Spring 2019
Earth
This issue of Aperture considers the natural world in the age of climate change, extreme weather, and dramatically politicized landscapes.
FRONT
Agenda: Exhibitions to See
Encore, John Goodman, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Anne Collier
Backstory
Lou Stoppard on Chuck Shacochis
Redux
Laura Guy on Jill Posener’s Spray It Loud, 1982
Curriculum
By Mark Steinmetz
BACK
Object Lessons
Toxic Times, Summer 1990
WORDS
Editors’ Note: Earth
Lieko Shiga: Human Spring
A photographer’s encounter with natural disasters in Japan
By Amanda Maddox
Ecofeminist World Building
How can artists respond to a changing planet?
By Eva Díaz
Art in the Anthropocene
The aesthetic emergency of global warming
T. J. Demos in Conversation with Charlotte Cotton
Paradise & Dystopia
Landscape, politics, and the built environment
Thomas Struth in Conversation with Aaron Schuman
Notions of Land
Indigenous artists and the forms of visual sovereignty
By Wanda Nanibush
PICTURES
Carolyn Drake
Introduction by William Finnegan
Jochen Lempert
Introduction by Brian Sholis
Gideon Mendel
Introduction by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen
Thirza Schaap
Introduction by Sara Knelman
Bruno V. Roels
Introduction by Brian Dillon
Arguiñe Escandón & Yann Gross
Introduction by Emmanuel Iduma
Vasantha Yogananthan
Introduction by Aveek Sen
David Benjamin Sherry
Introduction by Bill McKibben