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  • Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful - Fall | Aperture
    Words Fall 2017

    Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful

    Everyone knows the phrase “Black is beautiful,” but very few have heard of the man who helped to popularize it. 

    By Tanisha C. Ford
  • Graciela Iturbide - Winter | Aperture
    Pictures Winter 1995

    Graciela Iturbide

    The colonial town square of Coyoacán, the home of photographer Graciela Iturbide, was once a blood-soaked battlefield.

    By Frederick Kaufman
  • Claudia Andujar - Summer | Aperture
    Pictures Summer 2014

    Claudia Andujar

    In conversation with Thyago Nogueira

    By Thyago Nogueira
  • Guadalupe Maravilla - Fall | Aperture
    Pictures Fall 2020

    Guadalupe Maravilla

    The Coyote

    By Carribean Fragoza

Spotlight

  • Thomas Ruff: Photograms For The New Age - Summer | Aperture
    Pictures Summer 2013

    Thomas Ruff: Photograms For The New Age

    Conversation with Michael Famighetti

    By Michael Famighetti

Editor’s Picks

  • Ren Hang - Spring | Aperture
    Pictures Spring 2015

    Ren Hang

    One of China’s most distinctive young photographers, Ren Hang makes cool, saturated images that are tightly composed and lit with stark flash. Prominently featuring red lips, black hair, and supple flesh, his photography creates a world where sex, desire, and the joy of voyeurism create a visceral effect.

    By Stephanie H. Tung
  • People Of The Earth - Fall | Aperture
    Words Fall 2020

    People Of The Earth

    Wendy Red Star in Conversation with Emily Moazami

    By Wendy Red Star
  • The Evocative Years - Summer | Aperture
    Words Summer 2020

    The Evocative Years

    Libuše Jarcovjáková's diary of beauty and despair in 1980s Prague

    By Alistair O’Neill

Fashion & Style

  • The Icons - Fall | Aperture
    Pictures Fall 2014

    The Icons

    Fashion is a language made up of a visual code of status symbols.

    By Inez & Vinoodh
  • Pink Thoughts - Winter | Aperture
    Pictures Winter 1991

    Pink Thoughts

    Fashion photography is pornography for connoisseurs. 

    By Glenn O’Brien
  • The Cult Of Walter Pfeiffer - Fall | Aperture
    Words Fall 2017

    The Cult Of Walter Pfeiffer

    Delighting in male beauty and gender play, a prolific Swiss photographer reinvented the rules of attraction.

    By Alistair O’Neill

Other Ways of Seeing

  • Noisy Pictures - Fall | Aperture
    Pictures Fall 2016

    Noisy Pictures

    What does a photograph sound like? In this sonic sequence, a group of leading curators, writers, and historians reflect on images that won’t stay quiet.

  • Venus & Mercury - Summer | Aperture
    Pictures Summer 2019

    Venus & Mercury

    The Palace of Versailles has been fetishized by photographers since Eugène Atget—"a Balzac of the camera," in Berenice Abbott’s words—first fixed the crumbling statuary of its gardens in his romantic gaze early in the twentieth century.

    By Jerry Stafford
  • Len Lye Shadowgraphs - Winter | Aperture
    Pictures Winter 2013

    Len Lye Shadowgraphs

    Filmmaker and sculptor Len Lye made about forty-eight cameraless photographic portraits of friends and acquaintances.

    By Geoffrey Batchen
  • Ray K. Metzker - Summer | Aperture
    Summer 1967

    Ray K. Metzker

    My work has moved into something of the composite, of collected and related moments.

    By Ray K. Metzker
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