Aperture Magazine
#237, Winter 2019

Spirituality

Wolfgang Tillmans guest edits Aperture’s “Spirituality” issue, which features contributions by artists, scientists, and writers who examine the different ways photography has been used to represent humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity.

FRONT
Agenda: Exhibitions to See
Gauri Gill, Dawoud Bey, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Because the Night

Backstory
Lucy Gallun on Tosh Matsumoto

Viewfinder
Sean L. Malin on John Pilson’s Trumpian Collages

Curriculum
By Roe Ethridge

BACK
Object Lessons
Freedom Rally, 1962

WORDS
What is Spirituality?
Can we live intelligently if we are bound by beliefs?
By Jiddu Krishnamurti

Spirituality Is Solidarity
A philosopher and an artist grapple with ideas of faith and freedom
Wolfgang Tillmans and Martin Hägglund in Conversation

Looking for Transcendence
Photography’s quest to portray the ineffable
By David Campany

Seeing the Unseeable
How scientists made the first-ever image of a black hole
Peter Gailson in Conversation with Elizabeth Kessler

The Darkness and the Light
Santu Mofokeng’s vision of ritual and landscape in South Africa
By Sean O’Toole

PICTURES
Minor White
Introduction by Ian Bourland

Susan Hiller
Introduction by Lynne Tillman

Wolfgang Tillmans
Project: Are photographs words?

Dave Swindells
Introduction by Sheryl Garratt

Protest: A Portfolio
Introduction by Siddhartha Mitter

Solidarity Is Spirituality
A Conversation between Mary Manning and Olivia Laing

Mare Nero
Introduction by Haleh Anvari

Harit Srikhao
Introduction by Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol

Generous support for the “Spirituality” issue of Aperture magazine is provided by the MurthyNAYAK Foundation. 

Significant support for Aperture magazine is provided by The Kanakia Foundation. Further generous support is provided, in part, by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.