Vision & Justice: Aperture 223

Aperture: The Magazine of Photography and Ideas This issue features two covers: Richard Avedon, Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, with his father, Martin Luther King, Baptist minister, and his son, Martin Luther King III, Atlanta, Georgia, March 22, 1963 and Awol Erizku, Untitled (Forces of Nature #1), 2014 *Collect both and save “Vision & Justice” Addresses the role of photography in the African American experience, guest edited by Sarah Lewis, distinguished author and art historian. FRONT Guest Editor’s Note Sarah Lewis Collectors: The Jazz Musicians Contributions by Wynton Marsalis, Ingrid Monson, Alicia Hall Moran, Jason Moran, and Somi Curriculum By Hank Willis Thomas Redux Bridget R. Cooks on Harlem on My Mind (1968) BACK Object Lessons Thelma Golden on James VanDerZee, Christmas Morning, 1933 WORDS Frederick Douglass’s Camera Obscura By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Black Photographers Annual By Carla Williams Black Lives, Silver Screen Ava DuVernay and Bradford Young in Conversation Love Visual: A Conversation with Haile Gerima By Sarah Lewis and Dagmawi Woubshet Picturing Obama By Maurice Berger Carrie Mae Weems: Around the Kitchen Table Reflections by Dawoud Bey, Jennifer Blessing, Katori Hall, Robin Kelsey, and Salamishah Tillet PICTURES Awol Erizku Introduction by Steven Nelson Toyin Ojih Odutola Introduction by Claudia Rankine Lorna Simpson Introduction by Margo Jefferson Annie Leibovitz Introduction by Nell Painter Deborah Willis Introduction by Cheryl Finley Sally Mann Introduction by John Stauffer Jamel Shabazz Introduction by Khalil Gibran Muhammad Devin Allen Introduction by Aaron Bryant Leslie Hewitt Introduction by Rujeko Hockley Lyle Ashton Harris Introduction by Vince Aletti Radcliffe Roye Introduction by Garnette Cadogan LaToya Ruby Frazier Introduction by Teju Cole Dawoud Bey Introduction by Leigh Raiford Deana Lawson Introduction by Thomas J. Lax WEB EXCLUSIVES Ming Smith and the Kamoinge Workshop LeRonn P. Brooks She Walked in Beauty Susan Fales-Hill Jamel Shabazz in Conversation with Michaela Angela Davis dream hampton in Conversation with Geena Rocero Nicole R. Fleetwood on Prison Portraits Renée Mussai and Victor Peterson II on Black Chronicles and Rock Against Racism Deana Lawson in Conversation with Nikki A. Greene Vision, Justice, and Cinema: A Roundtable with Franklin Leonard, Catherine Gund, and Shola Lynch Sheila Pree-Bright in Conversation with Naima J. Keith Emily Raboteau on Murals and Social Justice Brian Wallis on James Baldwin and Richard Avedon’s Nothing Personal Mark Bradford's Pride of Place Introduction by Antwaun Sargent STUDENT REFLECTIONS Racial Innocence in Postwar America by Maia Silber Envisioning the Right to Vote by Jonathan Karp Keith Lamont Scott and the Legacy of Police Violence by David E. White Jr. In California, Trees as Witness and Living Memorial by Elizabeth Huber The Cotton Bowl and the Super Bowl by Eli Wilson Pelton Separate Cars on the Open Road by Ian Askew Don't Touch Our Hair by Jeneé Osterheldt Art and Activism in a Contested Democracy Contributions by Taiyo Na, Jonathan Michael Square, Carmen Hermo, Nina Crews, Valentine Umansky Framing Justice Contributions by Nathan Cummings, Josiah Corbus, Ted Waechter, Christopher Chow, and Larisa Owusu Series: Aperture Magazine (Book 223) Paperback: 128 pages Publisher: Aperture; First Edition edition (April 26, 2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 1597113654 ISBN-13: 9781597113656 Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 0.6 x 12 inches Shipping Weight: 2 pounds