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How Arielle Bobb-Willis Keeps Her Inner Kid Alive

The rising art and fashion photographer’s debut monograph is a vivid statement about color, gesture, and style.

How Photography Influenced Duro Olowu’s Life in Fashion

From album covers to Yves Saint Laurent, the London-based designer’s curiosity is limitless—and his deep knowledge of photography has informed his way of seeing the world.

The World Is Martin Parr’s Runway

The Magnum legend has fixed his irreverent gaze on high fashion for nearly thirty years—but don’t call him a fashion photographer.

Juergen Teller on Life, Love, and Three Decades in Fashion

On the occasion of his career-spanning exhibition in Paris, the influential photographer reflects on the boundaries between art and commerce.

How Steven Meisel Defined Fashion in 1993

A rare exhibition of the influential photographer’s work highlights one year of prodigious creativity.

An Artist’s Clever Reuse of the Fashion Image

In his collaborative multimedia project “The Repros,” Jojo Gronostay poses a timely critique of clothing brands, global trade, and neocolonialism.

How Irving Penn and Issey Miyake Redefined the Fashion Photograph

The creative exchange between two titans gave clothing a voice of its own.
Sibylle Bergemann, Frieda, Berlin, 1982

Sibylle Bergemann’s Striking Photographs of Postwar Germany

Working in fashion and reportage, the photographer cultivated a distinctive visual language. Her retrospective is a window into history in Berlin.

Searching for an Indigenous Fashion Star, Martine Gutierrez Casts Herself

With her self-made magazine, the Latinx artist challenges notions of gender and cultural identity.

Fashion Photography in the #MeToo Era

Are fashion photographers responsible for producing truthful images?

On the Front Lines of Art and Fashion

Aperture Foundation announces the five finalists for the New Vanguard Photography Prize.
A.P.C. Fall/Winter 2015

From A.P.C., an “Owner’s Manual” for Minimalist Fashion

The French brand’s new book is a collage of postcards, snapshots, and influential commissions.

10 Photographers Who Celebrate Black Identity through Fashion

These photographers show how “dandy” style shatters stereotypes around the world.

On Nick Waplington/Alexander McQueen: Working Process at Tate Britain

Tate Britain’s first-ever exhibition to focus on a living photographer features the work of Nick Waplington

Fashion Film & the Photographic by Marketa Uhlirova

Marketa Uhlirova on fashion films that push the boundaries of photography.

The Icons by Inez & Vinoodh

Guest editors Inez & Vinoodh on some of fashion photography’s giants whose work has influenced theirs.

Aperture #216 – Editors' Note

From the Fall 2014 issue of Aperture Magazine, #216, “Fashion”, guest-editors Inez & Vinoodh.

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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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