Aperture 223 - Summer 2016
Vision & Justice
Addresses the role of photography in the African American experience, guest edited by Sarah Lewis, distinguished author and art historian.
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Issue Details
Guest edited by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Vision & Justice addresses the role of photography in the African American experience.
This award-winning issue of Aperture magazine was released in summer 2016, in a political moment defined by the close of the Obama era and the steady rise of #BlackLivesMatter activism. As a racial reckoning continues in the United States, this powerful issue remains an essential resource for understanding the role of art in the movement for equity and social justice.
Rooted in the prescient thinking of Frederick Douglass, and his argument that social progress requires pictures, “Vision & Justice” includes a wide span of photographic projects by such luminaries as Lyle Ashton Harris, Sally Mann, Jamel Shabazz, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, and Deborah Willis, as well as the brilliant voices of a younger generation―Devin Allen, Awol Erizku, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Deana Lawson, and Hank Willis Thomas, among many others. Their portfolios are complemented by essays from some of the most influential voices in American culture, including contributions by celebrated writers, historians, and artists such as Vince Aletti, Teju Cole, Ava DuVernay, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Margo Jefferson, Wynton Marsalis, and Claudia Rankine.
“Vision & Justice” features two covers. This issue comes with an image by Richard Avedon, Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, with his father, Martin Luther King, Baptist minister, and his son, Martin Luther King III, Atlanta, Georgia, March 22, 1963.
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of pages: 128
Publication date: 2016-04-26
Measurements: 9.25 x 12 x 0.6 inches
ISBN: 9781597113656
Table Of Contents
Front
Guest Editor’s Note
Sarah Lewis
Collectors: The Jazz Musicians
Contributions by Wynton Marsalis, Ingrid Monson, Alicia Hall Moran, Jason Moran, and Somi
Curriculum
By Hank Willis Thomas
Redux
Bridget R. Cooks on Harlem on My Mind (1968)
Words
Frederick Douglass’s Camera Obscura
By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Black Photographers Annual
By Carla Williams
Black Lives, Silver Screen
Ava DuVernay and Bradford Young in Conversation
Love Visual: A Conversation with Haile Gerima
By Sarah Lewis and Dagmawi Woubshet
Picturing Obama
By Maurice Berger
Carrie Mae Weems: Around the Kitchen Table
Reflections by Dawoud Bey, Jennifer Blessing, Katori Hall, Robin Kelsey, and Salamishah Tillet
Pictures
Awol Erizku
Introduction by Steven Nelson
Toyin Ojih Odutola
Introduction by Claudia Rankine
Lorna Simpson
Introduction by Margo Jefferson
Annie Leibovitz
Introduction by Nell Painter
Deborah Willis
Introduction by Cheryl Finley
Sally Mann
Introduction by John Stauffer
Jamel Shabazz
Introduction by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Devin Allen
Introduction by Aaron Bryant
Leslie Hewitt
Introduction by Rujeko Hockley
Lyle Ashton Harris
Introduction by Vince Aletti
Radcliffe Roye
Introduction by Garnette Cadogan
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Introduction by Teju Cole
Dawoud Bey
Introduction by Leigh Raiford
Deana Lawson
Introduction by Thomas J. Lax
Back
Object Lessons
Thelma Golden on James VanDerZee, Christmas Morning, 1933
Online Exclusives
Mark Bradford’s Pride of Place
By Antwaun Sargent
Prison Portraits
By Nicole R. Fleetwood
Sheila Pree Bright in Conversation with Naima J. Keith
Deana Lawson and Nikki A. Greene in Conversation about the Emanuel 9
dream hampton in Conversation with Geena Rocero
Jamel Shabazz in Conversation with Michaela Angela Davis
The People’s Justice Murals
By Emily Raboteau
Richard Avedon and James Baldwin
By Brian Wallis
3 Reflections on Cinema and Archives
Catherine Gund, Shola Lynch, and Franklin Leonard
Renée Mussai in Conversation with Victor Peterson II
Ming Smith and the Kamoinge Workshop
By LeRonn P. Brooks
She Walked in Beauty
By Susan Fales-Hill
Student Reflections
Don’t Touch Our Hair
By Jeneé Osterheldt
Racial Innocence in Postwar America
By Maia Silber
Separate Cars on the Open Road
By Ian Askew
Envisioning the Right to Vote
By Jonathan Karp
The Cotton Bowl and the Super Bowl
By Eli Wilson Pelton
In California, Trees as Witness and Living Memorial
By Elizabeth Huber
Framing Justice
Nathan Cummings, Josiah Corbus, Ted Waechter, Christopher Chow, and Larisa Owusu
Art and Activism in a Contested Democracy
Taiyo Na, Jonathan Michael Square, Carmen Hermo, Nina Crews, Valentine Umansky