The Magazine of Photography and Ideas
Family
“The family photograph is a marker of myths,” Glen Helfand writes in Aperture’s Winter 2018 issue, “Family.” At a moment of conservative backlash to queer rights and of the separation of families at the U.S. border, the image of the family you have—or the family you choose in search of connections across race and sexuality—has never been more important. “Family” features essays by literary figures including Sheila Heti, Pico Iyer, and John Jeremiah Sullivan, as well as photography by Diana Markosian, whose family emigrated from Russia to California; Liz Johnson Artur, who has spent her career photographing individuals of the African diaspora; and a special portfolio by Stefan Ruiz of the House of Xtravaganza, one of New York’s legendary ballroom houses. Throughout “Family,” artists and photographers transform the group portrait through appropriation, performance, conceptual intervention, and long-term community engagement.
“Family” is on newsstands December 4.
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Table of Contents
Front
Agenda
Graciela Iturbide, Don McCullin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Claudia Andujar
Dispatches
Jyoti Dhar on Sri Lanka
Spotlight
Ka-Man Tse’s narrow distances
by Stephanie H. Tung
Curriculum
by Hannah Starkey
Words
Editors’ Note
Liz Johnson Artur: Black Balloon Archive
by Ekow Eshun
Into the Album
by Carmen Winant
Domestic Labor
Lynne Tillman and Justine Kurland in Conversation
Diana Markosian: Santa Barbara
by Rebecca Bengal
Masahisa Fukase: Father Figure
by Tomo Kosuga
American Families
Deborah Willis in Conversation with Rhea L. Combs
Pictures
Motoyuki Daifu
Introduction by Dan Abbe
Charlie Engman
Introduction by Sheila Heti
Tammy Rae Carland
Introduction by Glen Helfand
Kathryn Harrison
Introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan
House of Xtravaganza by Stefan Ruiz
Introduction by Mikelle Street
Tenzing Dakpa
Introduction by Pico Iyer
George Awde
Introduction by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
David Armstrong
Introduction by Jesse Dorris
Christopher Anderson
Introduction by Sara Knelman
Back
Object Lessons
Cathy Cade’s Archives, 1970s–80s
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