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Issues Aperture Archive Sign In Subscribe Now Aperture Spring 2024 View Latest Issue Latest Issue Free Preview Featured Words Fall 2017 Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful Everyone knows the phrase Black is beautiful,” but very few have heard of the man who helped to popularize it. By Tanisha C. Ford Pictures Winter 1995 Graciela Iturbide The colonial town square of Coyoacán, the home of photographer Graciela Iturbide, was once a blood-soaked battlefield. By Frederick Kaufman Pictures Summer 2014 Claudia Andujar In conversation with Thyago Nogueira By Thyago Nogueira Pictures Fall 2020 Guadalupe Maravilla The Coyote By Carribean Fragoza Spotlight Pictures Summer 2013 Thomas Ruff: Photograms For The New Age Conversation with Michael Famighetti By Michael Famighetti Editor’s Picks Pictures Spring 2015 Ren Hang One of China’s most distinctive young photographers, Ren Hang makes cool, saturated images that are tightly composed and lit with stark flash. Prominently featuring red lips, black hair, and supple flesh, his photography creates a world where sex, desire, and the joy of voyeurism create a visceral effect. By Stephanie H. Tung Words Fall 2020 People Of The Earth Wendy Red Star in Conversation with Emily Moazami By Wendy Red Star Words Summer 2020 The Evocative Years Libuše Jarcovjáková’s diary of beauty and despair in 1980s Prague By Alistair O’Neill Fashion & Style Pictures Fall 2014 The Icons Fashion is a language made up of a visual code of status symbols. By Inez & Vinoodh Pictures Winter 1991 Pink Thoughts Fashion photography is pornography for connoisseurs. By Glenn O’Brien Words Fall 2017 The Cult Of Walter Pfeiffer Delighting in male beauty and gender play, a prolific Swiss photographer reinvented the rules of attraction. By Alistair O’Neill Other Ways of Seeing Pictures Fall 2016 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. By Pictures Summer 2019 Venus & Mercury The Palace of Versailles has been fetishized by photographers since Eugène Atget—"a Balzac of the camera," in Berenice Abbott’s words—first fixed the crumbling statuary of its gardens in his romantic gaze early in the twentieth century. By Jerry Stafford Pictures Winter 2013 Len Lye Shadowgraphs Filmmaker and sculptor Len Lye made about forty-eight cameraless photographic portraits of friends and acquaintances. By Geoffrey Batchen Summer 1967 Ray K. Metzker My work has moved into something of the composite, of collected and related moments. By Ray K. Metzker Enter a Search 3 Articles Left Subscribe Already an archive member? Sign In Aperture Archive Welcome Issues Search aperture.org Sign In Subscribe Now Support All work is copyright of respective owner, otherwise ©2024 Aperture. Terms and...