Aperture 256 Autumn/Fall 2024, Guest Edited by Deana Lawson

Guest Edited by Deana Lawson

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Guest Editor’s Note: Arrhythmic Mythic Ra


TEXTS
Field Guide to Wildflowers
“What did it feel like to know your body was a dangerous secret?”
Jeff Whetstone

let fani willis f**k
“i am not sure which sin
i am invoking / whether it
is envy actually / or uncut
desire”
A Poem by Simone White

Impossible Truths
“Sometimes a photograph
shows us more than / An
unseen cage”
A Poem by Ben Okri

Imagination
What would a postcapitalist society look like today?
Jason Hickel

’Tis of Thee
“The appetite for truth is cavernous”
A Poem by Tracy K. Smith

A photographic sequence selected by Deana Lawson
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Lieko Shiga, Balarama Heller, Jeff Whetstone, Stefan Ruiz, Weegee, Sally Mann, Birney Imes, Mark Fisher, Deana Lawson, Lucy Raven, Liz Johnson Artur, Seiichi Furuya, Louis Mendes, Allan Sekula, Ken Light, Arthur Jafa, Berenice Abbott, Trevor Paglen, Kikuji Kawada, Boris Mikhailov, Bruce Davidson, Miroslav Tichý, Nikki Nelms, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Paul Kooiker, Les Krims, Elaine Stocki, Paul Graham, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jennifer Calivas, Harold Eugene Edgerton

COLUMNS
Agenda
The FotoFocus Biennial, Photographing Britain, Sophie Calle, Louis Carlos Bernal

Backstory
Ian Bourland on Robert Frank’s genre-bending musical collaborations

Viewfinder
Tiana Reid on Legacy Russell’s history of Black memes

Redux
Yxta Maya Murray on Rafael Goldchain’s portraits of grief and piety

Dispatches
Lola Mac Dougall on how Goa is keeping family memories alive

Curriculum
Farah Al Qasimi on Etel Adnan, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, and Murder, She Wrote

Preview
Brian Dillon on Richard Misrach’s sublime visions of global trade

Interview
Rebecca Bengal speaks with Emmet Gowin about his life in pictures

Endnote
Rachel Kushner on Neanderthal DNA, Helen Keller, and her foray into spy fiction

THE PHOTOBOOK REVIEW
Unbound Journeys
Dalia Al-Dujaili speaks with the designer Roï Saade

Illuminations
Vanessa Peterson on a new anthology of Black British female photographers

Reviews of photobooks by Rahim Fortune, Mary Frey, Yorgos Lanthimos, and more.