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From Ernest Cole, Awol Erizku, Deana Lawson, and more, here are essential Aperture titles to read this Black History Month.

Ming Smith was the first Black woman photographer to have her work acquired by New York's MoMA. Now, a retrospective offers a "critical reintroduction" to five decades of her experimental practice.

The visionary image-maker readies two solo exhibitions, at MoMA and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, as well as a Cadillac commission.

Reviews - January 14, 2021 In 2016, on the occasion of an exhibition of the photographs of Louis Draper at Steven Kasher Gallery, Hyperallergic critic John Yau asked, “Does the Museum of Modern Art Even Know about This Great Photographer?” Apparently, they didn’t. Although Draper, who had died in 2002, was a prominent Black photographer and one-time president of the Kamoinge Workshop, there was little evidence that New York’s august Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) had paid much attention. MoMA’s communications director tersely informed Yau that the museum did, indeed, own photographs ...

Blurring the Lines Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph, offers a comprehensive survey of a pioneering body of work. Born in Detroit but based in New York since the early 1970s, Ming Smith was the first female African-American photographer to have her work acquired by New York’s Museum of Modern Art. She has mastered a blurry, impressionistic style emulating the mixture of spontaneity and detail in the jazz music she often evokes with her images. Raised in Columbus, Ohio, Ming Smith’s childhood unfolded in a setting very different to the Manhattan and Brooklyn streets that she made her...