Aperture 243 - Summer 2021
Delhi: Looking Out/Looking In
Aperture presents a special issue focused on the relationship between photography, urbanism, and activist trajectories from within and outside Delhi. Guest edited by Rahaab Allana, curator of the Delhi-based Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, “Delhi: Looking Out/Looking In” continues the magazine’s series of city-centric issues.
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This summer, Aperture presents a special issue focused on the relationship between photography, urbanism, and activist trajectories from Delhi. Guest edited by Rahaab Allana, the Alkazi Foundation’s lead curator, the issue explores multiple incarnations of the city’s photographic culture, from O. P. Sharma’s experimental works from the 1960s to Aditi Jain’s intimate tableaux of Delhi’s trans community today. Interviews with revered writer Arundhati Roy and with Bangladesh’s best-known photojournalist, Shahidul Alam, illuminate sites of protest in the city and throughout South Asia. Skye Arundhati Thomas revisits Sheba Chhachhi’s feminist staged portraits from the 1980s and ’90s. Featuring a cross section of dynamic image-makers and thinkers, such as Jyoti Dhar, Sunil Gupta, Ishan Tankha, and Anshika Varma, and emerging voices Uzma Mohsin and Prarthna Singh, the issue is a distinctive meditation on regionalism, politics, and identity, through archival and contemporary photographic viewpoints.
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of pages: 140
Publication date: 2021-06-08
Measurements: 9.25 x 12 x 0.6 inches
ISBN: 9781597115049
Significant support of Aperture magazine is provided by The Kanakia Foundation and by Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović. Aperture gratefully acknowledges additional lead support for this issue provided by the MurthyNAYAK Foundation. Further generous support is provided in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Aperture Foundation’s programs are made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Table Of Contents
Front
Agenda
Made in L.A., The Paradox of Stillness, Lorraine O’Grady, Lynn Hershman Leeson
Day Jobs
Rebecca Bengal on Susan Meiselas’s early collaborations in South Carolina
Spotlight
Mikelle Street on Donavon Smallwood’s images of Black tranquility in Central Park
Curriculum
Dawoud Bey on John Coltrane, Jason Moran, and the writing of Sarah M. Broom
Words
Guest Editor’s Note
The dynamic images and social landscapes of a restless city
Rahaab Allana
The City as a Novel
Arundhati Roy on life and politics in Delhi
A Conversation with Shohini Ghosh
The Photobook as Public Space
How can photobooks be a platform for personal narratives?
Deepali Dewan in Conversation with Indu Antony and Kaamna Patel
The Printed World
The midcentury magazine that offered cosmopolitan visions of India
Sabeena Gadihoke
Direct Action
Sheba Chhachhi and the spirit of feminist activism
Skye Arundhati Thomas
Visible Cities
The films of Anamika Haksar and Priya Sen
Latika Gupta
The Lives of Buildings
Photographing India’s modern architecture
Kaiwan Mehta
On Freedom and Resistance
Shahidul Alam on the images and activism that inspired a region
A Conversation with Christopher Pinney
We Were There
Sunil Gupta’s vision for a queer politics of belonging
Shanay Jhaveri
Pictures
O. P. Sharma
Light Work
Diva Gujral
Uzma Mohsin
Songkeepers
Jyoti Dhar
Ishan Tankha
A Peal of Spring Thunder
Amitava Kumar
Aditi Jain
The Glow in the Mirror
Adwait Singh
Collective Shift
Across South Asia, photographers are banding together to tell new stories
Anshika Varma
Srinivas Kuruganti
American Diary
Sunaina Maira
Prarthna Singh
One Hundred Days of Resistance
Kamayani Sharma
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