The photographer speaks with his brother, the journalist Jake Halpern, about growing up in a city of surreal sights and memorable characters.
A prolific chronicler of the Beat Generation writers in New York and San Francisco, Mitchell also photographed Harlem street scenes and Black beauty shops. Why has his impressive body of work remained unknown?
In the 1950s, no U.S. publisher would touch Klein’s photobook about the city. But six decades later, his teeming vision of New York has become an icon of postwar popular culture.
Ugo Mulas captured the swinging 1960s art world defined by Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg.
The civil rights-era photographs of Louis Draper and Leonard Freed shed light on the complex lives of African Americans.
On the streets of New York, murals strike back against police brutality.
Known for building his own cameras, John Chiara speaks about transforming New York into a colorful, otherworldly landscape.
An exhibition of August Sander’s prints, made by his son, Gunther, features some of the most iconic portraits of the twentieth century.
Photography exhibitions around New York City.
A new exhibition at Hasted Kraeutler in New York features the portrait photography of Martin Schoeller.
A new exhibition at Gagosian Gallery features hundreds of works that explore Picasso’s relationship to the camera.
A new exhibition at New York’s Team Gallery, titled “ghost outfit,” considers the work of Ralph Eugene Meatyard.
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao in conversation with Sean Corcoran on Liao’s Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao: New York.
In New York? Artist David Horvitz wants to photograph you pretending to be sad or depressed.
Another New York, featuring fifteen Brooklyn-based photographers, is now on view at the Barclays Center.
“I wanted to discover, through the use of images and objects, a way to translate my original experience of these European sites.”
Luigi Ghirri’s short written exposé on his sources for inspiration. This essay was included in Aperture’s 2008 volume It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It.
Emily Haas Davidson and Bruce Davidson in conversation on their latest project, Bobby’s Book.
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.
