Monday, November 8, 2010

Aperture (Fall 2010)

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

Contents:

FEATURES
  • WITNESS HEROES OF THE STORM: FIVE YEARS AFTER KATRINA Photographed and reported by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick, written by Debroah Willis. Portraits and stories of New Orleans's displaced residents.
  • ON LOCATION IN VISIBLE CITIES Photographs by Barney Kulok, words by Max Blagg. Poet Max Blagg responds to Kulok's recent cameraless landscapes of Manhattan.
  • ARCHIVE THE LAST THIRTY YEARS OF MEXICO A Film Compiled and Arranged by Salvador Toscano by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio and David M. J. Wood. A rediscovered photographic index of a film reveals new interpretations of tumultuous periods in Mexican history.
  • ROADS LESS TRAVELED RE-WILDING: MOVING OFF THE GRID IN AMERICA by Lucas Foglia. Photographs and interviews with self-sustaining Americans.
  • MOONLIGHTING ÓSCAR AND HIS TAXI by Martin Parr, photographs by Óscar Fernando Gómez. Scenes from Monterrey, Mexico, as framed by a taxicab window.
  • WORK AND PROCESS CLARE STRAND: THE SPOT MARKS THE X by David Campany. Traces and evidence in the cryptic work of an emerging photographer.
  • PHOTOGRAPHER'S PROJECT MIKE MANDEL: THE BASEBALL-PHOTOGRAPHER TRADING CARDS by Aaron Schuman. A reconsideration of Mandel's playful 1974 riff on celebrity in the world of photography.
  • THEME AND VARIATIONS AMERICA: NOWANDHERE A Multimedia Exhibition Organized and Curated by Eric Fischl Essay by E. L. Doctorow. A selection of works from Fischl's upcoming traveling ombibus art show.

  • NOTE
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • REVIEWS -- Vicki Goldberg on La Subversion des images -- Prajna Desai on Changing the Focus -- John Howell on Lincoln Center: Celebrating 50 Years -- Jason Oddy on Points of View -- Isabel Stevens on Where Three Dreams Cross
  • MEDIA WATCH -- Michael Lesy: Death in Dubai: How Too Much Information Cast Doubt on a Murder Investigation in the Middle East
  • FESTIVALS -- Jennifer Bajorek and Erin Haney on Mali's Recontres de Bamako -- Diana C. Stoll on China's Lianzhou International Photography Festival
  • EXCERPTS
  • MIND'S EYE -- DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller) on Herbert Ponting's Grotto in a Berg, 1911

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