In the 1990s, Shya worked as a set photographer for the legendary Hong Kong director. A new book peers behind the scenes of Wong’s films—and into the artist’s own life and travels.
Lyon’s riveting book about a Chicago motorcycle club is one of the definitive accounts of American counterculture—and the inspiration for a new film starring Austin Butler and Jodie Comer.
The artist and filmmaker speaks about Imogen Cunningham, Romy Schneider, and why she built a room-size camera.
The acclaimed director reflects on the ways photography has been central in shaping her distinct cinematic language.
Crewdson and Ambrose are among the Berkshires residents who are actively trying to save a local movie house. “This picture feels really fateful,” notes Crewdson. “It’s been waiting all these years for the right moment.”
In his immense documentaries, Wang depicts the lives of Chinese people with intricate and unsparing detail.
As actors, directors, and communities tell their own stories on-screen, they produce new narratives—and an Indigenous gaze.
With its vivid color, indelible characters, and documentation of a pre-gentrified New York City, Goldin’s photography is a readymade mood board.
From Andy Warhol to Marlon Riggs, MoMA presents film as a radical expression of sexuality and activism.
John Pilson’s latest series reveals an uncanny resemblance between the U.S. president and Stanley Kubrick’s failed novelist.
A series at BAM attempts to make a canon of cinema for a generation more interested in dismantling them.
How Chuck Shacochis made Edward Furlong into an art star.
Throughout his career, photographs and family narratives have been at the center of Thomas Allen Harris’s films.
An artist considers the psychological ramifications of media images.
An artist and filmmaker contends with Iranian identity.
In two recent films, Kahlil Joseph and Arthur Jafa consider the poetics of African American life.
In photographs and a new film, RaMell Ross offers a poetic vision of Southern life.
How do filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard and Sofia Coppola translate moving images to the printed page?
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.
