Kitsch and pleasure in the information age.
In the late 1970s, Mary Lucier pointed her camera at the sun and broke the rules of a new medium.
The curator of the London gallery Autograph ABP discusses the intersections between photography, human rights, and identity politics.
Laura Israel, director of Don’t Blink–Robert Frank, speaks about the photographer’s life and work.
How has the death of a transgender African American teenager changed the debate around justice in the United States?
Portraying the working class, Killip imbues his subjects and scenes with a sense of urgency, mystery, and radiance.
In an exhibition inspired by Man Ray’s “Dust Breeding,” David Campany charts the strange career of a surrealist photograph.
San Francisco’s Pier 24 Photography recently opened Paul Graham’s exhibition The Whiteness of the Whale, the venue’s first-ever presentation of a single artist.
On the occasion of the launch of the Aperture Digital Archive appears this excerpt an interview with Michael E. Hoffmann from Aperture Issue 129.
The following conversation between Aperture Foundation editor-in-chief, Melissa Harris, and Richard Misrach was recorded at his California studio in March 1992.
Imaginary Club, last year’s winner of PhotoBook of the Year, sold out within months of winning the award. In this video, Sieber talks about what went into his work.
James Mollison and writer Jon Ronson recall their playground memories preceding the opening reception of the “Playground” exhibition at Aperture Gallery in New York.
From Aperture Magazine #147: David Wojnarowicz and Nan Goldin sat down to talk about record, memory, and the evolution of their work.
Doug DuBois and Irish Illustrator Patrick Lynch talk about their collaboration and the resulting comic in My Last Day at Seventeen
Erwin Olaf gives a virtual tour of his most recent photobook, Erwin Olaf: Volume II.
Aperture visits photographer Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao in his Queens, NY studio to discuss his recent monograph.
Joel Meyerowitz reflects on his time on road trips as a photographer.
A conversation with Paul Martineau, curator of Minor White: Manifestations of the Spirit at the J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles
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.