Monday, March 15, 2010

Aperture Issue No. 198 (Spring 2010)

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

Contents:

FEATURES
  • CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Head to Head: A Conversation with Elliott Erwitt & Marc Riboud by Amanda Hopkinson - Two titans of photography meet, spar, reminisce, and work out the medium's kinks.
  • ARCHIVE Femme Fatale: Zoe Crosher's Reconsidered Archive of Michelle duBois by Jan Tumlir - A life of self-invention and role-playing, told through personal photographs.
  • DIALOGUE Anders Petersen: Finding a Fever Interview with JH Engström - The Swedish photographer discusses a long career creating disquieting images.
  • ON LOCATION Robert Voit: New Trees - The nature of our future: phony--and telephony--trees.
  • MIXING THE MEDIA On Holiday by Mary Panzer - How one of the greatest illustrated magazines urged postwar America to see the wider world.
  • ARTIST'S PROJECT John Gossage: The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler/Map of Babylon by Gerry Badger - A selection from Gossage's recent foray into color photography.
  • WORK AND PROCESS Walid Raad (Re)Invents the Archive by Alan Gilbert - An overview of Raad's projects that draw on both personal history and conceptual practice.
  • WITNESS The Iraqi Diaspora Notes by Scott Anderson; Photographs by Paolo Pellegrin - Stories and photographs of Iraqis displaced by the war.

REGULARS

NOTE

CONTRIBUTORS

REVIEWS

  • Geoffrey Batchen on The Pictures Generation
  • Aaron Schuman on Ishimoto Yasuhiro
  • Brian Sholis on Dance with Camera
  • Tim Davis on the new New Topographics
  • James Yood on Barbara Crane
  • Shelley Rice on Darkside II
  • Giuseppe Merlino on Santiago Sierra

BOOKS

  • Extreme Ice Now: James Balog interviewed by Fred Ritchin
  • Frederick Kaufman on Beaumont's Kitchen
  • Brian Dillon on Photography Degree Zero

EXCERPTS

MINDS EYE

  • David Cole on the changing of the guard at Guantánamo Bay

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