Aperture 173

Aperture Magazine, issue #173, Winter 2003.
Portfolios and Essays from Carlo McCormick, Walter Martin, and Paloma Munoz, Peter Yenne, Philip Gefter, Roger Ballen and Charles Bowden, John Dugdale, John Kelly, and David Frankel.

Elegy in White
by Carlo McCormick
Combining sculpture with photography, Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz encapsulate the quaint and the macabre in snow-globes.

Lost Worlds: Recent Discoveries in Andean Photography
by Peter Yenne
In search of lost photographic treasure, a historian uncovers and preserves and extensive but previously unknown chapter in South American photo-history.

Reading Newspaper Pictures: A Thousand Words, and Then Some
by Philip Gefter
A New York Times picture editor explores the relationship between image and text in the newspaper.

Roger Ballen's World
by Charles Bowden
Roger Ballen's latest, never-before-published work from South Africa orchestrates friends, wires, and animals in disquieting, often witty, tableaux.

John Dugdale and John Kelly: Photo Play
by David Frankel
A twenty-year collaboration between a photographer and a performance artist reveals a unique synergy and a shared sensibility.