America

A new book reimagines the Depression-era photography of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks, mapping a country of strangers and ghosts.

What Does It Mean to Collaborate in Photography?

A new book challenges the idea of the solitary genius, investigating photography’s potential as a community action shaped by power.

At a Photography Festival in Houston, History Confronts the Present

The complex, finely calibrated messages of the FotoFest Biennial provoke difficult questions about what art can actually do for society beyond illustration.

“To Show Our World Now”: The Midcentury Photographers Who Balanced Reportage with Artistry

From W. Eugene Smith to Dorothea Lange, photography in the 1950s and ’60s was alive with the tensions between record and metaphor.

5 Depression-Era Photographs That Galvanized Social Change

From Dorothea Lange to Walker Evans, the FSA photographers of the 1930s shaped a vision of the world transformed by economic crisis.

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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.

The Inspiring, Contested Legacy of Dorothea Lange

A major retrospective surveys the photographer’s career and social activism.

9 Photographers Picturing Motherhood

These photographers illuminate truths about the experience of motherhood.

On the Edge of the American Dream

How have West Coast photographers subverted the mythology of California?

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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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