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A new exhibition reconsiders the legendary photographer’s fashion and portrait work.

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A rising photography star bridges the divide between art and fashion.

The PhotoBook as a Literary Form

Teju Cole’s first photobook unfolds the possibilities of text and image.

Beauty in the Eye of the Storm

Inside the ACLU, two trans artists stage a secret photo shoot—and question the attitudes of liberal institutions.
Walker Evans, Resort Photographer at Work, 1941

Walker Evans, Hero of the Vernacular Style

A landmark exhibition argues that the photographer’s approach to image making goes far beyond documentary.

Gender Is a Playground

Zackary Drucker and Kate Bornstein discuss pioneers, politics, and the next frontier in gender expression.
Walter Pfeiffer, Untitled, 2001

The Cult of Walter Pfeiffer

Delighting in male beauty and gender play, a prolific Swiss photographer reinvented the rules of attraction.

Time and Again

A new exhibition spotlights Nicholas Nixon’s preoccupation with the elusive passage of time.

Trans Lives Illuminated

Since the 1970s, Mariette Pathy Allen has photographed the lives of trans and gender nonconforming people around the world.

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A color photograph of a Muslim man in a black coat and red scarf

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Mahtab Hussain’s tender portraits question the image of South Asian Muslim men in Britain.

The Queen Unleashed

Lyle Ashton Harris’s archive offers a glimpse of a queer, black ’90s.

Wayne Sorce's Nostalgic America

In 1970s-era New York and Chicago, a uniquely American sensibility.

In Kashmir, Hope Blooms

Bharat Sikka offers a poetic portrait of a disputed region.

Michael Marcelle's Surreal New Jersey

How Hurricane Sandy set the tone for an uncanny photobook.

Why Aren’t There Any Famous Asian American Photographers?

Three young photographers discuss the histories, struggles, and complexities of making photographs in America today.

A Mouthwatering History of Photography

From subtle to surreal, here are eleven innovative ways that artists have pictured food.

Across a Racial Divide, Images of Daily Life under Apartheid

An innovative book juxtaposes images from the archives of two South African families—one black, and one white.
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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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