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Marianne Wex’s Study of Gender and Power in Images

The German artist surveyed advertisements, reportage, fashion, and art history, assembling a remarkable report on human gestures.

David Benjamin Sherry, Manorathadayakas, 2008

What “Greater New York” Got Right about Photography in the Age of Instagram

In 2010, photography was at a turning point. How did an ambitious survey at MoMA PS1 anticipate a generation of artists who define the field today?

Naima Green’s Ode to Fleeting Pleasures

At the beach, at a party, or at home, the photographer imagines a world of queer intimacy and community.
Nydia Blas, Group #2, 2016

The Photographer Who Spins Black Girls’ Lives into Gold

After moving from New York to Atlanta, Nydia Blas adopts a magical outlook as a tool for resilience.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Avedon with Carmel Snow and Marie-Louise Bousquet, Dior Showroom, ca. 1946

Who Was Richard Avedon?

Avedon transformed notions of style, celebrity, and photography itself. A new book by Philip Gefter argues for his place among the most important artists of the twentieth century.

15 Photographers on How Imagination Shapes Their Work

Dawoud Bey, Nan Goldin, KangHee Kim and more reflect on the photograph’s potential to influence social and artistic images.

Sister Corita Kent, Mary’s Day Procession, 1964

The Nun Who Became a Pop Art Activist

In the 1960s, Sister Corita Kent made photographs and silk-screen posters that crackled with energy at a time of unrest.

Announcing the 2020 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist

Celebrating the evolving narrative of the photobook, Paris Photo and Aperture, in partnership with DELPIRE & CO, are excited to announce the 35 selected titles for this year’s shortlist.

Can Photographs Provide Information When Truth Is Disrupted?

Meet the photographers who are examining globalization, technology, politics, and the dynamic changes to social identity today.

7 Essential Japanese Photobooks

From Eikoh Hosoe to Rinko Kawauchi, here are collaborations, meditations, and poetic reflections on time and the natural world.

Gus Aronson’s Tokens of New York in the Age of Isolation

In a new series made in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx, the photographer searches for signs that could be taken for wonders.

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A Photographer’s Personal Account of the Protests in Richmond

In Virginia, Christopher “Puma” Smith engaged with the debates around removing Confederate statues. But is he hopeful about the US?

The Photographer Whose Mother Built Trump Tower

Res searches for bonds between people, from the family household to community protest.

What a Portrait of an Iranian Surfer Reveals about Western Fantasies of the Middle East

The Italian photographer Giulia Frigieri wanted to profile a young Iranian surfer. But there was more to the story than her images revealed.

How Digital Platforms Celebrate Black Photographers and the African Diaspora

Campbell Addy and Jamal Nxedlana speak about building international audiences for Black art, culture, and fashion.

Samuel Fosso and the Invention of the Artist as a Young Photographer

In an interview for his new monograph, Fosso spoke with the late curator Okwui Enwezor about his teenage self-portraits and how all his work concerns the question of power.

How Yurie Nagashima’s Self-Portraits Interrogate the Male Gaze

In her latest photobook, the Japanese photographer discusses self-portraiture as a radical feminist gesture.

Introducing: Muge

Since 2004, the Chinese photographer has captured the displacement of over a million people caused by the Three Gorges Dam.
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Aperture Releases “Counter Histories,” Produced with Magnum Foundation Spring Issue Presents Photographers Who Uncover Personal and Political Histories (New York—March 6, 2024) What creative possibilities are offered by the gaps, absences, and silences in historical records? This spring, Aperture magazine presents “Counter Histories,” an issue produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation and informed by their…