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Takashi Homma’s Tokyo Obscura
The following is an excerpt from a portfolio in Aperture magazine #219, Summer 2015, “Tokyo.” This article also appears in Issue 10 of the Aperture Photography App, a new biweekly publication from...
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Tokyo’s Spaces
By Kenji Takazawa Tokyo is teeming with independent art spaces that present exhibitions, sell photobooks, and provide platforms for discussing photography. Journalist Kenji Takazawa provides an...
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Nobuyoshi Araki’s Polaroids
Nobuyoshi Araki’s portfolio of Polaroid collages of nudes juxtaposed with flora is one of the Tokyo-based photographer’s latest projects, which appeared in Aperture magazine #219, Summer 2015, “Tokyo,”...
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The Interview Issue Aperture #220 – Editors’ Note
The following note first appeared in Aperture magazine #220, Fall 2015. Subscribe here to read it first, in print or online. Clockwise from top left: William Klein, 1978; Boris Mikhailov, 2014;...
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An Interview with Bruce Davidson
The fall issue of Aperture magazine comprises nine in-depth interviews with major photographers who have spent their lives working as image makers; some subjects have doggedly been at it for more than...
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Magazine: An Interview with William Klein
When writer Aaron Schuman first arrived at William Klein’s apartment, five stories above Paris’s rue de Médicis, he was ushered into Klein’s living room by his assistant. Klein, eighty-seven, had been...
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An Interview with Ishiuchi Miyako
Through her images of subjects ranging from the American Occupation of Japan and the bombing of Hiroshima, to women’s scarred bodies and her mother’s and Frida Kahlo’s personal effects, Ishiuchi...
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On Venice ’79
For Redux, Aperture magazine’s regular column on rediscovered books and writings on photography, we look at the catalogue that accompanied a one-time, photography-only biennial. This article appeared...
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On Record: RoseLee Goldberg and Roxana Marcoci in Conversation
Performances are ephemeral; photographs are permanent. When is an image more than a mere document? How do images bring us closer to an event we never witnessed? In this excerpt from the upcoming...
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Self-Portraiture in the First-Person Age
All users perform a version of themselves on Instagram. But how are artists today using the commercial platform to calculated effect? In this excerpt from the new Aperture magazine, “Performance,” New...
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Lecture as Performance
Lebanese artists Walid Raad, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, and Rabih Mroué and Lina Saneh have all embraced the artist’s talk to unpack history and the limitations of the photograph. In this...
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Magazine: Helena Almeida
The octogenarian Portuguese artist Helena Almeida was intent on blurring lines: her playful images might be considered paintings, actions, and performative photographs. Here, Lisbon–based curator and...
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For the Camera
Posing, role-playing, or staging a tableau: the impulse to perform has long been a fixture of photography. Beginning in February, a new exhibition at Tate Modern explores how performance artists use...
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Samuel Fosso: Emperor of Africa
A master of theatrical self-portraiture turns toward China. By Olu Oguibe Samuel Fosso, Self-Portrait as Mao Zedong, from the series Emperor of Africa, 2013 © Samuel Fosso. Courtesy Jean Marc Patras,...
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Torbjørn Rødland: Inducing Wonder
Exploring the symbolism of cultural mythologies and human nature, Torbjørn Rødland is a modern-day surrealist. Ahead of his artist talk at the Aperture Gallery and Bookstore on February 16, 2016,...
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An Interview with Rosalind Fox Solomon
Rosalind Fox Solomon’s photographic career has been defined by an itch for travel and a desire to use the camera as a means of self-discovery, or, as she puts it, as a way of “talking to myself.” A...
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Odyssey
Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Traffic, 2013, from the series Eurasia. Courtesy the artists, RaebervonStenglin, Sies+Höke, and Peter Lav Gallery “The tourist hopes to catch something through his lens,...
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Arrivals and Departures
On the Trans-Siberian Railway, Jacob Aue Sobol discovers the texture of societies in transition. By Pico Iyer Jacob Aue Sobol, Moscow, Russia, 2012 Fierce eyed in their filmy black dresses and...
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Into the Void: Taryn Simon in Conversation with Kate Fowle
Since 2006, Taryn Simon has collected objects and documents in a black field measured to the exact dimensions of Kazimir Malevich’s painting Black Square (1915). Set to end on May 21, 3015, and created...
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Open Roads & Invisible Borders
Since 2009, a photography collective has embarked on five road trips across West and Central Africa, creating a kaleidoscopic portrait of everyday life. For their latest trek, the group drove from Lagos...
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