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Aperture celebrates seventy years with an issue that explores the magazine’s past while charting its future. Reflecting on the founding editors’ original mission and drawing on Aperture’s global community of photographers, writers, and thinkers, this issue features original commissions by seven artists and essays by seven of the most incisive writers working today—each engaging with their chosen decade from the magazine’s history.
In the issue:
Words
Seven writers on seven decades.
1950s: The Invention of Minor White
Finding spiritual liberation though photography
Darryl Pinckney
1960s: Did You See Those Pictures?
The tensions between reportage and artistry
Olivia Laing
1970s: The Idea of Photography
A decade of new thought and reflection on the medium
Geoff Dyer
1980s: Edges of Illusion
Artists meet the culture wars
Brian Wallis
1990s: The Shape of Trans to Come
How do we represent identity beyond the binary?
Susan Stryker
2000s: Real Life and Living Memory
Searching for the tangible in a digital world
Lynne Tillman
2010s: Everyday People
A photo-album for the future
Salamishah Tillet
Pictures
Seven photographers on seven decades.
1950s: Iñaki Bonillas
Compositions
Iconic images and texts become narrative collages
1960s: Dayanita Singh
The Photography of Nony Singh
Could a family album have been presented as serious photography?
1970s: Yto Barrada
Bettina’s Color-aid Papers
With sculptural interventions, encounters with the printed page
1980s: Mark Steinmetz
Irina & Amelia
The enduring influence of an issue about mothers and daughters
1990s: John Edmonds
Father’s Jewels
A tableau about family, grief, and religion
2000s: Hannah Whitaker
Millennium Pictures
How anxiety about technology creates speculative worlds
2010s: Hank Willis Thomas
Quilts
In textile-inspired works, a vibrant tribute to artists and mentors
Plus—Evan Moffitt on Wolfgang Tillmans’s career retrospective; Casey Quackenbush on Mikki Ferrill; Randy Kennedy on Christopher Anderson; Ryan Ho Kilpatrick on Billy H.C. Kwok; Kwanele Sosibo on Mikhael Subotzky; Elle Pérez on Peter Hujar, E. Jane, and the judges of Legendary; seven questions for Hua Hsu; and The PhotoBook Review: A conversation with the designer Irma Boom and a selection of recent photobooks.
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Support has been provided by members of Aperture’s Magazine Council: The Kanakia Foundation, Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović, Susan and Thomas Dunn, and Michael W. Sonnenfeldt, MUUS Collection. Additional support is provided in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Aperture Foundation’s programs are made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
