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Guest edited by Stephanie Hueon Tung, “Being & Becoming: Asian in America,” considers how artists use the medium of photography to grapple with questions of visibility, belonging, and what it means to be Asian American.
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In the issue:
Words
Guest Editor’s Note
Asian American artists envision new possibilities for the future
Stephanie Hueon Tung
Landscapes & Memories
An-My Lê and Pao Houa Her discuss fiction and truth in the aftermath of war
A Conversation with Ryan Lee Wong
The Living Archive
How do artists engage with collections shaped by colonial histories?
Bakirathi Mani
Manzanar Stories
Toyo Miyatake’s document of life inside the notorious World War II–era internment camp
Ken Chen
The Downtown Diplomat
In 1980s New York, Tseng Kwong Chi played the role of a lifetime
Simon Wu
The Possibility of Home
The artists exploring domestic life
Xueli Wang
Movement & Form
Soichi Sunami’s collaboration with dancers—and museums
Yechen Zhao
Cut-ups
Priya Suresh Kambli’s collages about memory and migration
Amitava Kumar
How to Survive the American Dream
Reagan Louie’s decades-long meditation about China and Chinatown
A Conversation with Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander
Pictures
Pressing Against Looking
Gina Osterloh’s photographs resist the legibility of identity
Phoebe Chen
Parting Gift
Leonard Suryajaya’s exuberant scenes in Indonesia and Chicago
Tausif Noor
Viewfinder
Arthur Ou considers the act of seeing the world
Mimi Wong
North, South, East, West
Bruce Yonemoto reimagines the role of Asian men in US military history
Amy Sadao
Resident Aliens
Guanyu Xu’s room of his own
Xuan Juliana Wang
In Between You and Your Shadow
For Jarod Lew, a Detroit family home and restaurant invoke the past
Simon Han
Back
The PhotoBook Review
A conversation with the publisher Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi, Lena Fritsch on magazine culture in Japan, and a selection of recent photobooks by Jamel Shabazz, Bharat Sikka, Primary Information, Giulia Parlato, and Roe Ethridge
Endnote
Seven questions for Patty Chang
Plus—exhibitions from Judith Joy Ross, Widline Cadet, Gwangju Biennale, and Frank Stewart; Fabiana Moraes on a Brazilian community’s archive of photographs; Luca Fiore on Guido Guidi’s studio in Cesena, Italy; Thessaly La Force on Vân-Nhi Nguyen’s portrayal of Vietnamese youth; and Sunil Gupta on Lisette Model, E. M. Forster, and the pleasures of Bollywood.
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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.
Event
Staying In: Photographing the Asian American Home: June 14, 2023. A panel discussion with Jarod Lew, Miraj Patel, Arthur Ou, and Julie Quon with moderator Xueli Wang. Free and open to the public. Location: Parsons School of Design, Theresa Lang Community Center, 55 W 13th St, New York City, New York 10011.
