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How Can Image-Makers Open Up AI’s Mysterious “Black Box”?

To mitigate the crushing sameness of AI imagery, two researchers are turning to photographs made during the Great Depression.

Charlie Engman Transforms the Internet’s Murk into Art

Engman’s experiments with AI offer an indelible collection of “cursed images” inspired by a feeling of being nostalgic for the present.

Aperture’s Must-Read Photography Features of 2023

From Juergen Teller and Mary Manning to the debates around AI’s influence on image-making, here are this year’s highlights in photography and ideas.

What Was the NFT?

When cryptocurrency was on the rise, entrepreneurial artists and prominent photographers rushed to release NFTs. But is the NFT actually a medium—or merely a medium of exchange?

How Will AI Transform Photography?

As artists experiment with this fast-evolving technology, they uncover creative opportunity, absurdity, and bias.
Ignacio Acosta, Computer Aid, 2015

What Is the Environmental Cost of Photography?

From the daguerreotype to the iPhone, “Mining Photography” explores how the exploitation of labor and the environment has always shadowed the medium’s history.

Hannah Whitaker’s Images About Technology and Anxiety at the Turn of the Millennium

In a series of photographs that conceal or duplicate human forms, Whitaker imagines how the digital revolution has fragmented everyday experience and meaning.

Are We All Cyborgs?

From biohacking to vitamins, photographer Matthieu Gafsou’s latest series questions the relationship between human bodies and technology.

Photo.edu: Toward a New Curriculum by Arthur Ou

What is photographic education today? The question elicits a wave of differing, often contesting answers.

Interview with Owen Kydd

The moment when still cameras began to include decent video options not only democratized filmmaking, but also marks the history of still images.

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Aperture No. 259

Guest edited by Tanisha C. Ford, Liberated Threads explores style and fashion as a language of Black resistance, refusal, and joy. This issue features image-makers who remix and reimagine twentieth-century “soul style,” creating a contemporary dialogue between photographers, filmmakers, and stylists from around the world.

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