Cet hiver, le magazine Aperture présente un numéro qui célèbre les visions dynamiques de la photographie latine aux États-Unis.
Invité par Pilar Tompkins Rivas, conservateur en chef du Lucas Museum of Narrative Art à Los Angeles, « Latinx » couvre un siècle de création d’images, de rapprochement entre la photographie historique et contemporaine, et de couverture des thèmes de la résistance politique, de la famille et de la communauté, la mode et la culture, et la complexité de l’identité dans la vie américaine.
Dans « Latinx », Carribean Fragoza retrace l’influence de Laura Aguilar sur l’art queer. Joiri Minaya remixe des cartes postales de la République dominicaine pour dévoiler la fantaisie du tourisme. Christina Catherine Martinez dresse le portrait de Reynaldo Rivera, qui a relaté la vie nocturne de Los Angeles dans les années 1990. Yxta Maya Murry considère trois conservateurs latinas et écrivains influençant la façon dont les canons de photographie sont fabriqués aujourd’hui.
« Collectivement, leurs images jettent un plus grand filet sur les multiples façons de voir les Latinx », note Tompkins Rivas des photographes du numéro, « créant une archive visuelle dont les contours restent à définir. »
This winter, Aperture magazine presents an issue that celebrates the dynamic visions of Latinx photography throughout the United States.
Guest edited by Pilar Tompkins Rivas, chief curator at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, “Latinx” spans a century of image making, connecting historical and contemporary photography, and covering the themes of political resistance, family and community, fashion and culture, and the complexity of identity in American life.
In “Latinx,” Carribean Fragoza traces Laura Aguilar’s influence on queer artmaking. Joiri Minaya remixes postcards from the Dominican Republic to unveil the fantasy of tourism. Christina Catherine Martinez profiles Reynaldo Rivera, who chronicled 1990s-era Los Angeles nightlife. Yxta Maya Murry considers three Latina curators and writers influencing how photography canons are made today.
“Collectively, their images cast a greater net for the multiple ways of seeing Latinx people,” Tompkins Rivas notes of the issue’s photographers, “creating a visual archive whose edges are yet to be defined.”
CONTENTS:
Agnda
Samuel Fosso, Songs of the Sky, Stephanie Syjuco, Greater New York
Backstory
Brian Sholis on diversity in photography collections, from New Orleans to Toronto
Viewfinder
Declan Long on Gilles Peress’s two-thousand-page photobook about Northern Ireland
Curriculum
Tina Campt on Garrett Bradley, Moonlight, and the dance styles of Storyboard P
Guest Editor’s Note: You Belong Here
What can photographs tell us about Latinx culture in the United States? By Pilar Tompkins Rivas
Always in Resistance
Ken Gonzales-Day on archives that push back against historical erasure ; A Conversation with Jesse Alemán
Making Worlds
The Latina curators and writers revising the photography canon by Yxta Maya Murray
Capturing Movimientos
Images and activism, from New York to Los Angeles by Colin Gunckel
A Picture of an Artist at Work
The 1970s-era Conceptual artists who demanded visibility by Chon Noriega
Glitter for the Fire
How Reynaldo Rivera chronicled the chaotic glamour of LA nightlife by Christina Catherine Martinez
The River Remembers Laura Aguilar
The artists creating a queer lineage by Carribean Fragoza
PICTURES :
The Revolution Will Be . . .
Sofía Córdova summons dance and collective action by Eva Díaz
Barrios
From Louis Carlos Bernal, documents of Mexican American lives by Oscar Cásares
Youth Culture
Gregory Bojorquez and the Latinx subcultures of punks and skaters by Joseph Daniel Valencia
Adelante
Steven Molina Contreras’s portraits between the U.S. and El Salvador by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
The Collector
Vincent Ramos excavates identity in popular culture by Rita Gonzalez
The Lives of Gabriela Ruiz
Bibs Moreno’s collaborations with the muse and performance artist by Eva Recinos
Found in Translation
Marton Robinson considers the languages of Black Latinx history by Lorgia García-Peña
1979: Contact Negatives
Tarrah Krajnak’s spectral encounters between the body and the city by Yasmine Seale
Dominican Postcards
Joiri Minaya’s collages unveil the fantasy of tourism by Angie Cruz
Bridge of Mirrors
Genesis Báez’s visions of the Puerto Rican diaspora by Nadiah Rivera Fellah
Endnote
Six questions for Cheech Marin
