Aperture Anthology In-A-Bag

The bluelines for our upcoming Aperture Magazine
 Anthology: The Minor White Years, 1952–1976 have just been delivered to editorial, expertly packaged and fully portable!

This long-awaited volume—published on the occasion of Aperture Magazine’s sixtieth anniversary—will provide a selection of the best critical writing from the first twenty-five years of the magazine—the period spanning the tenure of cofounder and editor Minor White.

The texts and visuals in this anthology were selected by Peter C. Bunnell, White’s protégé and an early member of the Aperture staff, who went on to become a major force in photography as an influential writer, curator, and professor. Several documents from Aperture’s founders and individual articles are reproduced in facsimile, and the book is enlivened by other distinctive elements, including a portfolio of each cover, and a selection of epigrams and editorials that appeared at the front of each issue. An extensive index of every contributor to the first twenty-five years of the magazine makes this an indispensible resource. Stay tuned for its Fall 2012 release…

The winter issue of Aperture magazine (issue 193) features:

• A Magazine in the Making
Peter C. Bunnell revisits the first issue of Aperture on the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the magazine’s founding editor, Minor White.

• Susan Meiselas: Nicaragua
John Berger considers Meiselas’s powerful project on Nicaragua’s civil war in the 1970s.

• The Author As Photographer: Early Soviet Writers and the Camera
Erika Wolf examines authors who tried their hands at photography in the post-revolution Soviet Union.

• Phillip Toledano: Phonesex
Portraits of behind-the-scenes workers who make a living with their voices.

• Richard Misrach: Untitled
A selection from Misrach’s newest body of work, plus a bonus poster included in all subscriber issues!

• Deep in the Archive
An exploration of photography that engages the concept of the archive, by Ulrich Baer.

• Guy Tillim: Things As They Seem
Tillim documents colonial-era architecture and decay throughout Africa.

• On the Edge of Clear Meaning: Reconsidering the Work of John Wood
David Levi Strauss explores how Wood’s photographs and photo-based multimedia works tackle politics with poetry.

• Disappearing Giants
Michael “Nick” Nichols, the veteran wildlife photographer, tracks endangered elephants in Chad and Kenya.

PLUS: Exhibition reviews from London, New York, The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and Tokyo

Available at newsstands now or subscribe and get the bonus poster from Richard Misrach.