Winter 2018

Family

This issue of Aperture considers how artists and photographers have chronicled their relationships to their families and chosen communities, and takes an expanded view of what families can be.

FRONT
Agenda: Exhibitions to See
Graciela Iturbide, Don McCullin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Claudia Andujar

Dispatches
Jyoti Dhar on Sri Lanka

Spotlight
Ka-Man Tse’s narrow distances
By Stephanie H. Tung

Curriculum
By Hannah Starkey

BACK
Object Lessons
Cathy Cade’s Archives, 1970s–80s

WORDS
Editors’ Note: Family

Liz Johnson Artur: Black Balloon Archive
Joy, pride, and community across the African diaspora
By Ekow Eshun

Into the Album
How have artists reframed the family picture?
By Carmen Winant

Domestic Labor
A novelist and a photographer on the fictions of kinship
Lynne Tillman and Justine Kurland in Conversation

Diana Markosian: Santa Barbara
Under the sway of a soap opera, a Russian family’s new life in the U.S.
By Rebecca Bengal

Masahisa Fukase: Father Figure
Parody and pathos in a son’s family portraits
By Tomo Kosuga

American Families
Picturing the African American family, from Frederick Douglass to Jamel Shabazz
Deborah Willis in Conversation with Rhea L. Combs

PICTURES

Motoyuki Daifu
Introduction by Dan Abbe

Charlie Engman
Introduction by Sheila Heti

Tammy Rae Carland
Introduction by Glen Helfand

Kathryn Harrison
Introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan

House of Xtravaganza by Stefan Ruiz
Introduction by Mikelle Street

Tenzing Dakpa
Introduction by Pico Iyer

George Awde
Introduction by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

David Armstrong
Introduction by Jesse Dorris

Christopher Anderson
Introduction by Sara Knelman

 

Lead funding for the “Family” issue of Aperture magazine is provided by the Anne Levy Charitable Trust and the Reba Judith Sandler Foundation.

Significant support for Aperture magazine is provided by the Kanakia Foundation.

Further generous support for Aperture magazine is provided in part by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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