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Zoe Leonard, Downtown (for Douglas), 2016

Zoe Leonard’s Elegiac Images of Downtown New York

In her tribute to the critic Douglas Crimp, Leonard’s photographs of street scenes and subways suggest the fantasy of waiting.

America on the Brink

Zoe Leonard’s retrospective investigates the politics of image making.

Black is Brilliant

From Accra to Harlem, photographs that expand the field of representation.

5 Photography Exhibitions to See This Fall

From modern dance to postwar portraits, here are this fall’s must-see exhibitions in New York.

Kristen Lubben on Zoe Leonard and Cheryl Dunye The Fae Richards Photo Archive

Kristen Lubben reflects on a collection of glamour shots, stills from movie sets, photobooth portraits, family snapshots, and typewritten captions which make up a fictional archive.

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Aperture Magazine No. 261, “The Craft Issue” Cover
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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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