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Hervé Guibert’s Passionately Restrained Photographs

Wildly prolific, the late French writer was driven, compulsive, and rarely satisfied—and his own little-known photographs remain as elusive as ever.
Frances McLaughlin-Gill, Nan Martin, Street Scene, First Avenue, 1949

The Photographers and Designers Who Transformed American Magazines

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.
Vince Aletti at home in New York, June 2020

What the Photo Critic Vince Aletti Found at Home during Quarantine

What does an insatiable collector do when all of New York’s bookstores and markets are closed?

From Stonewall to AIDS, Framing Queer Desire

A recent forum at MoMA reveals a rich, often-overlooked thread of queer history and photography.

Queer Photography: A Reflection

Vince Aletti recalls Tomorrow’s Man, Peter Hujar, James Dean, and the thrill of discovering queer pictures.

On Physique Magazine Photography

Alongside Aperture magazine #218, “Queer,” we look at this overlooked, often purposefully obscured, area of photographic history.

Vince Aletti on Amiri Baraka's In Our Terribleness

In memory of Amiri Baraka, Aperture republishes Vince Aletti’s article on Baraka’s 1970 book, In Our Terribleness.

Announcing The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Shortlist Selections

The thirty books shortlisted for the 2013 awards were announced Sept. 20 in New York.

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Aperture 254

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…