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Exhibitions to See

Collecting • Mikki Ferrill’s photographs expand a museum’s collection—and representations of Black joy.

Viewfinder • Wolfgang Tillmans’s retrospective makes the case for a democratic vision of photography.

Day Jobs • Building fences in Texas prepared Christopher Anderson for documentary work on the front lines.

Dispatches • Billy H.C. Kwok grapples with the events that have turned life in Hong Kong and Taiwan upside down.

Studio Visit • After years spent considering at the lives of others, Mikhael Subotzky picks up the pieces of his own life.

Curriculum • Elle Pérez

The 70th Anniversary Issue

The Invention of Minor White • How did one of Aperture’s founding editors find spiritual liberation through photography?

Iñaki Bonillas • Compositions

Did You See Those Pictures? • From W. Eugene Smith to Dorothea Lange, the tensions between reportage, trauma, and artistry.

Dayanita Singh • The Photography of Nony Singh

The Idea of Photography • A decade that redefined the medium.

Yto Barrada • Bettina’s Color-aid Papers

Edges of Illusion • At a time of burgeoning culture wars, artists confronted fundamentally political questions about identity.

Mark Steinmetz • Irina & Amelia

The Shape of Trans to Come • At the end of the millennium, photography was forming our understanding of life beyond boundaries of gender, time, and space.

John Edmonds • Father’s Jewels

Real Life and Living Memory • In the first decade of the twenty-first century, photographers sought the tangible in an increasingly digital world.

Hannah Whitaker • Millennium Pictures

Everyday People • In a time of overabundant information, could the photo-album hold cultures together?

Hank Willis Thomas • Quilts

The PhotoBook Review

Irma Boom Books for the Future • A Conversation with Lesley A. Martin

Reviews

Endnote • Hua Hsu