Aperture 254 Spring 2024 Counter Histories
Aperture's spring 2024 issue, “Counter Histories,” is produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation, and features photographers from around the world who reframe complex histories.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FRONT
Agenda
Takuma Nakahira, David Seidner, David Goldblatt, Women in Revolt!
Viewfinder Marigold Warner revisits Mariko Mori’s critique of gender roles in Japan
Dispatches Aaron Peck on the future of Vancouver as an artist’s city
Backstory
Iva Dixit on Ketaki Sheth’s candid portraits of Indian film stars at work
Curriculum Jack Pierson on Martin Scorsese, Bobbi Boyle, and a history of homoerotic photography
Studio Visit
Jordan Stein speaks with Jim Goldberg about his magnum opus
WORDS
For So Many Years When I Close My Eyes
A mother’s search for her lost son inspires Billy H.C. Kwok’s new work
Ken Chen
We See It All
Christopher Gregory-Rivera’s investigation into the surveillance of Puerto Rican activists
Yxta Maya Murray
Moonsongs for Earth
Prasiit Sthapit delves into the role of music in Nepal’s Maoist revolution
Muna Gurung
Fighting Times
How Alice Proujansky came to terms with her parents’ radical past
Piper French
PICTURES
The Country
Through vivid landscapes and portraits, Lindokuhle Sobekwa maps a family tree in South Africa
Kwanele Sosibo
Searching for Cayenne
Cédrine Scheidig asks where the history of the Caribbean begins and ends
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
The “Good” Change
Agata Szymanska-Medina exposes the forces repressing Polish democracy
Camila McHugh
The Right to a Memory
In Algeria, Abdo Shanan builds an archive about ordinary citizens
Tausif Noor
Descendants
Naomieh Jovin tells an intergenerational family story, from Haiti to the United States
Edwidge Danticat
BACK
The PhotoBook Review
A tour of Ari Marcopoulos’s personal library, Simon Wu on Pati Hill’s shape-shifting xerography, and reviews of photobooks by Hans Wilschut, Lin Zhipeng, David Wojnarowicz, Aaron Turner, and RaMell Ross
Endnote
Six questions for Patrick Radden Keefe