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How Photography and Jazz Merged to Forge the “Black Is Beautiful” Movement

Avatar photo by Colony Little April 23, 2019October 22, 2020

Kwame Brathwaite’s photographs fused the two mediums to push the boundaries of beauty, transforming how we define Blackness.

Posted inIn Brief

Nan Goldin Selling Signed Prints for $100 to Fight the Opioid Crisis

Avatar photo by Zachary Small October 29, 2018

The artist is donating proceeds from the sale, a collaboration between Magnum Photos and the Aperture Foundation, to her activist group PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now).

Posted inArt

Portraits of Palestinian Life in America

Avatar photo by Murat Cem Mengüç May 10, 2018

Focusing on a handful of Gazan experiences, Home Away From Home examines how people construct familiar spaces for themselves within distant landscapes and is on view at Aperture.

Posted inBooks

Portrayals of Prisoners Complicate Stereotypes and Implicate the US

by Phillip Griffith February 23, 2018

The images and art works that make up this exhibition — mostly vernacular and documentary photographs — restore dignity to their subjects by restoring nuance to their stories.

Posted inArt

A Photographer’s Multifaceted Scenes of Mexican Street Life

by Julia Friedman October 13, 2016

An exhibition at the Aperture Foundation gathers pictures taken by Alex Webb over more than 30 years, all across Mexico.

Posted inBooks

How Photographs Have Shaped Our View of the National Parks

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 12, 2016

There were two prominent types of landscape photographs in the 1860s: Civil War battlefields strewn with the dead, and sweeping vistas of the West.

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The Photographed, Collaged, and Painted Muses of Mickalene Thomas

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne March 1, 2016March 5, 2016

New Jersey-born, Brooklyn-based artist Mickalene Thomas is best known for her richly textured, rhinestone-encrusted paintings of African-American women and bright, collaged interiors. Lesser known is her photography, which she’s long considered a crucial component of her art practice.

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30 Years On, Nan Goldin’s Unflinching ‘Ballad’ Is Just as Powerful

by Elyssa Goodman December 28, 2015December 24, 2015

When the slideshow of Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency flipped past pictures of her ex Brian, I finally understood why she had photographed him so much.

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From Ireland, Photographer Doug DuBois’s Images of Fading Youth

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez November 7, 2015November 17, 2015

“Youth is wasted on the young” is one of those clever-sounding, achingly wistful quips that have been attributed to various wags of assorted times and places, including the Irish writers Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw.

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Through a Lens, Inquisitively: Modern Photo Visions, of and from Japan

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez September 12, 2015September 22, 2015

Most photographs of real-life events tend to be documentary by nature, but the kind of photographic image-making that makes a point of approaching its subjects with an “objective” viewpoint and a for-posterity sense of purpose — can such photos ever convey a truly neutral position vis-à-vis their subjects?

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Photographing the Universal Drama of the School Playground

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 7, 2015October 15, 2022

Even if you don’t remember a lick of elementary school classwork, it’s likely the joys and terrors of the schoolyard linger.

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Finding Community in the Picture Windows of Paris

by Laura C. Mallonee November 10, 2014November 9, 2014

Anonymity can be comfortable, though, which is why — for many of us at least — the desire to connect rarely propels us beyond a voyeuristic curiosity about the neighbors.

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