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From Zanele Muholi’s radical statements of identity to the photographers envisioning trans activism and community, here are must-read titles that celebrate queer voices and stories.
From Wendy Red Star’s feminist, Indigenous perspectives to Kelli Connell’s reconsideration of Edward Weston, here are must-read titles that chronicle the impact of women artists.
From Wolfgang Tillmans and Nan Goldin, to Jamie Hawkesworth’s everyday celebrations and the photographers covering the crisis in Ukraine, here are this year’s highlights in photography and ideas.
Throughout her career, Goldin photographed her friends, her lovers, and the family she made for herself. Her work constitutes an autobiography in several volumes, her life as an episodic tale.
Thirty-five years after the publication of her iconic photobook, Nan Goldin reflects on creating an indelible visual record of her life.
With its vivid color, indelible characters, and documentation of a pre-gentrified New York City, Goldin’s photography is a readymade mood board.
In scenes of striking intimacy, Abdul Kircher searches for the brutal and the tender.
If fashion photography is defined by artifice, why does the industry crave rawness and reality?
How did Nan Goldin’s slideshow with hundreds of images, presented at bars and nightclubs, become an iconic photobook?
How Goldin’s iconic slideshow and book became an enduring model for photographers across ages and around the world.
Nan Goldin, Alec Soth, Jamel Shabazz, and others share the music that comforts, inspires, or makes them move.
From seminal first monographs by Diane Arbus and Nan Goldin to modern classics by Deana Lawson, Rinko Kawauchi and more.
From Zanele Muholi’s radical statements of identity to Nan Goldin’s iconic visual diary, Aperture highlights artists whose work illuminates LGBTQ+ perspectives.
Beat the heat wave with these scenes of poolside splendor.
How has feminist photography changed since the 1970s?
From photography legends to unsung pioneers of decades past, our gift guide to Aperture photobooks by women photographers.
Four exhibitions celebrate feminist artist Ellen Cantor, who explored the subversive potential of female sexuality.
On October 26, Aperture Foundation celebrated photography and Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency with live performances at the annual fall benefit.
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.
