Beginning in the late 1930s, Van Leo made hundreds of dazzling and uncanny self-portraits. What does his archive tell us about the mysteries of identity?
Throughout her career, Goldin photographed her friends, her lovers, and the family she made for herself. Her work constitutes an autobiography in several volumes, her life as an episodic tale.
The guest editor of Aperture’s “Spirituality” issue, Wolfgang Tillmans speaks about contemporary image culture, the anxieties of time, and how photography might foster respect for the world.
Women have made some of the most radical accomplishments in nonconventional image making. Can working against the grain be an act of defiance?
Throughout his career, the irreverent Ukrainian photographer has flirted with conceptual and documentary traditions to subvert Soviet-era visual codes.
Sable Elyse Smith’s “Landscapes & Playgrounds” includes aerial photographs and handwritten letters, portraying the intimacy between an incarcerated father and a daughter.
Buck Ellison creates deliberately artificial depictions of wealth and aspiration, crafted with the precision of commercial shoots.
For the New York–based artist—whose practice incorporates photography, video, sound, installation, and performance—the research becomes the work itself.
Ruminating on a 1995 issue of “Aperture,” Linklater began to draw, write, fold, and scan, making a new project about the ways we see each other in images.
A touchstone for contemporary artists, Cumming was fascinated by illusion and trickery, inviting viewers to look in—and look again.
During the 1971 Paris Biennale, Nakahira photographed, printed, and exhibited his daily images of the city—creating a landmark photo-installation that pushed the bounds of a “living” work.
The pioneering photographer speaks about the evolution of her career—and how she negotiated a field dominated by men.
In a 2015 interview, the great photographer speaks about his remarkable career in photography and film.
In a conversation with Ryuichi Kaneko, the celebrated photographer discusses the arc of his career and the making of the iconic 1965 photobook The Map.
For years, Joan E. Biren crisscrossed the U.S. with a slide show that told an alternative history of photography with lesbians as central protagonists.
Hal Fischer speaks about his seminal 1970s-era examination of the “hanky code” used to signal sexual preferences of gay men.
Since 2012, Jacob Aue Sobol has opened up a boldly contemporary Asia, taking us into Chinese, Russian, and Mongolian lives.
In Buffalo, the photographer finds imaginative possibilities in the city’s postindustrial landscapes.
Fall 2022, “The Seventieth Anniversary Issue”
