Speaking the Language of Photography
Fall 2013
The fall 2013 issue of Aperture, the third featuring the magazine’s dramatic reconceptualization and redesign, is organized around the theme of “Playtime.” This issue explores how photography illuminates, facilitates, and participates in the many definitions of play—from humor and jokes to music and theater.
WORDS—The sharpest ideas in photography
Artist and composer Christian Marclay explores the sonic dimension of images
Robin Kelsey considers artists inspired by folly
Tim Davis diagnoses photogeliophobia: fear of funny photography
Erwin Wurm discusses his spontaneous sculptures and photography with Max Hollein
Brian Droitcour questions “play” in the age of information
David Campany on Jacques Tati‘sfilm Playtime and its influence on still photography
Artist Sophie Calle discusses her poetic series on stolen art
PICTURES—The magazine’s visual showcase
Jo Ann Callis‘sprovocative color photographs from the 1970s
Vintage images of the Night Climbers of Cambridge
Bruno Ceschel curates a contemporary Swiss Mess
Kazuyoshi Usui inhabits the imaginary Showa 88 era
James Mollison‘slatest work, Playgrounds
Bruno Munari‘s twentieth-century new media and performance photos
Eva Stenram‘s Drape: found-image montages of 1960s pinup girls
Columns:
What Matters Now?
Contributions by Ted Conover, Laura Kurgan, David McConville, and Eric Zimmerman
Redux
Aveek Sen on Italo Calvino’s “The Adventure of a Photographer”
Dispatches
Prajna Desai on Mumbai
Collectors: The Filmmakers
Contributions by Jan de Bont, Abbas Kiarostami, Mike Mills, and Matt Wolf
Studio Visit
Eric Banks with Saul Leiter in the East Village
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