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Wildly prolific, the late French writer was driven, compulsive, and rarely satisfied—and his own little-known photographs remain as elusive as ever.
An exhibition at the Jewish Museum shows how the American magazine has been a force since the 1930s, with photography defining the “modern look” of a new era.
What does an insatiable collector do when all of New York’s bookstores and markets are closed?
A recent forum at MoMA reveals a rich, often-overlooked thread of queer history and photography.
Vince Aletti recalls Tomorrow’s Man, Peter Hujar, James Dean, and the thrill of discovering queer pictures.
Alongside Aperture magazine #218, “Queer,” we look at this overlooked, often purposefully obscured, area of photographic history.
In memory of Amiri Baraka, Aperture republishes Vince Aletti’s article on Baraka’s 1970 book, In Our Terribleness.
The thirty books shortlisted for the 2013 awards were announced Sept. 20 in New York.
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.
