Aperture 211 - Summer 2013

Curiosity

Between science and art, revisiting photography’s role in discovery and experimentation.

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Between science and art, revisiting photography’s
role in discovery and experimentation.

This edition of Aperture focuses on “Curiosity.” Taking its name from the Mars Rover, which has reminded us that a fundamental purpose of photography is to show us something new, the articles and portfolios ask: what can we learn by revisiting photography’s role in discovery, experimentation and exploration?

The issue toggles between past and present, and between science and art, and features Jennifer Tucker on Victorian science photography, spectacle and rational amusement; Kelley Wilder on what it means for photography to make visible the invisible; Brian Dillon on the cosmic and the mundane; a conversation between artist Trevor Paglen and the eminent science historian Peter Galison; a selection from Harold “Doc” Edgerton‘s lab books; David Campany on photographic abstraction and perception; curator Joel Smith’s guide to “photographic nothing”; and portfolios by British photographer Stephen Gill, Amsterdam-based artist Eva-Fiore Kovakovsky, curator Lynne Cooke on Horst Ademeit’s mysterious annotated Polaroids and much more.
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of pages: 128
Publication date: 2013-05-15
Measurements: 9.2 x 11.9 x 0.5 inches
ISBN: 9781597112338


Table Of Contents

Front

Words

Attention! Photography and Sidelong Discovery>
by Brian Dillon

The Lives of Images
Peter Galison in conversation with Trevor Paglen

Marvels and Spectacles: Photographic Exploration and the “First Glimpse”
by Jennifer Tucker

What on Earth? Photography’s Alien Landscapes
by David Campany

Curious about Color
by Kelley Wilder

Pictures

Stephen Gill: Coexistence

Horst Ademeit: Secret Universe
Introduction by Lynne Cooke

Harold E. Edgerton: “Doc” and His Laboratory Notebooks
by Jimena Canales

Mårten Lange: Machina

Thomas Ruff: Photograms for the New Age
Conversation with Michael Famighetti

Photographs of Nothing
by Joel Smith

Robert Cumming Invents the Photographs
by Sarah Bay Williams

Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky: Specimens

Lisa Oppenheim: Elemental Process
Introduction by Brian Sholis

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