July has a knack for spinning an otherwise forgettable encounter into a beguiling narrative—visual, literary, or cinematic. At age seventeen, she staged a performance at a Berkeley, California, punk ...
It all began with the high heels. In 1976, as a precocious teenager, Samuel Fosso traveled from Bangui, Central African Republic, where he operated his own photography business called Studio Photo ...
“I’m tired of either/or,” says Theaster Gates. Artist, urban planner, activist, potter, archivist, gospel singer, and much else—the eminent Chicagoan has spent his career embodying the possibilities ...
Please join us at Aperture’s new home for a special conversation between photographer Stephen Shore and Lucy Gallun, Curator in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. To ...
This interview originally appeared in Aperture, issue 220, “The Interview Issue,” Fall 2015. Fox Solomon’s photographic career has been defined by an itch for travel and a desire to use the camera as ...
Consider the origin stories of two famous photographs. In 1936, Dorothea Lange photographed a white woman displaced by the Dust Bowl who was staring into the distance. In the image, the woman’s two ...
In the late 1970s, Tina Barney began a decades-long exploration of the everyday but often hidden life of the New England upper class to which she and her family belonged. Photographing close relatives ...
Long before the torrent of attention unleashed by ChatGPT’s public release in November 2022, the artist Trevor Paglen was patiently teaching us about the underlying technologies and training sets of ...
In the nearly seven decades since its publication in France in 1958, then in the US in 1959, Robert Frank’s The Americans has become one of the most influential and enduring works of American ...
The visual history of the South is inextricably intertwined with the history of both photography and America, offering an apt lens through which to examine American identity. A Long Arc collects key ...
Danny Lyon has a story to tell—many stories, in fact. The photographer who captured a young John Lewis, then chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and other moments of the ...
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