Envisioning the Right to Vote
Coinciding with Aperture magazine’s “Vision & Justice” issue, students in Sarah Lewis’s Harvard University class “Vision & Justice: The Art of Citizenship” contributed essays on the...
View ArticleBruce Jackson: On the Inside
Bruce Jackson, Texas and Arkansas prison photographs, 1965–78Courtesy the artist Among other things, the American prison system is designed to keep a purportedly disagreeable or disposable portion of...
View ArticleNo Country for Young Men
Abbas Kowsari, Tehran/Azadi Stadium, April 22, 2006, from the series Masculinity ACourtesy the artist and Ag Galerie, Tehran Since the 1979 revolution, Iran’s image abroad has been defined by its...
View ArticleFraming Justice
Sarah Lewis, guest editor of Aperture magazine’s summer 2016 issue, “Vision & Justice,” recently asked this question to her class at Harvard University. Here are five reflections from participating...
View ArticleBeauty in the Eye of the Storm
Amos Mac and Juliana Huxtable, Liberty, 2013Courtesy the artists “Creepy, exciting, and a little weird” is how Amos Mac, a Los Angeles photographer, describes slinking into the American Civil Liberties...
View ArticleKeith Lamont Scott and the Legacy of Police Violence
Coinciding with Aperture magazine’s “Vision & Justice” issue, students in Sarah Lewis’s Harvard University class “Vision & Justice: The Art of Citizenship” contributed essays on the...
View ArticleDon't Touch Our Hair
Coinciding with Aperture magazine’s “Vision & Justice” issue, students in Sarah Lewis’s Harvard University class “Vision & Justice: The Art of Citizenship” contributed essays on images of...
View ArticleSeparate Cars on the Open Road
Coinciding with Aperture magazine’s “Vision & Justice” issue, students in Sarah Lewis’s Harvard University class “Vision & Justice: The Art of Citizenship” contributed essays on the...
View ArticleIn California, Trees as Witness and Living Memorial
Coinciding with Aperture magazine’s “Vision & Justice” issue, students in Sarah Lewis’s Harvard University class “Vision & Justice: The Art of Citizenship” contributed essays on the...
View ArticleRacial Innocence in Postwar America
Coinciding with Aperture magazine’s “Vision & Justice” issue, students in Sarah Lewis’s Harvard University class “Vision & Justice: The Art of Citizenship” contributed essays on the...
View ArticleThe Cotton Bowl and the Super Bowl
Coinciding with Aperture magazine’s “Vision & Justice” issue, students in Sarah Lewis’s Harvard University class “Vision & Justice: The Art of Citizenship” contributed essays on the...
View ArticleOn the Cover: Aperture’s “Ballads” Issue
Poster for Ballads of Sexual Dependency, by Nan Goldin, Collective for Living Cinema, New York, May 9, 1983Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, London, and Paris Before Nan...
View ArticleThe Light All Around Us
In his 1970s photographs from Colorado, Robert Adams finds the beauty and emotion in everyday homes. By Pico Iyer Robert Adams, Colorado, ca. 1973Courtesy the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, San...
View ArticleIn Japan, a Photographer Finds There’s No Stranger Place than Home
Fumi Ishino’s photographs ask what happens when a house becomes unfamiliar. By Moeko Fujii Fumi Ishino, from the series Loom, Japan, 2018Courtesy the artist Two years ago, on his annual visit to Japan,...
View ArticleWhat Happens When the American Dream of Homeownership Reaches Mexico?
For more than a decade, Alejandro Cartagena has photographed Mexican suburbs transformed by the rapid construction of new homes. By Yxta Maya Murray Alejandro Cartagena, Family walking back from store...
View ArticleDenise Scott Brown on the Signs and Symbols for Living
For the acclaimed architect, photography has always been a central approach to design. By Peter Barberie Denise Scott Brown, Philadelphia, November 2019Photograph by Jody Rogac for Aperture In her...
View ArticleMidcentury Modern in Black and White
In the postwar years, Ezra Stoller photographed iconic buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe. But, were his images a reality—or an ideal? By Mimi Zeiger Ezra Stoller, Frank Lloyd...
View ArticleThe Terror and Pleasure of Staying at Home
How did an early 1990s exhibition anticipate the transformation of family life in the U.S.? By Sara Knelman Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Sergio and Totti, 1985Courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, New York/Art...
View ArticleFor Annabelle Selldorf, Architecture is Not About Powerful Images
The art world’s favorite architect on her photographic influences, designing sought-after homes, and how buildings can actually “do something.” By Julian Rose Annabelle Selldorf, New York, October...
View ArticleMinimal, Messy, or Melancholic?
The many faces of “home” in Japanese photography. By Lena Fritsch Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Untitled, 1981–82, from the series Katsura Imperial VillaCourtesy Kochi Prefecture, Ishimoto Yasuhiro Photo Center...
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