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?
From Zanele Muholi’s radical statements of identity to Nan Goldin’s iconic visual diary, Aperture highlights artists whose work illuminates LGBTQ+ perspectives.
A long-overdue exhibition expands the canon of gay photography.
Mark McKnight’s black-and-white images of bodies and landscapes challenge Eurocentric ideas about male beauty—and aim to make “straight” photography a little less straight.
Reclaiming domestic space through installations in his parents’ home, Guanyu Xu explores queer identity and censorship across China and the US.
In her first retrospective, Lola Flash celebrates queer legacies through vibrant portraiture.
From the underground art star, a delicate picture of youth.
Lyle Ashton Harris’s archive offers a glimpse of a queer, black ’90s.
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.
