Aperture 255 Summer 2024

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From fashion to architecture to the printed page, and beyond, this issue, featuring Aperture's new look, considers how photography and design frame our daily lives. Customers will receive one of three unique covers, chosen at random, featuring an image by David Hartt, Luigi Ghirri, or Dayanita Singh.

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Features

EDITORS’ NOTE
The Design Issue

CUTTING A FIGURE
The fashion designer Duro Olowu’s endless curiosity
A conversation with Dan Thawley

PARADISE LOST
David Hartt reveals the tensions between architecture and history
Mimi Zeiger

FERRARI BY LUIGI GHIRRI
The Italian photographer’s study of the mythic carmaker
Michael Famighetti

BETTER LIVING
Dayanita Singh finds common ground in the work of two architects
Tausif Noor

EMPIRE PLAZA
Daniel Shea explores a utopian dream in Albany
Julian Rose

DESIGN TOUCHES EVERYTHING
The critic Alice Rawsthorn on design as a response to life
A conversation with Billie Muraben

OFF THE WALL
The many possibilities of photography exhibitions
David Campany and Sara Knelman

THE SHAPE OF THINGS
How do images make products irresistible?
Jesse Dorris

PAST LIVES
Coreen Simpson’s artistic avatars
Thessaly La Force

DREAM SEQUENCE
Uncanny realities inspire Nhu Xuan Hua’s pictures
Larissa Pham

THE THEATER OF PAUL KOOIKER
A fresh voice in fashion deploys oddity and improvisation

Columns

AGENDA
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Japanese Women Photographers, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Tropical Modernism

TIMELINE
Kim Beil on a brief history of the moon

VIEWFINDER
Declan Long on Akihiko Okamura’s outsider view of Northern Ireland

STUDIO VISIT
Brendan Embser on Stefan Ruiz’s art-filled Brooklyn home

CURRICULUM
Alejandro Cartagena on Back to the Future, Latin American photography, and flea-market finds

SPOTLIGHT
Lucy McKeon on Avion Pearce’s poetic world-building

ENDNOTE
Olivia Laing on the art of garden making

The PhotoBook Review

POETIC RESEARCH
Dori Tunstall speaks with the designers behind Polymode

ELEMENTS OF STYLE
Christina Cacouris on Alexey Brodovitch’s iconic art direction

THE DESIGNER’S BOOKSHELF
Twelve studios discuss their favorite books