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What is a Feminist Photobook?

Carmen Winant on feminism, photobooks, and the radical gestures of world-building.

On the Cover: Wolfgang Tillmans Guest Edits Aperture's "Spirituality" Issue

How can photography represent humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity?

An Index of Mexico City’s Skin

Pablo López Luz traces volcanic rock from the days of the Aztecs to the rise of modernist architecture.

15 Photographers Reveal What’s Hidden in Their Work

What does a photographer see that is otherwise hidden?

Down and Out on the West Side Piers

Alvin Baltrop made an indelible record of gay life in New York before AIDS. But why is a queer, Black artist’s work only valuable after his death?

A History of Violence

Maya Goded and Mayra Martell speak about how photographers can represent Mexico’s disappeared.

Spiral City

In the 1990s, a group of inventive young artists remade Mexico’s capital as a backdrop for experiments in photography, film, and performance.

A Lesson in Art History from Hiroshi Sugimoto

What do modern masterworks look like in black and white?

In Sigmar Polke's Experimental Images, the Negative is "Never Finished"

A striking exhibition in Paris revisits the treasures and dreams hidden beneath the German artist’s unorthodox photographs.

All That Glitters is Fool's Gold

From the gold rush to e-waste, Lisa Barnard’s new photobook offers a visual biography of a precious commodity.

How to Map a Territory that You Don’t Own

Mitch Epstein discusses Standing Rock, the American flag, and the moment he saw Mount Rushmore cry.

Tommy Kha Isn’t Kissing You Back

The Memphis-born photographer navigates performative intimacy, the legacy of the Mississippi Delta Chinese, and the pitfalls of visual language for queer Asian men.

At Mariane Ibrahim's New Chicago Gallery, an Otherworldly Portrait Series

Ayana V. Jackson’s exhibition of radically speculative character portraits inaugurates the midwest home of a leading American gallery.
Gregory Halpern, detail from Omaha Sketchbook, 2019

A Chronicle of Midwestern Masculinity

Gregory Halpern’s newest photobook is a nuanced portrait of golden-hour Omaha.

Heji Shin’s Penetrating Gaze

The provocative photographer trains her eye on childbirth, gay sex, and Kanye West.

Michael Jang's American Dream

The photographer revisits his deeply funny and idiosyncratic images of suburbs, celebrities, and California in the 1970s.

Graciela Iturbide’s Dreams and Visions

The life and work of Latin America’s most revered photographer.

Agenda: 4 Photography Exhibitions to See in Fall 2019

From Duane Michals’s first New York retrospective to the swinging nightlife of London’s Soho, here are this fall’s must-see exhibitions.
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Aperture No. 257

Aperture presents “Image Worlds to Come: Photography & AI,” a timely and urgent issue that explores how artificial intelligence is quickly transforming the field of photography and our broader culture of images.

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