Gillian Wearing

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Gillian Wearing, Me: Me, 1991

Gillian Wearing Channels a Spiritual History of Photography

In her first major US retrospective, the acclaimed British artist reveals the breadth of her ambition, charting a far-reaching constellation of ideas about social identity and gender performance.

A Portrait of the Artist as Claude Cahun

Ahead of her new exhibition in London, Gillian Wearing speaks about Claude Cahun, self-portraiture, and feminist icons.

In Performance

Vicki Goldberg reviews two exhibitions at the Addison Gallery in Andover, Massachusetts.

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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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