In a 1978 film called Lynn Turning into Roberta, the artist Lynn Hershman Leeson applies makeup to her face, sets a wig on her head, and gradually eases into the role of her fictitious persona and ...

It all began with the high heels. In 1976, as a precocious teenager, Samuel Fosso traveled from Bangui, Central African Republic, where he operated his own photography business called Studio Photo ...

New York, October 6, 2026—Today, Aperture releases Tina Barney: Fashion, the first book dedicated to Tina Barney’s life and work in fashion photography. Concurrently with the release of the monograph, ...

“I’m tired of either/or,” says Theaster Gates. Artist, urban planner, activist, potter, archivist, gospel singer, and much else—the eminent Chicagoan has spent his career embodying the possibilities ...

July has a knack for spinning an otherwise forgettable encounter into a beguiling narrative—visual, literary, or cinematic. At age seventeen, she staged a performance at a Berkeley, California, punk ...

Please join us at Aperture’s new home for a special conversation between photographer Stephen Shore and Lucy Gallun, Curator in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. To ...

Anna Atkins’s book Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843–53) has long been, to photographers, a highlight of the New York Public Library collection, and perhaps even a subtle ...

For fifty years, Robert Adams has made compelling, provocative, and highly influential photographs that show us the wonder and fragility of the American landscape, its inherent beauty, and the ...

Visiting the photographer Walter Pfeiffer in his studio in Zurich, you find an orderly space, painted white, possessing the trappings of a typical design studio: swivel chairs, Pantone pens, and a ...

I don’t have any pictures of my family in my home. My spouse has a photograph of us and our dog, on our bookcase, I think. I don’t keep images of my parents or ...

Danny Lyon has a story to tell—many stories, in fact. The photographer who captured a young John Lewis, then chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and other moments of the ...

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, the threat of nuclear war seemed abstract—even anachronistic. Recent geopolitical tensions, however, have reminded us that its reality remains contemporary. The ...