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


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