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- 23.5 x 30.5 cm
- 132 pages
- 978-1-59711-4-189
“In this contentious moment in history, the stories we tell are a social responsibility.” —Sandra Cisneros
How does the photographer navigate our new national order? As debates about the economic future of the United States continue into a controversial presidential administration, the spring issue of Aperture, “American Destiny,” offers an urgent reflection on photography, labor, and community. From agricultural workers to those toiling on the factory floor, from regional cities weathering years of postindustrial decline to refugee populations assimilating into the heartland, the photographers featured in this issue are bound by a desire to reveal how lives are shaped by the ebb and flow of the economy. “American Destiny” maps geographies of economic promises unfulfilled, weighing how the interrelated factors of class, sexism, education, shifting demographics, racism, and stagnant wages have influenced social life in the United States.
FRONT
Redux
Sara Knelman on Photoanalysis, 1973
Collectors: The Travel Writers
Contributions by William Finnegan, Pico Iyer, Suketu Mehta, and Stephanie Rosenbloom
Dispatches
Kaya Genç on Istanbul
Curriculum
by Moyra Davey and Jason Simon
BACK
Object Lessons
Worker Badges from G. & G. Precision Works, ca. 1940
WORDS
Editors’ Note: American Destiny
Witness: LaToya Ruby Frazier in Conversation with Kellie Jones
The enduring images of the civil rights movement
The Working Life
How do photographs describe the work we do?
by David Campany
Chauncy Hare's Protest
A trenchant view of 1970s America
by Rebecca Bengal
Central Valley: Katy Grannan in Conversation with Sarah M. Miller
Under blinding sunlight, the people of Highway 99
Fred Lonidier: The Agitator
Labor relations, union dues, and visual activism
by Brian Wallis
Allan Sekula: Aerospace Folktales
Dreams and illusions of the postwar economy
by Drew Sawyer
PICTURES
Gregory Halpern
Introduction by Brian Sholis
Alessandra Sanguinetti
Introduction by Chris Jennings
Carolyn Drake
Introduction by Garnette Cadogan
Mark Neville
Introduction by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
Kathya Maria Landeros
Introduction by Sandra Cisneros
Anthony Lepore
Introduction by Jonathan Griffin
Jim Goldberg & Donovan Wylie
Introduction by Laura Wexler and Chris Klatell
