Aperture #225
“On Feminism”
Winter 2016
The winter issue of Aperture, “On Feminism,” arrives at a moment when the power and influence women hold on the world stage is irrefutable, and the very idea of gender is central to conversations about equality across the country, and around the globe. “On Feminism” focuses on intergenerational dialogues, debates, and strategies of feminism in photography and considers the immense contributions by artists whose work articulates or interrogates representations of women in media and society. Across more than 100 years of photographs and images, “On Feminism” underscores how photography has shaped feminism as much as how feminism has shaped photography.
Contents
Words—The sharpest ideas in photography
“On Feminism”
Contributions by Catherine Morris, Zanele Muholi, Laurie Simmons, Johanna Fateman, Zackary Drucker, and A. L. Steiner
“Modern Women: David Campany in Conversation with Marta Gili, Julie Jones, and Roxana Marcoci”
The artists who redefined the course of 20th century photography
“The Feminist Avant-Garde”
In self-portraiture and body art, experimental pioneers of the 1970s
By Nancy Princenthal
“Sex Wars Revisited”
Lesbian erotica as critical rebellion
By Laura Guy
“A Taste of Power: Renée Cox in Conversation with Uri McMillan”
From Angela Davis to Beyoncé, the icons and avatars of black style
“History Is Ours”
The legacy of protest in video and performance
By Eva Díaz
“On Defiance”
How women have resisted representational photography
By Eva Respini
“Beyond Binary”
New visions of trans feminism
By Julia Bryan-Wilson
“Our Bodies, Online”
Feminist images in the age of Instagram
By Carmen Winant
Pictures—The magazine’s visual showcase
Cosey Fanni Tutti
Introduction by Alison M. Gingeras
Gillian Wearing
Introduction by Jennifer Blessing
Yurie Nagashima
Introduction by Lesley A. Martin
Hannah Starkey
Introduction by Sara Knelman
Katharina Gaenssler
Introduction by Yvonne Bialek
Josephine Pryde
Introduction by Alex Klein
Laia Abril
Introduction by Karen Archey
Farah Al Qasimi
Introduction by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Martine Syms
Introduction by Amanda Hunt
Elle Pérez
Introduction by Salamishah Tillet
Columns
Redux
Brian Wallis on Leonard Freed‘s Black in White America, 1968
Spotlight
Eli Durst‘s In Asmara by Alexandra Pechman
Curriculum
By Martha Rosler
Dispatches
Maria Nicolacopoulou on Athens
Object Lessons
Les Femmes de l’Avenir, 1900–1902
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