Happy Birthday Ansel Adams!
Image: Ansel Adams, The Tetons - Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming; courtesy U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division
In the late 1970s and early ’80s, Joel Meyerowitz spent his summers roaming Provincetown, MA, making exquisite portraits of its progressive community—most never-before-published. “Provincetown” is available now:
How Masahisa Fukase Reinvented the Family Album: the renowned Japanese photographer transformed the ritual of the family portrait into a source of play—and a memento mori.
The Kenyan photojournalist Priya Ramrakha covered twentieth-century icons from Malcolm X to Salvador Dalí. Nearly fifty years after his death, a recent exhibition reveals the scope of his pan-African vision:
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” -Dorothea Lange, Aperture Founding Member. Check out all our lessons in Aperture On Sight - a free curriculum for teaching visual literacy:
“When I first started, the camera felt so obtrusive. I was too shy to walk up to people and take their picture. But now, my camera is exactly the reason I can walk up to people." —Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario
In Gypsies, Josef Koudelka offers an intimate glimpse into Europe’s Roma communities from 1962 and 1971.
Now, we're revisiting this seminal photobook in a new, mini, paperback edition. Collect now:
Gordon Parks, who is best known for his velvety black-and-white photographs of the civil rights era, was also an innovative fashion photographer, often taking to New York’s streets for his atmospheric shoots:
We are thrilled to share the Deana Lawson has been awarded the Hugo Boss Prize 2020! The first artist working in of photography to be awarded the prize, as winner Lawson receives an honorarium $100,000 and a solo exhibition at
@Guggenheim
in spring 2021.
In Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs’ photographs, America is an existential playground. Read more in The Open Road (Aperture, 2014), part of our Summer Sale.
Image: Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, Wires, 2008.
On June 8, 1968, three days after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, his body was carried by a funeral train from NYC to Washington, D.C. for burial. Paul Fusco accompanied the train, photographing the American people coming out to mourn.
The photobook has become central to the development of Japanese photography, particularly in its postwar phase. Read our round-up of 7 essential Japanese photobooks, from Rinko Kawauchi, Eikoh Hosoe, Hiroji Kubota, and more.
One of the most powerful visual activists of our time, Zanele Muholi’s photographs are radical statements of identity, race, and resistance.
Image: Zanele Muholi, Ntozakhe II, Parktown, Johannesburg, 2016
A Photographer Who Makes You Ask, ‘What Has Happened Here?’: Erwin Olaf’s photos have the gloss of fashion shots and a haunting undercurrent that makes you long for more context. As he turns 60, three museums will present his work. Via
@nytimes
"This is about self-love. It's about self-representation." Zanele Muholi’s new book is a manifesto of resistance. Watch more at:
Image: Zanele Muholi, Ntozakhe II, Parktown, Johannesburg, 2016
Aperture mourns the loss of the pioneering curator Okwui Enwezor, whose influence on the field of contemporary photography and art from Africa is immeasurable. Read his 2017 interview on the recent histories of African photography here:
Aperture remembers the visionary writer Greg Tate (1957–2021) by revisiting his expansive conversation with Arthur Jafa for Ming Smith's recent monograph.
“I still feel the need to stitch a photograph and weave it into something more. I want to know what the subject says, beyond what the picture shows. I want to explore how the viewer can be invited into the exchange.” —Susan Meiselas, from On the Frontline.
In his new photobook, Here for the Ride,
@photoDre
records moments of black urbanity that run counter to the stifling mainstream representations of what blackness and urbanity are said to be.
What comes first—the idea for a project, or the images themselves? 12 photographers on how they conceptualize their work.
One of our best photography features of 2019.
“Some people believe that the photographer is always the last one invited to the party, but this is my party. I threw it.” —Nan Goldin
From Aperture Conversations: 1985 to the Present.
How does a photographic series evolve? How important are style and genre? What comes first—the photographs or a concept?
Hear from Alec Soth, Rinko Kawauchi, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and more on their process and practice in our new book PhotoWork.
W. Eugene Smith, Dream Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 1955
For the first time ever, a photograph by W. Eugene Smith is available in the
@MagnumPhotos
Square Print Sale in Partnership with Aperture! Collect now:
Joel Meyerowitz reflects on the magic of Provincetown—a place that has captivated his imagination through every flowering of identity and sexual politics of the last forty-five years.
Gordon Parks, who is best known for his velvety black-and-white photographs of the civil rights era, was also an innovative fashion photographer, often taking to New York’s streets for his atmospheric shoots:
Gordon Parks, who is best known for his velvety black-and-white photographs of the civil rights era, was also an innovative fashion photographer, often taking to New York’s streets for his atmospheric shoots:
On the occasion of William Klein's passing on September 10, 2022 we revisit a 2015 interview with the great photographer about his remarkable career in photography and film.
