Aperture's 2018 “Los Angeles” issue explores how one of America’s most photographed cities is also an essential hub for some of today’s most important photography and photo-based art. Part of an ongoing series of issues that profile the photographic culture of a particular city, “Los Angeles” features key figures in the photography community. Brand-new portfolios highlight Los Angeles’s unique conceptual traditions and, in some cases, consider the city as a studio. Including contributions by Janna Ireland, Carter Mull, Catherine Opie, Guadalupe Rosales, Torbjørn Rødland, Lise Sarfati, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya, “Los Angeles” captures the city’s historic and contemporary photographic vibrancy through enduring visual records of its landscape and communities. FRONT Agenda: Exhibitions to See Laurie Simmons, Shoji Ueda, Gordon Parks, Luigi Ghirri Backstory Diana Dufour on Katrien De Blauwer Redux Alistair O’Neill on Deborah Turbeville’s Maquillage , 1975 Curriculum By Susan Meiselas BACK Object Lessons Ed Ruscha’s Production Notebooks, 1973–90 WORDS Editors’ Note: Los Angeles City of Images Contributions by James Welling, Luis C. Garza, Awol Erizku, Dana Goodyear, Geoff Dyer, and Catherine Opie John Divola & Mark Ruwedel Traversing the city and the desert A Conversation with Amanda Maddox Back in the Days In shapshots and portraits, an archive of Chicano life By Carribean Fragoza Chávez Ravine Don Normark’s 1949 chronicle of a Mexican American community By Yxta Maya Murray Toward Poetic Vision Robert Heinecken redefines the photograph By Rebecca Morse The Genuine in a World of Copies Revisiting an influential exhibition of Southern California art By Erin O’Toole Ilene Segalove’s Modern America Artifice and reality in Beverly Hills A Conversation with Charlotte Cotton PICTURES Anthony Hernandez Introduction by Glen Helfand Lise Sarfati Introduction by Brian Sholis Barak Zemer Introduction by Kate Palmer Albers Christina Fernandez Introduction by Yxta Maya Murray Sophie Tianxin Chen Introduction by Jennifer Piejko Paul Mpagi Sepuya Introduction by Andy Campbell Carter Mull Introduction by Jonathan Griffin Rodrigo Valenzuela Introduction by Matthew Schum David Alekhuogie Introduction by Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi Janna Ireland Introduction by Susan Morgan Mona Kuhn Introduction by Sara Knelman Torbjørn Rødland Introduction by Travis Diehl Aperture 232: Los Angeles (Fall 2018) Series: Aperture Magazine (Book 232) Paperback: 136 pages Publisher: Aperture (September 4, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 1597114359 ISBN-13: 9781597114356 Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 0.8 x 12 inches
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