Aperture magazine releases winter issue, Desire, featuring an expansive interview with renowned fashion photographer Juergen Teller
'Photographs can abet desire in the most direct, utilitarian way,' Susan Sontag observed. Hers was a reference to more prurient activities, but she also allowed that desire could be abstract, something more slippery. The compulsion to want - or, in today's parlance, to manifest - emerges throughout Aperture's winter 2023 issue, Desire, as both an impulse and a state of mind.
Desire includes an expansive interview with Juergen Teller, whose photographs upend fashion's vocabulary of glamour and aspiration, trading conventional beauty for the more peculiar. Artists such as Nakeya Brown, Jonathas de Andrade, Nabil Harb, Oto Gillen, and Marcelo Gomes consider what it means to put one's own body on display, to break from long-standing customs, to be seduced by raw beauty found in nature or in uncanny artifice. Histories are conjured through evocative personal objects in the work of Ishiuchi Miyako, who for decades has created beguiling images that in two dimensions are at once surreal and surprisingly physical. In Desire, photographers render reality as unearthly - and take the viewer somewhere else altogether.
Edited by:
Aperture
Imprint: Aperture
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 305mm,
Width: 234mm,
ISBN: 9781597115506
ISBN 10: 1597115509
Series: Aperture Magazine
Pages: 148
Publication Date: 07 December 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Words & Pictures Editors’ Note: Desire The Force of Life Juergen Teller on decades at the center of fashion A Conversation with Alistair O’Neill Daydreams Hisae Imai’s surreal life as a photographer Moeko Fujii She’s Got the Look A generation of women reconsiders the dynamics of being seen Amanda Maddox More Real Than a Memory Melissa Shook’s rigorous and sensual self-portraits Lucy McKeon Black Beauty Still Lifes Nakeya Brown stages a story about femininity Lovia Gyarkye Everything Shines How has the relationship between art and advertising evolved? Brian Dillon This Odor Oto Gillen’s uncanny New York flowers Evan Moffitt Kosen Ohtsubo’s Flower Planet The ikebana artist’s playful constructions mix performance and photography Daniel Abbe Polk County Nabil Harb portrays community and landscape in central Florida Michael Adno The Spark How Jonathas de Andrade channels the thrill of intimacy Silas Martí Things, Moments, Multitudes For Marcelo Gomes, beauty is in the pulse point Jesse Dorris The Afterlives of Objects Ishiuchi Miyako reveals histories in the everyday Andrew Maerkle
