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Photographs Do Not Stop Wars

The celebrated photojournalist James Nachtwey has covered global conflicts for four decades. But in his current retrospective, politics is an afterthought.
Akinbode Akinbiyi, Victoria Island, Lagos, 2006

At Documenta, Blurred Lines Between Art and Politics

An ambitious exhibition grapples with the conditions of our time — but can images provoke social change?

America’s Destiny in Pictures

What is the role of the photographer in our new political order? Seven visionaries respond.

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Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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