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Vision & Justice Online: Nothing Personal
At the height of the civil rights movement, Richard Avedon and James Baldwin collaborated on a controversial photobook. But, was Nothing Personal a luxury object or a ruthless indictment of American...
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Vision & Justice Online: The People’s Justice Murals
On the streets of New York, murals strike back against police brutality. By Emily Raboteau Nelson Rivas, aka Cekis, Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan, Wadsworth Avenue and 174th Street, 2009. “If you...
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Vision & Justice Online: 3 Reflections on Cinema and Archives
For Aperture’s “Vision & Justice” issue, groundbreaking filmmakers Ava DuVernay and Bradford Young speak about diversity and inclusion in Hollywood in “Black Lives, Silver Screen.” Here, Catherine...
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Vision & Justice Online: Renée Mussai in Conversation with Victor Peterson II
Coinciding with the release of Aperture’s summer issue, “Vision & Justice,” Renée Mussai, Curator and Head of Archive at Autograph ABP in London, discusses the politics of representation in...
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Listening for Eggleston
A profile of the pioneering artist and his passion for music. By John Jeremiah Sullivan William Eggleston at his Bösendorfer piano, Memphis, 2016. Photograph by Stefan Ruiz I remember the first William...
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Midnight in Bamako
In search of the late Malick Sidibé and the rhythmic roots of his legendary photographs. By A. Chab Touré Malick Sidibé, Taximan avec voiture, 1970 © Malick Sidibé and courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery,...
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Noisy Pictures
What does a photograph sound like? In this sonic sequence, a group of leading curators, writers, and historians reflect on images that won’t stay quiet. Robert W. Kelley, Teenagers screaming and...
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No System
On the road with Vinca Petersen, who chronicled the raves, free parties, and traveling sound systems of ’90s-era Europe. By Sheryl Garratt Vinca Petersen, No System, 1999. Courtesy the artist Vinca...
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Wild Sync: Lucy Raven in Conversation with Drew Sawyer
In advance of the New York debut of her video installation Tales of Love and Fear at the Park Avenue Armory, Lucy Raven spoke with Drew Sawyer about sonic journeys near and far. Lucy Raven, Tales of...
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Vision & Justice Online: Mark Bradford’s Pride of Place
The multidisciplinary artist investigates myths of black masculinity through costume, performance, and an iconic basketball jersey. By Antwaun Sargent Mark Bradford, Pride of Place, 2009. Courtesy the...
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A New Grammar for Blackness
From the “Vision & Justice” issue of Aperture, an award-winning poet reflects on the intricate drawings of Toyin Ojih Odutola. By Claudia Rankine Toyin Ojih Odutola, I Wish You Would, 2011. Pen ink...
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Dispatches: Cairo
On the rooftops of Egypt’s capital, photographers reclaim the urban landscape. By Ismail Fayed Cairo Bats, Act 1: The Roof (Downtown), 2015 © Cairo Bats Setting: A rooftop that looks like a spacecraft....
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Justine Kurland’s Great American Road Trip
Justine Kurland crossed the United States in a weathered van, adding thousands of miles to her odometer while pursuing a chronicle of American drifters. By David Campany Justine Kurland, 280 Coup,...
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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...
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Keith 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...
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In 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...
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The 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...
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Racial 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...
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Separate 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...
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A Portrait of the Artist as Claude Cahun
On the cover of Aperture’s “On Feminism” issue is a photograph by Gillian Wearing, who recreated a 1927 self-portrait by the French writer and artist Claude Cahun. Rediscovered in the 1990s, Cahun was...
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