Monday, December 14, 2009

Aperture No. 197 (Winter 2009)

The latest issue of Aperture is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

FEATURES
  • Work In Progress Carrie Mae Weems: History and Dreams by A. M. Weaver - Weems's work with photography explores the undercurrents of power.
  • Archive Raymond Cauchetier & The French New Wave by Richard Brody - Behind the scenes with Godard, Truffaut, and other auteurs of cinema.
  • Essay Children Of The Revolution: Contemporary Iranian Photography by Anthony Downey - A look at recent photography from Iran, three decades after the revolution.
  • On Location Urban Archaeology Photographs and commentary by Andrew Moore - The surreal decay of the American city.
  • Dialogue Robert Adams: Summer Nighs, Walking Interview with Joshua Chuang - Adams discusses picture editing, the goals of art, and his classic series of nocturnes.
  • Mixing the Media The World According to Maira: Maira Kalman's Recent Observations by Francine Prose - The celebrated illustrator plays with photographs in her colorful body of work.
  • Dialogue Nick Knight: Showman Interview with Diane Smyth - One of fashion photography's innovators considers his career and process.
  • Work and Process Songs Left Out of Nan Goldin's Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Greil Marcus - Marcus on the sound track of Goldin's seminal slide show

NOTE

CONTRIBUTORS

REVIEWS

  • Vicki Goldberg on Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard
  • Susan Morgan on Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
  • James Yood on PhotoDimensional
  • Brian Dillon on Roni Horn
  • Noemi Smolik on Czech photography
  • Brian Sholis on Jochen Lempert

MEDIA WATCH

  • Alfredo Jaar and David Levi Strauss: A New Lament

CONFERENCES

  • Philip Gefter on two Robert Mapplethorpe symposia

EXCERPTS

BOOKS

  • Charles Bowden on Eugene Richards's The Blue Room

MIND'S EYE

  • Karen Finley on the "Michelle Look"

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