Aperture 225 - Winter 2016
On Feminism
“On Feminism” focuses on intergenerational dialogues, debates, and strategies of feminism in photography and considers the immense contributions by artists whose work articulates or interrogates representations of women in media and society. Across more than one hundred years of photographs and images, “On Feminism” underscores how photography has shaped feminism as much as how feminism has shaped photography.
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Highlights how photography has
shaped feminism as much as how
feminism has shaped photography.
The winter issue of Aperture, “On Feminism,” arrives at a moment when the power and influence women hold on the world stage is irrefutable, and the very idea of gender is central to conversations about equality across the country, and around the globe. “On Feminism” focuses on intergenerational dialogues, debates, and strategies of feminism in photography and considers the immense contributions by artists whose work articulates or interrogates representations of women in media and society. Across more than one hundred years of photographs and images, “On Feminism” underscores how photography has shaped feminism as much as how feminism has shaped photography.
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of pages: 132
Publication date: 2016-11-22
Measurements: 9.25 x 12 x 0.6 inches
ISBN: 9781597113670
This issue was supported in part by the Anne Levy Fund.
Table Of Contents
Front
Redux
Brian Wallis on Leonard Freed’s Black in White America, 1968
Spotlight: Eli Durst’s In Asmara
by Alexandra Pechman
Curriculum
by Martha Rosler
Words
On Feminism
Contributions by Catherine Morris, Zanele Muholi, Laurie Simmons, Johanna Fateman, Zackary Drucker, and A. L. Steiner
Modern Women: David Campany in Conversation with Marta Gili, Julie Jones, and Roxana Marcoci
The Feminist Avant-Garde
by Nancy Princenthal
Sex Wars Revisited
by Laura Guy
A Taste of Power: Renée Cox in Conversation with Uri McMillan
History Is Ours
by Eva Díaz
On Defiance
by Eva Respini
Pictures
Cosey Fanni Tutti
Introduction by Alison M. Gingeras
Gillian Wearing
Introduction by Jennifer Blessing
Yurie Nagashima
Introduction by Lesley A. Martin
Hannah Starkey
Introduction by Sara Knelman
Katharina Gaenssler
Introduction by Yvonne Bialek
Josephine Pryde
Introduction by Alex Klein
Laia Abril
Introduction by Karen Archey
Farah Al Qasimi
Introduction by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Martine Syms
Introduction by Amanda Hunt
Back
Object Lessons
Les Femmes de l’Avenir, 1900–1902
Online Exclusives
A Portrait of the Artist as Claude Cahun
Gillian Wearing in Conversation with Nicholas Cullinan
The Radical Power of the Black Feminine Gaze
by Ladi’Sasha Jones
Laurie Simmons and Molly Ringwald are Playing with the Big Boys
Notes on a Scandal
by Rayya Badran
The Kids Aren’t All Right
by Prajna Desai
Command the Gaze
by M. Whiteford
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