Aperture No. 258 - Spring 2025
Photography & Painting
Aperture presents “Photography & Painting,” featuring artists from around the world who draw inspiration from both mediums in their work, illuminating how the dialogue between camera and canvas continues to unfold today in fascinating, unexpected ways.
















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Issue Details
This issue of Aperture will be focused on the relationship between painting and photography across a range of geographical and cultural contexts.
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of pages: 160
Number of images: 0
Publication date: 2025-03-01
Measurements: 8.5 x 10.6 inches
ISBN: 9781597115797
Support has been provided by members of Aperture’s Magazine Council: Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelovic, Susan and Thomas Dunn, Kate Cordsen and Denis O’Leary, and Michael W. Sonnenfeldt, MUUS Collection.
Table Of Contents
Features
EDITORS’ NOTE
Photography & Painting
ENDLESS RETURNS
The painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby bends time with found and family images
A conversation with Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi
IN THE STUDIO
How photographers have mythologized the painter’s worksite
Brian Dillon
BONNARD’S CAMERA
The radiant impressions of Pierre Bonnard
Lynne Tillman
VANITAS
Lia Darjes’s scavenged still lifes
Jesse Dorris
HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU, KID
Why are so many contemporary painters remaking famous images?
Jarrett Earnest
SEE STOP RUN PRINT
Christopher Wool reflects on his images and books
A conversation with Carrie Springer
PALIMPSEST
Shirana Shahbazi’s polychrome dreamworlds
Negar Azimi
ABSTRACTION AS EVENT. EVENT AS ABSTRACTION.
How did midcentury painting and photography speak to each other?
David Campany
SOUVENIRS
The shadowy revelations of Poppy Jones
Durga Chew-Bose
PHOTOREALISM’S LIVING HISTORY
Rediscovering the expansiveness of a movement in painting
Lucy Ives
LIQUID LIGHT
Kunié Sugiura’s genre-blending vision
Erin O’Toole
LIVING COLOR
Alice Wong’s overpaintings and the aesthetics of access
Mara Mills
THE SURFACE OF THINGS
Vija Celmins on a life of close looking and mark making
A conversation with Richard Learoyd
Columns
AGENDA
Linder, American Photography, Kyotographie, Lucia Moholy
BACKSTORY
Jane’a Johnson on Hood Century modernism
VIEWFINDER
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Sakir Khader’s intimate record of conflict
TIMELINE
Wendy A. Grossman on portrayals of African art
STUDIO VISIT
Seb Emina on Lise Sarfati’s Parisian atelier
CURRICULUM
Mohamed Bourouissa on Joseph Beuys, Alice Diop, and TIF
ENDNOTE
Amy Sherald on the American sublime
The PhotoBook Review
BREAK IT DOWN
Larissa Pham on the Vietnamese American New Wave
COVER STORIES
Russet Lederman on photobook covers that break the rules
THE ONLY GAME
Chiara Bardelli Nonino talks Bruno Munari with Jason Fulford
Reviews of photobooks by Yumna Al-Arashi, Larry Clark, Lars Tunbjörk, and more