Alex Prager
The summer issue of Aperture magazine considers the influence of photography on leading filmmakers, and the role of cinema in the work of artists and photographers. Featuring in-depth interviews with Sofia Coppola, Shirin Neshat, and Gus Van Sant, and contributions by Negar Azimi, David Campany, J. Hoberman, Alex Prager, RaMell Ross, Antwaun Sargent, Dayanita Singh, and Dana Stevens, among others.
FRONT
Agenda: Exhibitions to See
Icons of Style, David Wojnarowicz, Loredana Nemes, Carolyn Drake
Backstory
Christopher Phillips on Mo Yi
Redux
Sara Knelman on How I Photograph Myself, 1964
Curriculum
By Thomas Demand
BACK
Aperture Beat
Object Lessons
Paolo Cherchi Usai on Georges Méliès’s The Human Fly, 1902
WORDS
Editors’ Note: Film & Foto
Sofia Coppola on Pictures
How photographs influence the acclaimed director’s films
A conversation with Philip Gefter
Modern Vision
Revisiting a landmark exhibition on film and photography
By David Campany
The Red Desert Effect
Contemporary Italian photography after Antonioni
By Maria Antonella Pelizzari
Smoke Screen
The solid light installations of Anthony McCall
By Noam M. Elcott
Shirin Neshat’s Dreamlands
The artist and filmmaker contends with Iranian identity
A Conversation with Negar Azimi
The Loving Cut
Framing queer desire, from George Platt Lynes to Barry Jenkins
By Evan Moffitt
At Least They’ll See the Black
Kahlil Joseph, Arthur Jafa, and the poetics of African American life
By Antwaun Sargent
Gus Van Sant: A Thousand Compositions
Picturing youth on the margins of American society
A Conversation with Jonathan Griffin
PICTURES
Alain Resnais
Introduction by J. Hoberman
Dayanita Singh
Introduction by Aveek Sen
Alex Prager
Introduction by Rebecca Bengal
Ryan Spencer
Introduction by Dana Stevens
Basim Magdy
Introduction by Bruce Jenkins
Fouad Elkoury
Introduction by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
RaMell Ross
Introduction by Salamishah Tillet
Aperture Magazine #231 / Summer 2018
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