Visions & voices: a celebration of genius in photography - part II: contexts, conflicts and congeries

Discusses the beginnings of the photography journal Aperture. The author describes the early development of the critical discussion of photography in the 20th century, examines the rift between the photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, explains the objectives of the journal's first editor the photographer Minor White, making reference to the early presentation of work by Alfred Eisenstaedt, Imogen Cunningham, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, Aaron Siskind, Ray K. Metzker, Robert Frank, Bruce Davidson, and Edward Weston, and focuses on Aperture's long-term guidance by the publisher Michael E. Hoffman. The author subsequently presents work by Pierre et Gilles, Nam June Paik, Walter Chappell, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, David McDermott and Peter McGough, W. Eugene Smith, Inge Morath, Eikoh Hosoe, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar, David Hockney, Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Dorothea Lange, Mary Ellen Mark, Garry Winogrand, Ferdinando Scianna, Duane Michals, Graciela Iturbide, and Barbara Morgan, which is interspersed with quotations from Ansel Adams, White, Henry Miller, Frederick Sommer, Nancy Newhall, and Coomaraswamy.