Maia Silber reflects on photographer Gordon Parks, the infamous “doll tests” of the 1940s, and segregation.
Merging football with twentieth-century sharecropping, Hank Willis Thomas traces the commodification of black bodies.
How do Bruce Davidson’s photographs of the Selma march in 1965 find their echo in the modern debate over voter ID laws?
Introducing Tania Franco Klein, the winner of Aperture’s Instagram contest honoring William Eggleston.
Judith Joy Ross reflects on her portraits from opposing ends of the political spectrum.
Magnum’s Square Sale features work that explores our collective humanity.
In the late 1940s, the photographer’s photographer reveled in the contradictory energies of urban life.
In his first museum retrospective, Anthony Hernandez finds melancholy beauty in a city of contrasts.
Spanning over eighty years of photographs, an exhibition explores the gender non-conforming potential of the word “they.”
Justine Kurland crossed the United States in a weathered van, pursuing a chronicle of American Drifters.
Four exhibitions celebrate feminist artist Ellen Cantor, who explored the subversive potential of female sexuality.
In the era of Black Lives Matter, what is the legacy of the Black Panther Party? Stephen Shames revisits his chronicle of American activism.
In his new memoir, the critic Douglas Crimp revisits the origins of the Pictures Generation, a fabled era of art, sex, and experimentation.
In his latest series, Mitch Epstein reveals the natural world within the urban grid.
In Cape Verde, a Portuguese photographer documents the trans community with candid intimacy.
From modern dance to postwar portraits, here are this fall’s must-see exhibitions in New York.
On the rooftops of Egypt’s capital, photographers reclaim the urban landscape.
Award-winning poet Claudia Rankine reflects on the intricate drawings of Toyin Ojih Odutola.
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.
