Speaking the Language of Photography
Summer 2013
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The Summer 2013 issue of Aperture, the second featuring the magazine’s dramatic reconceptualization and redesign, is organized around the theme of “Curiosity.” Contributors examine photography’s relationship to such subjects as exploration, scientific discovery, and ways of seeing. The desire to lay bare the unknown is perpetual, and the issue features photographic investigations from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Yet, whether the realm is art or science, photography may lead not to answers but to further questions. As curator Joel Smith notes, photographs can “doubt as well as certify, negate as well as indicate, embody absence as well as substance.”
WORDS—The sharpest ideas in photography
Artist Trevor Paglen in conversation with science historian Peter Galison
Brian Dillon on photography and sidelong discovery
David Campany on photography’s alien landscapes
Jennifer Tucker on nineteenth-century photographic exploration
And more
PICTURES—The magazine’s visual showcase
Lynne Cooke on the “Secret Universe” of Horst Ademeit
Michael Famighetti in conversation with Thomas Ruff (available online)
Sarah Bay Williams on Robert Cumming‘s conceptual investigations
Joel Smith on photographs of nothing
Brian Sholis on Lisa Oppenheim‘s elemental process
Jimena Canales on the lab notebooks of Harold E. “Doc” Edgerton
And more
COLUMNS:
What Matters Now?
Contributions by Andrew Blum, Robert Klantern, Laura Poitras, Anton Vidokle
Redux
Ulrich Baer on Brassaï’s Proust in the Power of Photography
Dispatches
Sean O’Toole on Cape Town
Collectors: The Architects
Contributions by Denise Scott Brown, Neil Denari, John Pawson, Annabelle Selldorf
Studio Visit
Jonathan Griffin on John Divola and his Riverside workplace
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