Aperture – Magazine aperture 250 : We Make Pictures in Order to Live

« We Make Pictures in Order to Live » explore la relation entre la photographie et la narration à travers les générations et les régions. Mettant en vedette des histoires visuelles qui éclairent la vie quotidienne, ce numéro évoque la regrettée et célèbre écrivaine Joan Didion, qui a déclaré : « Nous nous racontons des histoires pour vivre. »

SUMMARY

Front

Agenda
Sharjah Biennial, Ming Smith, Georgia O’Keeffe, Evelyn Hofer

Timeline
David Campany on the many lives of a famous Walker Evans portrait

Viewfinder
Elianna Kan on photography in Ukraine before the Russian invasion

Dispatches
Andrew Russeth on the changing cityscapes of Seoul

Studio Visit
Tiffany Lambert on Rosalind Fox Solomon and her downtown New York loft

Backstory
Max Pearl on a long-overdue retrospective of Darrel Ellis’s experimental images

Curriculum
Alessandra Sanguinetti on Fernando Pessoa, Sally Mann, and the political art of David Wojnarowicz

Words

Editors’ Note: We Make Pictures in Order to Live

The Afterimage of Joan Didion
An iconic writer’s relationship with photography by Brian Dillon

Conversations with Pictures
How chance encounters drive Bieke Depoorter’s collaborative storytelling by Thessaly La Force

Histories from Below
Nick Waplington revisits three decades of subcultural studies by Alistair O’Neill

Mythic Worlds
Folklore and fantasy in the work of Eikoh Hosoe by Lena Fritsch

The Edges of Memory
Charles “Teenie” Harris’s midcentury portrait of Black culture in Pittsburgh by Tiana Reid