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From monographs by Awol Erizku and Deana Lawson, to collections on fashion, community, and power, here are essential titles to read this Black History Month.
Smith and Murff—both published by Aperture—are among five honorees at ICP’s 2023 Infinity Awards
From monographs by Ming Smith and Deana Lawson to compendiums about activism and fashion, here are must-read books that envision Black lives.
In these 11 photobooks from Kwame Brathwaite to Deana Lawson, artists envision beauty and poetry, fashion and resistance.
In the 1970s, Smith immersed herself in jazz music, producing images with her signature poetic blur—and exploring what Tate and Jafa call the “maroon fugitivity” of Black postmodern life.
Smith’s images from the Hill District in Pittsburgh, the neighborhood immortalized by Wilson’s plays, evoke the rhythms of everyday Black life.
In the 1970s, a group of photographers made poetic, affirmative representations of Black life. But why did most museums fail to recognize or validate their efforts?
Behind the scenes of the Brooklyn Museum’s landmark exhibition about revolutionary feminist artists.
From protest images to the poetics of architecture, here are this winter’s must-see photography exhibitions in New York.
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.
