{"product_id":"aperture-248-paperback","title":"Aperture 248 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAperture\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnniversary issue features seven original commissions by leading photographers and artists, and seven essays about Aperture's legacy by award-winning writers and critics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis fall, \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates seventy years in print with an issue that explores the magazine's past while charting its future. Reflecting on the founding editors' original mission and drawing on \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e's global community of photographers, writers, and thinkers, this issue features seven original artist commissions as well as seven essays by some of the most incisive writers working today--each engaging with the magazine's archive in distinct ways. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Among the original artist commissions, \u003cb\u003eIñaki Bonillas\u003c\/b\u003e selects iconic images and texts from the \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e's archive from the 1950s to produce open-ended narrative collages. \u003cb\u003eDayanita Singh\u003c\/b\u003e reflects on the 1960s and the family album as a serious photographic form. \u003cb\u003eYto Barrada\u003c\/b\u003e enacts sculptural interventions to issues and spreads from the 1970s, using remnants of the late artist Bettina Grossman's color paper cutouts. \u003cb\u003eMark Steinmetz\u003c\/b\u003e draws inspiration from the magazine's Summer 1987 issue, \"Mothers \u0026amp; Daughters,\" to compose a photo essay of his wife, the photographer Irina Rozovsky, and their daughter Amelia. Considering the matrix of censorship, art, and religion in the 1990s, \u003cb\u003eJohn Edmonds\u003c\/b\u003e creates a tableau about family, faith, and grief. \u003cb\u003eHannah Whitaker\u003c\/b\u003e explores the turn of the century, and the ways in which our anxieties about technology create speculative worlds. And \u003cb\u003eHank Willis Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e draws on \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e's issues from the 2010s to create a series of collages that reference traditional quilt patterning, revivifying history and remixing the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLooking back upon \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e's legacy, \u003cb\u003eDarryl Pinckney\u003c\/b\u003e reconsiders the photographer and editor Minor White, whose vision shaped the magazine for nearly two decades, beginning in the 1950s. \u003cb\u003eOlivia Laing\u003c\/b\u003e writes about the 1960s and the tensions between reportage and artistry in the work of Dorothea Lange, W. Eugene Smith, and others. \u003cb\u003eGeoff Dyer\u003c\/b\u003e revisits to the 1970s, which he considers a decade of new ideas and deeper reflection on the medium, looking into the works of William Eggleston and Ralph Eugene Meatyard. \u003cb\u003eBrian Wallis\u003c\/b\u003e looks back at the politics, art, identity, and the \"culture wars\" of the 1980s, while \u003cb\u003eSusan Stryker\u003c\/b\u003e reflects on \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e's archive from the 1990s and its foregrounding of identity beyond the gender binary, evoking Catherine Opie, Elaine Reichek, and \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e's pathbreaking \"Male\/Female\" issue. Lynne Tillman illustrates how photographers searched for the tangible in an increasingly digital world in the 2000s, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Salamishah Tillet shows how the photo album became a source of connection and narrative amid the information overabundance of the 2010s.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.2 x 11.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 06, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42697285795903,"sku":"9781597115261","price":29.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/6c78bc9b833f072d5f8379bdbe6463d6.webp?v=1765008997","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/aperture-248-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}