Issue 253: “Desire”

Issue 253: “Desire”

Aperture

Cover, Aperture, winter 2023.

December 13, 2023
Issue 253: “Desire”
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Aperture’s “Desire” issue—featuring an exclusive interview with Juergen Teller on the occasion of his major retrospective in Paris—presents a wide-ranging look at how photographs are expressions and conduits of our wants, needs, and wishes.

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In the issue:

Words
The Force of Life
“Juergen Teller on decades at the center of fashion”
A Conversation with Alistair O’Neill

She’s Got the Look
“A generation of women reconsiders the dynamics of being seen”
Amanda Maddox

More Real Than a Memory
“Melissa Shook’s rigorous and sensual self-portraits”
Lucy McKeon

Everything Shines
“How has the relationship between art and advertising evolved?”
Brian Dillon

The Spark
“How Jonathas de Andrade channels the thrill of intimacy”
Silas Martí

The Afterlives of Objects
“Ishiuchi Miyako reveals histories in the everyday”
Andrew Maerkle

Pictures
Daydreams
“Hisae Imai’s surreal life as a photographer”
Moeko Fujii

Black Beauty Still Lifes
“Nakeya Brown stages a story about femininity”
Lovia Gyarkye

This Odor
“Oto Gillen’s uncanny New York flowers”
Evan Moffitt

Kosen Ohtsubo’s Flower Planet
“The ikebana artist’s playful constructions mix performance and photography”
Daniel Abbe

Polk County
“Nabil Harb portrays community and landscape in central Florida”
Michael Adno

Things, Moments, Multitudes
“For Marcelo Gomes, beauty is in the pulse point”
Jesse Dorris

Back
The PhotoBook Review
Features a look inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s research library, a review of CCA’s recently opened exhibition The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project, and reviews of photobooks by Oliver Frank Chanarin, Lynne Cohen, Marina Gadonneix, Sofia Coppola, and Corita Kent, plus The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media. 

Endnote
Ten questions for Heji Shin

Plus—exhibition previews of In Our Hands, Viviane Sassen, Dorothea Lange, and An-My Lê; Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Tanya Traboulsi’s chronicles of Beirut; Brendan Embser on Mitch Epstein’s life in New York’s Lower East Side; Drew Sawyer on Seydou Keïta’s midcentury studio portraits; Suleman Sheikh Anaya on Mahtab Hussain and Muslim life in the United States; and Awol Erizku on Nas, Malcolm X, and a David Hammons performance in Senegal.

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Support has been provided by members of Aperture’s Magazine Council: Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović, Susan and Thomas Dunn, Kate Cordsen and Denis O’Leary, and Michael W. Sonnenfeldt, MUUS Collection.

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