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Aperture #217 – Editors’ Note
The following note first appeared in Aperture magazine #217, Winter 2014. Subscribe here to read it first, in print or online. Natalie Czech, A Poem by Repetition by Emmett Williams II , 2013 Are...
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A Conversation With Karl Lagerfeld (1991)
by Andrew Wilkes In celebration of Aperture‘s Fall 2014 “Fashion” issue, we present a legendary interview from the magazine’s archive. The following was originally published in Aperture’s Issue #122,...
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Erica Baum: Wordplay
The following note first appeared in Aperture magazine #217, Winter 2014, “Lit.” Subscribe here to read it first, in print or online. Introduction by Nat Trotman Erica Baum is fascinated by the printed...
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Words vs. Images
The following note first appeared in Aperture magazine #217, Winter 2014, “Lit.” Subscribe here to read it first, in print or online. What kind of pressure does photography place on the written word...
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Isabel Stevens on Chris Marker’s “Petite Planète”
By Isabel Stevens In an online-only story for Aperture magazine #217, Winter, “Lit,” a look at the little-known series of travel book series directed by Chris Marker. Throughout his 60-year career,...
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Walker Evans & the Written Word by David Campany
The following note first appeared in Aperture magazine #217, Winter 2014, “Lit.” Subscribe here to read it first, in print or online. How did Flaubert, Baudelaire, Proust, and other writers inform the...
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Cruising and Transcendence in the Photographs of Minor White
Writer and curator Kevin Moore on Aperture founding editor Minor White’s convoluted relationship with photography and sexuality. This essay is an online-only feature accompanying Aperture magazine’s...
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Geoff Dyer & Janet Malcolm on Photography and Writing
The following conversation first appeared in Aperture magazine #217, Winter 2014, “Lit.” Subscribe here to read it in full, in print or online. Of the influential British art critic and novelist John...
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Rescripted After a conversation between Moyra Davey and Matthew S. Witkovsky
The following note first appeared in Aperture magazine #217, Winter 2014, “Lit.” Subscribe here to read it first, in print or online. Literary and personal histories coalesce in Moyra Davey’s elegant...
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Queer Aperture #218 – Editors’ Note
The following note first appeared in Aperture magazine #218, Spring 2015. Subscribe here to read it first, in print or online. Minor White, Tom Murphy, San Francisco, 1948, No. 8 from the series The...
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Gay Semiotics Revisited
In 1977, San Francisco photographer Hal Fischer produced his photo-text project Gay Semiotics, a seminal examination of the “hanky code” used to signal sexual preferences of cruising gay men in the...
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Richard Meyer On the Term “Queer”
Untitled (Pier, David Wojnarowicz project), 2001–07 For the “Queer” issue, Aperture magazine asked Vince Aletti, Richard Meyer, and Catherine Opie to reflect on the term queer and its relationship with...
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Sophie Hackett on Queer Looking
Three decades ago Joan E. Biren, an American photographer, crisscrossed the country presenting a continually changing slide show that told an alternative history of photography, one with lesbians as...
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Zanele Muholi’s Faces & Phases
Eva Mofokeng, Somizy Sincwala, and Katiso Kgope, Parktown, 2014 For more than a decade, South African photographer Zanele Muholi created a visual record of black lesbians in her home country....
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Nakahira’s Circulation
By Matthew S. Witkovsky A mythical figure in the story of Japanese photography, Takuma Nakahira is a founder of Provoke (Purovoku), the short-lived experimental magazine that featured photographers...
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LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Curriculum
Growing up in Braddock, Pennsylvania, photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier saw firsthand the economic and environmental decline and racism that affected her industrial hometown, subjects she explores...
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On Chance and Photography
By Robin Kelsey and Samuel Ewing William Henry Fox Talbot, The Open Door, 1844. Courtesy Hans P. Kraus Jr., New York To what degree is photography dependent on chance? If photography is a chance...
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Tokyo Aperture #219 – Editors’ Note
The following note first appeared in Aperture magazine #219, Summer 2015. Subscribe here to read it first, in print or online. Takashi Homma, Tokyo, 2015 Tokyo conjures a distinctive, if familiar,...
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Kikuji Kawada in conversation with Ryuichi Kaneko
G.I. and a Woman at Ueno Park, 1953 Kikuji Kawada is one of Japan’s most celebrated postwar photographers. In 1959, Kawada—along with Shomei Tomatsu, Eikoh Hosoe, Ikko Narahara, Akira Sato, and Akira...
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Magazine Work
Camera Mainichi, November 1968, photograph by Kishin Shinoyama Camera Mainichi, December 1967, photograph by Haruo Tomiyama Asahi Camera, October 1969, photograph by Kishin Shinoyama Asahi Camera,...
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