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Vision & Justice: Around the Kitchen Table

Five voices from the fields of theater, photography, and art history to reflect on one of Carrie Mae Weems’s most iconic projects.

Vision & Justice: A Curriculum by Hank Willis Thomas

The photographer and multimedia artist shares the books, shows, and films that have shaped his life.
Ming Smith, Sun Ra Space II, New York, 1978

Vision & Justice Online: Ming Smith and the Kamoinge Workshop

Routinely excluded from the mainstream art world, in the 1960s, a group of African American photographers formed a collective to promote their work.

Aperture Celebrates the Launch of Vision & Justice

Artists, writers, and special guests gathered at the Ford Foundation on May 10 to launch a landmark issue of Aperture.
Cover of Jet magazine, May 27, 1965

Vision & Justice Online: She Walked in Beauty

In the 1960s, Jet magazine captured African American life with grace and power. For an influential screenwriter, one cover was personal.

Vision & Justice: Guest Editor’s Note

No matter the topic—beauty, family, politics, power—the quest for a legacy of photographic representation of African Americans has been about vision and justice.
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Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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