Ce printemps, le magazine Aperture présente « We Make Pictures in Order to Live » (Nous faisons des photos pour vivre), un numéro qui fait un clin d’œil à la regrettée écrivaine Joan Didion et qui examine la relation entre la photographie et la narration. « Nous vivons entièrement, surtout si nous sommes des écrivains », écrit Didion dans son essai emblématique « L’album blanc », « par l’imposition d’une ligne narrative sur des images disparates, par les « idées » avec lesquelles nous avons appris à figer la fantasmagorie mouvante qui est notre expérience réelle. » Débordant d’histoires visuelles qui excitent, surprennent et illuminent la vie quotidienne, ce numéro demande comment les photographes créent et interrogent les récits, et présente de nouvelles œuvres de Bieke Depoorter, un profil de Nick Waplington par Alistair O’Neill, ainsi que des articles sur Adraint Bereal et Charles « Teenie » Harris.
This spring Aperture magazine presents “We Make Pictures in Order to Live” an issue that nods to the late, celebrated writer Joan Didion and looks at photography’s relationship to storytelling. “We live entirely, especially if we are writers,” Didion writes in her iconic essay “The White Album,” “by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the ‘ideas’ with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.” Brimming with visual stories that excite, surprise, and illuminate daily life, this issue asks how photographers create and question narratives, and features new work by Bieke Depoorter, a profile of Nick Waplington by Alistair O’Neill, as well as features on Adraint Bereal and Charles “Teenie” Harris.
SUMMARY
Front
Agenda
Sharjah Biennial, Ming Smith, Georgia O’Keeffe, Evelyn Hofer
Timeline
David Campany on the many lives of a famous Walker Evans portrait
Viewfinder
Elianna Kan on photography in Ukraine before the Russian invasion
Dispatches
Andrew Russeth on the changing cityscapes of Seoul
Studio Visit
Tiffany Lambert on Rosalind Fox Solomon and her downtown New York loft
Backstory
Max Pearl on a long-overdue retrospective of Darrel Ellis’s experimental images
Curriculum
Alessandra Sanguinetti on Fernando Pessoa, Sally Mann, and the political art of David Wojnarowicz
Words
Editors’ Note: We Make Pictures in Order to Live
The Afterimage of Joan Didion
An iconic writer’s relationship with photography by Brian Dillon
Conversations with Pictures
How chance encounters drive Bieke Depoorter’s collaborative storytelling by Thessaly La Force
Histories from Below
Nick Waplington revisits three decades of subcultural studies by Alistair O’Neill
Mythic Worlds
Folklore and fantasy in the work of Eikoh Hosoe by Lena Fritsch
The Edges of Memory
Charles “Teenie” Harris’s midcentury portrait of Black culture in Pittsburgh by Tiana Reid
