Aperture 198 - Spring 2010
Aperture 198
Portfolios and Essays from Elliott Erwitt, Marc Riboud, Amanda Hopkinson, Zoe Crosher, Michelle Dubois, Jan Tumlir, Anders Petersen, JH Engström, Robert Voit, Mary Panzer, John Gossage, Gerry Badger, Walid Raad, Alan Gilbert, Scott Anderson, and Paolo Pellegrin.
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Portfolios and Essays from Elliott Erwitt, Marc Riboud, Amanda Hopkinson, Zoe Crosher, Michelle Dubois, Jan Tumlir, Anders Petersen, JH Engström, Robert Voit, Mary Panzer, John Gossage, Gerry Badger, Walid Raad, Alan Gilbert, Scott Anderson, and Paolo Pellegrin.
In the spring 2010 issue of Aperture, celebrated Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin and writer Scott Anderson explore the “Iraqi Diaspora,” through photographs and poignant interviews with refugee families in Jordan and Syria; poet and critic Alan Gilbert considers Walid Raad’s conceptual documentary projects; Gerry Badger introduces John Gossage’s first work with color photography, the series “Map of Babylon” and “The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler”; historian Mary Panzer revisits the heyday of “Holiday” magazine, a postwar travel magazine that boasted an impressive roster of photographers, from Robert Capa to Slim Aarons.
Other features include a conversation between Swedish photographers Anders Peterson and J.H. Engström; German photographer Robert Voit’s austere documentation of cell-phone tower trees around the globe; author Amanda Hopkinson mediates a conversation with two classic photographers, Marc Riboud and Elliott Erwitt; and Jan Tumlir, curator and professor at the Art Center College of Design and University of Southern California, discusses Zoe Crosher’s project, “The Reconsidered Archive of Michelle duBois.” Exhibition reviews include Geoffrey Batchen on “The Pictures Generation,” Aaron Schuman on Ishimoto Yasuhiro, Giuseppe Merlino on Santiago Sierra, Shelley Rice on “Darkside II,” James Yood on Barbara Crane, Tim Davis on “New New Topographics” and Brian Sholis on “Dance with Camera.”
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of pages: 88
Publication date: 2010-05-31
Measurements: 9.5 x 11.3 x 0.2 inches
ISBN: 9781597111485
Table Of Contents
Head to Head: A Conversation with Elliott Erwitt & Marc Riboud
by Amanda Hopkinson
Two titans of photography meet, spar, reminisce, and work out the medium’s kinks.
Femme Fatale: Zoe Crosher’s Reconsidered Archive of Michelle duBois
by Jan Tumlir
A life of self-invention and role-playing, told through personal photographs.
Anders Petersen: Finding a Fever
Interview with JH Engström
The Swedish photographer discusses a long career creating disquieting images.
Robert Voit: New Trees
The nature of our future: phony—and telephony—trees.
On Holiday
by Mary Panzer
How one of the great illustrated magazines urged postwar America to see the wider world.
John Gossage: The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler/Map of Babylon
by Gerry Badger
A selection from Gossage’s recent foray into color photography.
Walid Raad (Re)invents the Archive
by Alan Gilbert
An overview of Raad’s projects that draw on both personal history and conceptual practice.
The Iraqi Diasporaz
Notes by Scott Anderson, Photographs by Paolo Pellegrin
Stories and photographs of Iraqis displaced by the war.
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