We are deeply saddened by the passing of South African photographer Santu Mofokeng, whose work we recently published in the "Spirituality" issue of Aperture 🖤
Aperture is deeply saddened by the passing of Chris Killip, whose photographs of the working class imbue his subjects and scenes with a sense of urgency, mystery, and radiance.
Here, we look back at a 2012 interview with Michael Almereyda:
Robert Adams, Colorado Springs, The New West (Aperture, 2008).
A classic in the pantheon of landmark projects on American culture and society, the reissue is available now in our Summer Sale.
In celebration of
#InternationalWomenDay2020
, we look at seminal first monographs by Diane Arbus and Nan Goldin to modern classics by Deana Lawson, Rinko Kawauchi and more.
Deeply saddened by the news of Jill Freedman's passing—a street photographer who immersed herself in the rougher precincts of American life, portraying their denizens as noble but not necessarily heroic. via
@nytimes
Kwame Brathwaite’s photographs from the ‘50s and ‘60s transformed how we define Blackness. Join us on May 14 at the
@schomburgcenter
for a free panel discussion and book launch of his new monograph Black is Beautiful. RSVP now:
Aperture magazine presents “Accra,” an issue guest edited by Lyle Ashton Harris and Nii Obodai that considers the Ghanaian capital as a site of dynamic photographic voices and histories that connect visual culture in West Africa to the world.
"It's okay for you to be you and love yourself, even if people will deny your existence." Zanele Muholi's new book is a manifesto of resistance. Watch more at
Image: Zanele Muholi, Bester I, Mayotte, 2015.
This weekend marks the 136 anniversary of the opening for the Brooklyn Bridge.
From 1906 to 1943, Eugene de Salignac shot over twenty thousand negatives of NYC, documenting the creation of the city’s modern infrastructure. See more in New York Rises.
Do you want to learn how to build your own 4x5 camera and shoot with it? Register for our new workshop and learn the skills of large format photography—film provided by
@Kodak
and you’ll get to take home your own 4x5 camera!
Ming Smith's photographs act as sites of complicated indexicality, in which Black individuals are able to escape the confines of their own visibility.
via
@TheBrooklynRail
Mary Ellen Mark, Crissy, Jesse, Linda, and Dean Damm in their car, Los Angeles, 1987.
Until Friday, collect this print and over 120 more by legendary Aperture and
@MagnumPhotos
artists for $100 each. Shop now:
One of our most viewed photography features of 2018 so far, The Woman Behind the First Photography Gallery tells the story of how Helen Gee risked everything to open Limelight in 1954.
Image: Arthur Lavine, Helen Gee retouching transparencies, 1955
Profoundly empathetic and psychologically intense, Gillian Wearing’s work probes the tensions between self and society in an increasingly media-saturated world.
See more in Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks,” a new exhibition now on view at
@Guggenheim
:
How can women photographers represent Mexico’s disappeared? Maya Goded and Mayra Martell chronicle the history of violence suffered by women in Mexico.
Congrats to Kathy Ryan on her retirement as director of photography from The New York Times Magazine, after 39 years at the magazine. Aperture has worked with Ryan previously on “The New York Times Magazine Photographs” (2011) and “Office Romance” (2014).
“Americans, even those who have never been to a prison or had a relative in prison, need to realize that we are all implicated in a form of governance that uses prison as a solution to many social, economic, and political problems,” — Nicole R. Fleetwood
#PrisonNation
In the May 7th print issue of The
@NewYorker
, Zadie Smith's powerful essay on Deana Lawson, from "Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph," coming this fall.
Throughout the 1950s and ‘60s, Kwame Brathwaite used photography to popularize the slogan “Black Is Beautiful.”
Extending from Aperture's 2019 volume, "Black is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite" is now on view at
@NYHistory
.
More details:
Revisiting Josef Koudelka's Photographs of Europe's Roma Communities: In a new edition, Aperture takes an updated look at one of the seminal photobooks of the twentieth century.
"It's okay for you to be you and love yourself, even if people will deny your existence." Zanele Muholi's new book is a manifesto of resistance. Watch more at
Image: Zanele Muholi, Faniswa, Seapoint, Capetown, 2016.
A new exhibition of the African-American photographer’s pioneering work celebrates an artist who, over her five-decade-long career, has always followed her instinct over the status quo.
How does a photographic series evolve? How important are style and genre? What comes first—the photographs or a concept?
Hear from Alec Soth, Rinko Kawauchi, Justine Kurland, and more on their process and practice in our new book PhotoWork.
"Progress requires pictures, because of the images that they conjure in one's imagination." —Sarah Lewis, from Aperture 223 “Vision & Justice," part of our Summer Sale.
Image: Awol Erizku, Girl with a Bamboo Earring, 2009; Courtesy the artist.