{"product_id":"70th-anniversary-issue-aperture-248-9781597115261","title":"70th Anniversary Issue: Aperture 248","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eTo commemorate its seventy years in publication, Aperture magazine has released a special anniversary issue that includes seven original commissions by renowned photographers and artists as well as seven essays by acclaimed writers and critics. The issue explores the magazine's past and charts its future, reflecting on the founding editors' mission and engaging with the magazine's global community of photographers, writers, and thinkers. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 144 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 06 September 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Aperture\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis fall, Aperture celebrates seventy years in print with an issue that explores the magazine's past while charting its future. Reflecting on the founding editors original mission and drawing on Aperture's global community of photographers, writers, and thinkers, this issue features seven original artist commissions as well as seven essays by some of the most incisive writers working today––each engaging with the magazine's archive in distinct ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong the original artist commissions, Iñaki Bonillas selects iconic images and texts from the Aperture's archive from the 1950s to produce open-ended narrative collages. Dayanita Singh reflects on the 1960s and the family album as a serious photographic form. Yto Barrada enacts sculptural interventions to issues and spreads from the 1970s, using remnants of the late artist Bettina Grossman's color paper cutouts. Mark Steinmetz draws inspiration from the magazine's Summer 1987 issue, \"Mothers \u0026amp; Daughters,\" to compose a photo essay of his wife, the photographer Irina Rozovsky, and their daughter Amelia. Considering the matrix of censorship, art, and religion in the 1990s, John Edmonds creates a tableau about family, faith, and grief. Hannah Whitaker explores the turn of the century, and the ways in which our anxieties about technology create speculative worlds. And Hank Willis Thomas draws on Aperture's issues from the 2010s to create a series of collages that reference traditional quilt patterning, revivifying history and remixing the present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking back upon Aperture's legacy, Darryl Pinckney reconsiders the photographer and editor Mi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 1010g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 236 x 304 x 18 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781597115261\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shulph Ink","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44098745204986,"sku":"9781597115261","price":15.43,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/noImage_1_5afc2287-2a4e-426e-bc89-982eb0fab998.jpg?v=1662841013","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/70th-anniversary-issue-aperture-248-9781597115261","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}