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Alex Webb, Neuvo Laredo, Tamaulipas, 1996.
From Alex Webb: La Calle, part of our Summer Sale.
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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
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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:
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A new exhibition reconsiders Gordon Parks’s fashion and portrait work:
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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.
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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:
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Jamel Shabazz, Untitled, 1981; from Street Art, Street Life (Aperture/The Bronx Museum of the Arts, September 2008)
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“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:
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“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
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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:
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Hiroji Kubota Photographer spans over fifty years of veteran Magnum photographer Hiroji Kubota, exploring his extraordinary life and world travels. 25% off during our Holiday Sale.
© Hiroji Kubota/Magnum Photos
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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:
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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.
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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.
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A major exhibition shows how women photographers pictured themselves as they wished to be seen, both behind and before the camera.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Elliott Erwitt, New York City, USA, 1953.
From Elliott Erwitt: Home Around the World (Aperture, 2016).
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“Most of the time I’m photographing, I’m weeping.” —Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario
Read more:
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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
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"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
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“Masahisa Fukase and Josef Koudelka produced pictures that I have never tired of....I carry them around in my mind.” In the latest issue of Aperture magazine, we asked Hannah Starkey to compile a list of her favorite anythings.
© Josef Koudelka/Magnum
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Elliott Erwitt, Berkeley, California, 1956, from “Home Around the World” (Aperture, 2016).
📷© Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Photos
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Wishing you a happy holidays from Aperture ✨❄️✨
📷 Malick Sidibé, Nuit de Noël (Happy-Club), 1963, featured in Aperture 224, “Sounds” © Malick Sidibé and courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
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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:
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Aperture remembers the visionary writer Greg Tate (1957–2021) by revisiting his expansive conversation with Arthur Jafa for Ming Smith's recent monograph.
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“Zanele Muholi: Dark Lioness” from
@theeconomist
Image: © Zanele Muholi, courtesy of Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town/Johannesburg, and Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
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In the 1980s, Lee took a two-thousand-mile road trip through the American South, making portraits that glow with beauty and trust.
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“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.
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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.
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“Robert Capa knew what to look for and what to do with it when he found it.” –John Steinbeck
Born 105 years ago today, Robert Capa was one of the greatest photographers of the last century.
© Robert Capa &
@ICPhotog
/
@MagnumPhotos
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"Either you have a gift or you don’t. If you do, it’s a responsibility. You must work at it." –Henri Cartier-Bresson, who was born 110 years ago today. Read more in an interview with Sheila Turner-Seed at:
© Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos
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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.
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In the age of pandemic, the romance of the empty street becomes the terror of absence.
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On November 13 at
@BAM_Brooklyn
ear from four artists featured in The New Black Vanguard—Arielle Bobb-Willis,
@micaiah_carter
@Tyler_Mitchell_
@DanaScruggs1
—as they discuss their work with
@Sirsargent
. Get your tickets now:
📷 Dana Scruggs
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“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.
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Joel Meyerowitz's portraits from a pre-internet, more eccentric age of Provincetown. via
@them
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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.
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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.
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These Radical Black Women Changed the Art World. Read one of our best photography features of 2017:
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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:
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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:
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Why the “photobook phenomenon” is more than just a fad.
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Kikuji Kawada, The Last Golden Ring Eclipse in Japan, Okinawa, 1987, from the series Last Cosmology.
#Eclipse2017
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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.
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How this liberal-arts college in rural North Carolina became a birthplace of modern photography.
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One of the most seminal photographers of the twentieth century, Henri Cartier-Bresson was born today in 1908.
📷 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Madrid, Spain, 1933 © Henri Cartier-Bresson/
@MagnumPhotos
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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:
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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:
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And not only during a crisis.
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We are deeply saddened by the passing of South African photographer Santu Mofokeng, whose work we recently published in the "Spirituality" issue of Aperture 🖤
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The life and work of Latin America's most revered photographer, Graciela Iturbide.
One of our best photography features of 2019.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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Don McCullin, Consett, County Durham, 1974; from Don McCullin (Aperture, 2015)
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© Don McCullin/Contact Press
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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
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"Diane Arbus' series Untitled'...reminds us that nothing can surpass the strange beauty of reality if a photographer knows where to look. And how to look." via
@nytimes
:
Image © Estate of Diane Arbus
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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.
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Abdul Hamid Kanu Jr.’s images of daily life transform a West African city into its own poetic universe.
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Gregory Crewdson, Cathedral of the Pines, from “Alone Street” (Aperture, 2021).
📷
@crewdsonstudio
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“[Hiroji Kubota’s] skill is observation without artifice, documentation without judgement.” –Elliott Erwitt, from Hiroji Kubota Photographer (Aperture, 2015). Part of our Summer Sale.
Image © Hiroji Kubota/Magnum Photos
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Watch: A panel discussion on Shomei Tomatsu’s work and influence on a generation of Japanese photographers:
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"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.
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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.
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A new exhibition reveals the scope of Kenyan photojournalist Priya Ramrakha’s pan-African vision:
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A new exhibition reconsiders Gordon Parks’s fashion and portrait work:
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Susan Meiselas, Self-portrait, 44 Irving Street, Cambridge, MA, 1971; from Susan Meiselas: On the Frontline:
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Gregory Crewdson, "Woman at Sink," 2014; from "Cathedral of the Pines" (Aperture, 2016). More info:
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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:
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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
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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!
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In an interview from 1973, Henri Cartier-Bresson spoke frankly about the early days of
@MagnumPhotos
:
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Susan Meiselas, Self-portrait, 44 Irving Street, Cambridge, MA, 1971; from Susan Meiselas: On the Frontline:
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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
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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).
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How can women photographers represent Mexico’s disappeared? Maya Goded and Mayra Martell chronicle the history of violence suffered by women in Mexico.
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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
:
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From Dorothea Lange to Walker Evans, the FSA photographers of the 1930s shaped a vision of the world transformed by economic crisis.
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“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
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Hiroshi Sugimoto, Union City Drive-in, Union City, 1993; from Hiroshi Sugimoto: Black Box, part of our Summer Sale.
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Bruce Davidson, The Selma march, Alabama, 1965, from (Aperture/Fundacion MAPFRE, 2015).
#ElectionDay
#VoteToday
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.
@joelmeyerowitz
finds beauty in the objects that inspired Italian painter Giorgio Morandi (via
@nytimesphoto
)
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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:
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🌸 🌸 🌸 Happy
#FirstDayofSpring
! 🌸 🌸 🌸
Joel Meyerowitz, Vivian, Bronx Botanical Gardens, New York City, 1966; from the Photographer in the Garden.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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Sally Mann, Night-blooming Cereus, 1988, from Immediate Family (Aperture, 2014).
Through May 6, save 50% off photobooks by groundbreaking women photographers that span photography’s history.
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A new
#DianeArbus
exhibition at the
#MetBreuer
reveals the early impulses of a modern master
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