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A Sartorial Chronicle of Moroccan Youth Culture

Blending fashion and art, Sophia El Bahja’s photographs showcase the diversity of Morocco.

Fashion Photography’s AI Reckoning

When a J.Crew campaign was revealed to be made with AI, fans of the brand felt betrayed. But the fashion industry has always had an elastic relationship with the truth.

“Superfine” Unpacks Self-Expression, Resistance, and Status Through Black Style

Elizabeth Way, Kimberly Jenkins, and Ekow Eshun consider what it means to be a Black dandy—and how the figure functions in diasporic culture and history.

Ike Edeani’s Quest for Sartorial Flair

Roaming Harlem on the cusp of summer, the photographer finds New Yorkers abounding in Sunday-best dazzle.

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Black Style as a Form of Resistance and Joy

For Aperture’s summer issue, “Liberated Threads,” guest editor Tanisha C. Ford explores fashion’s ability to create possibilities for solidarity and selfhood across the African diaspora.

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.
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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.

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Aperture Magazine

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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