Susan Meiselas

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How Have Photographs Shaped Our Idea of Work?

An exhibition contends with the role of images, policy, and activism in forming our relationship to labor and the American Dream.

15 Inspiring Photobooks by Women Photographers

From the Japanese artists who transformed photography to Tina Barney’s large-scale portraits of the haute bourgeoisie, here are must-read titles this Women’s History Month.

How Susan Meiselas Documented Nicaragua’s Revolution

The photographer reflects on her experience working in Latin America and why it’s essential to revisit a body of work over time.

15 Essential Photobooks by Women Photographers

From landmark volumes by Diane Arbus and Nan Goldin to modern classics by Deana Lawson, Rinko Kawauchi, Justine Kurland, and more.

After 9/11, Do We Prefer Images to Reality?

In three timely new books, David Levi Strauss considers the profound effects that photography, terror, and divisive politics have had on the twenty-first-century imagination.

9 Photographers on Keeping Their Eyes Open to the World around Them

In a new book for young readers, Rinko Kawauchi, Alec Soth, Wendy Red Star, and others speak about how we engage with the world through the camera.

11 Photographers on Seeking the Unexpected in Their Work

Sabiha Çimen, Susan Meiselas, Alex Webb, and more on how happy accidents and unusual turns led to their most memorable images.

When Women Photographers Went to War

From Gerda Taro to Susan Meiselas, a new book examines the ways eight women have expanded the field of war photography.

10 Magnum Photographers on their Obsessions in Images

What keeps a photographer returning to a particular subject, theme, place, or person?

13 Photographers on What Freedom Means to Them

Highlights from the Magnum Square Print Sale

The Many Worlds of Susan Meiselas

A comprehensive exhibition celebrates the photographer’s unique approach to storytelling.

15 Photographers On Their Greatest Journeys

Where can a photograph take you?

13 Essential Photobooks by Women Photographers

From photography legends to unsung pioneers of decades past, our gift guide to Aperture photobooks by women photographers.

On Empathy: 10 Powerful Images from Magnum Photographers

Magnum’s Square Sale features work that explores our collective humanity.

Pushing the Boundaries of Gender Performance

Spanning over eighty years of photographs, an exhibition explores the gender non-conforming potential of the word “they.”

Collaboration: Revisiting the History of Photography Recap

Leading photographers and students reconsider the history of photography from the perspective of collaboration.

Call for Participation: Collaboration – Revisiting the History of Photography

A timeline of collaboration curated by Ariella Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, and Susan Meiselas.

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Aperture Magazine No. 261, “The Craft Issue” Cover
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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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