Aperture’s executive director, who steps down in May 2021, speaks about his career in photography and how images impact our lives beyond the appreciation of art.
How have photographs defined a transformative presidency?
Download the curriculum, including thirty-one texts on topics ranging from civic space and memorials to the intersections of race, technology, and justice.
Theaster Gates revisits the legendary archives of the Johnson Publishing Company.
In September 1963, six children were killed in racially motivated violence in Alabama. Fifty years later, Dawoud Bey pays tribute to a community’s resilience.
Zoe Leonard’s retrospective investigates the politics of image making.
How do photographs tell the story of citizenship in the United States?
Jessica Lynne speaks with photographer Devin Allen about his new book “A Beautiful Ghetto.”
Five reflections on the relationship between photography, citizenship, and the law.
A photograph of a bloody hand on a police shield underscores the ongoing struggle for African American citizenship.
In protest of policing black women and girls’ hair, Solange’s album cover image is a powerful assertion of ownership.
Carrie Mae Weems’s feminist vision has never been more timely.
Amid the fight for desegregation, a revelatory portrait by Robert Frank conveys the freedom of travel.
Elizabeth Huber reflects on Ken Gonzales-Day and the history of lynching in California.
Maia Silber reflects on photographer Gordon Parks, the infamous “doll tests” of the 1940s, and segregation.
Merging football with twentieth-century sharecropping, Hank Willis Thomas traces the commodification of black bodies.
How do Bruce Davidson’s photographs of the Selma march in 1965 find their echo in the modern debate over voter ID laws?
In the era of Black Lives Matter, what is the legacy of the Black Panther Party? Stephen Shames revisits his chronicle of American activism.
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.
