Aperture: The Magazine of Photography and Ideas
“Sounds”
This issue delves into the relationship between sound and image. How have photographers drawn inspiration from music? How have cultures of image making developed in tandem with music making? Whether capturing an intoxicating performance, or individuals lost in dance or caught in an ecstatic moment of listening, photographs give form to the ways sounds move us. This issue’s features include a profile on William Eggleston and his long-standing passion for music, a conversation with Vancouver-based photo-conceptualist Stan Douglas, a remembrance of the legendary Malian photographer Malick Sidibé, a look at underground rave culture in the 1990s, plus much more.
FRONT
Editors’ Note
Collectors: The Activists
Contributions by Alicia Garza, Laura Hanna, Peter Staley, and Micah White
Curriculum
By Pieter Hugo
Redux
Hinde Haest on Ed van der Elsken’s De Jong & Van Dam NV (1912–1962)
Dispatches
Ismail Fayed on the Cairo Bats
On Portraits
Geoff Dyer on Roy DeCarava
BACK
Object Lessons
Jonna Kina’s Foley Objects, 2013
WORDS
Listening for Eggleston
A profile of the pioneering artist and his passion for music
By John Jeremiah Sullivan
Photographs & Phonographs
Two inventions that define the modern experience
By Sara Knelman
The Producer: Stan Douglas in Conversation with Kwami Coleman
In atmospheric videos, the Vancouver-based artist riffs on disco and jazz
Midnight in Bamako
Remembering the legendary Malick Sidibé, who captured the rhythm of postindependence Mali
By A. Chab Touré
Wild Sync: Lucy Raven in Conversation with Drew Sawyer
Exploring sound effects, animation, and the future of 3D movies
PICTURES
Michael Schmelling: Your Blues
Introduction by Kelefa Sanneh
Katsumi Watanabe’s Discology
Introduction by Kyoichi Tsuzuki
Total Records
Introduction by Vince Aletti
Newsha Tavakolian: Listen
Introduction by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Vinca Petersen: No System
Introduction by Sheryl Garratt
Santu Mofokeng: Pedi Dancers
Introduction by Joshua Chuang
Noisy Pictures: A Sonic Sequence
Contributions by Simon Baker, Martin Barnes, Geoffrey Batchen, David Campany, Jimena Canales, Noam M. Elcott, Virginia Heckert, Greil Marcus, Stephen Pinson, Brian Sholis, Matthew Witkovsky, and Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska
