From Aperture #212: Aveek Sen on Italo Calvino’s “The Adventure of a Photographer.”
The Editors introduce Aperture #212 (Fall 2013), which is organized around the theme of “Playtime.”
Jimena Canales discusses “Doc” Edgerton’s notebooks, in which he explored high-speed photography and strobe technologies.
Curator and art historian Lynne Cooke on Horst Ademeit’s enigmatic photographs.
Andrew Blum, Laura Poitras, Robert Klanten, and Anton Vidokle answer the question “What Matters Now?”
Brian Dillon considers perspective, observation, and enlightenment found at the periphery.
Jonathan Griffin visits photographer John Divola in advance of three simultaneous retrospectives.
What provokes us to pursue something, to want to find out more?
Lisa Oppenheim teases apart the individual steps of picture-making, wringing from the medium’s technical apparatus a surprisingly broad range of meanings.
Photo critic and historian Geoffrey Batchen uses the art of Joachim Schmid to discuss photograph as a medium of exchange.
What is photographic education today? The question elicits a wave of differing, often contesting answers.
The artists engage the medium’s urge to extract generic meaning from knotty specifics.
You may have to develop your own technology for your images. I’m not much interested in “straight” photography anymore.
The moment when still cameras began to include decent video options not only democratized filmmaking, but also marks the history of still images.
Penelope Umbrico speaks with art historian and intellectual-property lawyer Virginia Rutledge about the use of reproductions in our increasingly flattened image world.
Curator Christopher Y. Lew discusses our changing relationship to technology and to the Internet.
Jeff Wall speaks with Lucas Blalock about the current state of the medium, his recent work, and the freedom of the artist.
Andrew Norman Wilson speaks with curator Laurel Ptak about the ScanOps project.
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.
