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A Portrait of the Socialites as Bright Young Things

In Cecil Beaton’s glittering world, everyone was dressed up with somewhere to go.

A Land of Their Own

In the 1970s, Meadow Muska documented the feminist collectives that offered a new definition of home for hundreds of women.

Dorothea Lange and the Afterlife of Photographs

A new exhibition reveals how Lange’s concern for the dispossessed has never been more relevant.

Is African Photography a State of Mind?

In a biennial and two recent photobooks, artists consider the postcolonial African subject through intriguingly intimate images.

A Visual Record of Black Lives, Four Decades After Emancipation

A new book revisits W.E.B. Du Bois’s landmark 1900 exhibition on Black American identity.

What It Takes to Be a Photo Editor

For TIME magazine’s editor at large, photography is about speaking truth to the world.

The Photographer’s Playlist

Nan Goldin, Alec Soth, Jamel Shabazz, and others share the music that comforts, inspires, or makes them move.

A Searing Exhibition Charts the History of Abortion

Through photographs, historical documents, and recent interviews, Laia Abril presents the case that abortion is here to stay, whether it’s legal or not.

Are Virtual Viewing Rooms the Future of Photography?

With museums and galleries closed, the touch-screen world is the only one we have.

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For Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Books Are a Way to Think About Time

The LA-based artist speaks about the process of editing—and the role that bookmaking has played in the evolution of his work.

How to Be a Photographer Right Now

Three artists confront how COVID-19 has changed their lives and work—and how they see the world.

In Mexico City, a Visual Archive of AIDS Activism

What does an exhibition about Mexico’s response to the HIV epidemic reveal about the connections between art and public health?
Kenji Wong, Hello darkness, my old friend, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, 2019

How Are Young Photographers Documenting the Protests in Hong Kong?

Beyond the tear gas and the front lines, these Hong Kong photographers have found new ways to represent the city’s political crisis.

The Light All Around Us

In his 1970s photographs from Colorado, Robert Adams finds the beauty and emotion in everyday homes.
Fumi Ishino, from the series Loom, Japan, 2018

In Japan, a Photographer Finds There’s No Stranger Place than Home

Fumi Ishino’s photographs ask what happens when a house becomes unfamiliar.

What Happens When the American Dream of Homeownership Reaches Mexico?

For more than a decade, Alejandro Cartagena has photographed Mexican suburbs transformed by the rapid construction of new homes.

11 Photographers on How to Finish a Body of Work

When should you bring a photographic project to an end?
Denise Scott Brown, Philadelphia, November 2019

Denise Scott Brown on the Signs and Symbols for Living

For the acclaimed architect, photography has always been a central approach to design.
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Aperture Releases “Counter Histories,” Produced with Magnum Foundation Spring Issue Presents Photographers Who Uncover Personal and Political Histories (New York—March 6, 2024) What creative possibilities are offered by the gaps, absences, and silences in historical records? This spring, Aperture magazine presents “Counter Histories,” an issue produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation and informed by their…