{"product_id":"70thanniversary-issue","title":"70thAnniversary Issue","description":"\u003cb\u003eAnniversary issue features seven original commissions by leading photographers and artists, and seven essays about Aperture’s legacy by award-winning writers and critics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\n\n\nThis fall, \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates seventy years in print with an issue that explores the magazine’s past while charting its future. Reflecting on the founding editors’ original mission and drawing on \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e’s global community of photographers, writers, and thinkers, this issue features seven original artist commissions as well as seven essays by some of the most incisive writers working today––each engaging with the magazine’s archive in distinct ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Among the original artist commissions, \u003cb\u003eIñaki Bonillas\u003c\/b\u003e selects iconic images and texts from the \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e’s archive from the 1950s to produce open-ended narrative collages. \u003cb\u003eDayanita Singh\u003c\/b\u003e reflects on the 1960s and the family album as a serious photographic form. \u003cb\u003eYto Barrada\u003c\/b\u003e enacts sculptural interventions to issues and spreads from the 1970s, using remnants of the late artist Bettina Grossman’s color paper cutouts. \u003cb\u003eMark Steinmetz\u003c\/b\u003e draws inspiration from the magazine’s Summer 1987 issue, “Mothers \u0026amp; Daughters,” to compose a photo essay of his wife, the photographer Irina Rozovsky, and their daughter Amelia. Considering the matrix of censorship, art, and religion in the 1990s, \u003cb\u003eJohn Edmonds\u003c\/b\u003e creates a tableau about family, faith, and grief. \u003cb\u003eHannah Whitaker\u003c\/b\u003e explores the turn of the century, and the ways in which our anxieties about technology create speculative worlds. And \u003cb\u003eHank Willis Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e draws on \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e’s issues from the 2010s to create a series of collages that reference traditional quilt patterning, revivifying history and remixing the present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking back upon \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e’s legacy, \u003cb\u003eDarryl Pinckney\u003c\/b\u003e reconsiders the photographer and editor Minor White, whose vision shaped the magazine for nearly two decades, beginning in the 1950s. \u003cb\u003eOlivia Laing\u003c\/b\u003e writes about the 1960s and the tensions between reportage and artistry in the work of Dorothea Lange, W. Eugene Smith, and others. \u003cb\u003eGeoff Dyer\u003c\/b\u003e revisits to the 1970s, which he considers a decade of new ideas and deeper reflection on the medium, looking into the works of William Eggleston and Ralph Eugene Meatyard. \u003cb\u003eBrian Wallis\u003c\/b\u003e looks back at the politics, art, identity, and the “culture wars” of the 1980s, while \u003cb\u003eSusan Stryker\u003c\/b\u003e reflects on \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e’s archive from the 1990s and its foregrounding of identity beyond the gender binary, evoking Catherine Opie, Elaine Reichek, and \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e’s pathbreaking “Male\/Female” issue. Lynne Tillman illustrates how photographers searched for the tangible in an increasingly digital world in the 2000s, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Salamishah Tillet shows how the photo album became a source of connection and narrative amid the information overabundance of the 2010s.","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40254750621779,"sku":"9781597115261","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781597115261.jpg?v=1765335611","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/70thanniversary-issue","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}