What is the role of the photographer in our new political order? Seven visionaries respond.
When Fidel Castro died in November, photographer Noah Friedman-Rudovsky followed the final journey of Cuba’s comandante.
The French artist’s most recent work explores the dark side of pop culture and beauty.
How a small, liberal-arts college became a birthplace of modern photography.
Constructing sets that look functional but are intentionally useless, an artist parodies the seamless illusion of images.
Three celebrated photographers push the limits of sexuality and surveillance.
In photographs, our readers reimagine society’s portrayal of black men and boys.
How has feminist photography changed since the 1970s?
From protest images to the poetics of architecture, here are this winter’s must-see photography exhibitions in New York.
Amid the overwhelming barrage of news and ideas online, can an image change anything?
Is the U.S.-Mexico border a political calculation or a humanitarian crisis?
In Europe and the United States, Stéphane Duroy charts the course of “big” history.
Jo Spence rejected categorizing labels of her work and practice and preferred to wander.
The influential photographer, who once worked for JCPenney’s, riffs on nostalgic Americana.
Marilyn Minter brings her brand of glittery feminism to the Brooklyn Museum.
What role have images played in our collective memory of protest?
In the late 1970s, Mary Lucier pointed her camera at the sun and broke the rules of a new medium.
In his staged, gel-lit nudes, Jimmy DeSana explored the body as object.
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.
