Aperture: The Magazine of Photography and Ideas
“On Feminism”
The winter issue of Aperture, “On Feminism,” arrives at a moment when the power and influence women hold on the world stage is irrefutable, and the very idea of gender is central to conversations about equality across the country, and around the globe. “On Feminism” focuses on intergenerational dialogues, debates, and strategies of feminism in photography and considers the immense contributions by artists whose work articulates or interrogates representations of women in media and society. Across more than one hundred years of photographs and images, “On Feminism” underscores how photography has shaped feminism as much as how feminism has shaped photography.
FRONT
Redux
Brian Wallis on Leonard Freed’s Black in White America, 1968
Spotlight
Eli Durst’s In Asmara by Alexandra Pechman
Curriculum
By Martha Rosler
Dispatches
Maria Nicolacopoulou on Athens
BACK
Object Lessons
Les Femmes de l’Avenir, 1900–1902
WORDS
On Feminism
Contributions by Catherine Morris, Zanele Muholi, Laurie Simmons, Johanna Fateman, Zackary Drucker, and A. L. Steiner
Modern Women: David Campany in Conversation with Marta Gili, Julie Jones, and Roxana Marcoci
The artists who redefined the course of twentieth-century photography
The Feminist Avant-Garde
In self-portraiture and body art, experimental pioneers of the 1970s
By Nancy Princenthal
Sex Wars Revisited
Lesbian erotica as critical rebellion
By Laura Guy
A Taste of Power: Renée Cox in Conversation with Uri McMillan
From Angela Davis to Beyoncé, the icons and avatars of black style
History Is Ours
The legacy of protest in video and performance
By Eva Díaz
On Defiance
How women have resisted representational photography
By Eva Respini
Beyond Binary
New visions of trans feminism
By Julia Bryan-Wilson
Our Bodies, Online
Feminist images in the age of Instagram
By Carmen Winant
PICTURES
Cosey Fanni Tutti
Introduction by Alison M. Gingeras
Gillian Wearing
Introduction by Jennifer Blessing
Yurie Nagashima
Introduction by Lesley A. Martin
Hannah Starkey
Introduction by Sara Knelman
Katharina Gaenssler
Introduction by Yvonne Bialek
Josephine Pryde
Introduction by Alex Klein
Laia Abril
Introduction by Karen Archey
Farah Al Qasimi
Introduction by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Martine Syms
Introduction by Amanda Hunt
Elle Pérez
Introduction by Salamishah Tillet
This issue was supported in part by the Anne Levy Fund.
