Aperture No. 193 (Winter 2008)

The latest issue of Aperture has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. Here are the features from the contents page:

• Archive - A Magazine in the Making by Peter C. Bunnell. A look at the first issue of Aperture on the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the magazine's founding editor.
• Witness - Susan Meiselas: Nicaragua by John Berger. Berger considers Meiselas's powerful project on Nicaragua's civil war in the 1970s.
• Mixing the Media - The Author As Photographer: Early Soviet Writers and the Camera by Erika Wolf. In the post-revolution Soviet Union, authors who tried their hands at photography.
• Photographer's Project - Phillip Toledano: Phonesex. Portraits of behind-the-scenes workers who make a living with their voices.
• Portfolio - Richard Misrach: Untitled. A selection from Misrach's newest body of work.
• Essay - Deep In The Archive by Ulrich Baer. An exploration of photography that engages the concept of the archive.
• On Location - Guy Tillim: Things As They Seem, interview with Joanna Lehan. Photographs that document colonial-era architecture and decay throughout Africa.
• Work and Process - On The Edge of Clear Meaning: Reconsidering the Work of John Wood by David Levi Strauss. Wood's photographs and photo-based multimedia works tackle politics with poetry.
• Roads Less Traveled - Disappearing Giants, photographs and notes by Michael "Nick" Nichols. The veteran wildlife photographer tracks endangered elephants in Chad and Kenya.