Aperture: No. 233 (Winter 2018): Family
This issue of Aperture considers how artists and photographers have chronicled their relationships to their families and chosen communities, and takes an expanded view of what families can be.
FRONT Agenda: Exhibitions to See Graciela Iturbide, Don McCullin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Claudia Andujar
Dispatches Jyoti Dhar on Sri Lanka
Spotlight Ka-Man Tse’s narrow distances By Stephanie H. Tung
Curriculum By Hannah Starkey
BACK Object Lessons Cathy Cade’s Archives, 1970s–80s
WORDS Editors’ Note: Family
Liz Johnson Artur: Black Balloon Archive Joy, pride, and community across the African diaspora By Ekow Eshun
Into the Album How have artists reframed the family picture? By Carmen Winant
Domestic Labor A novelist and a photographer on the fictions of kinship Lynne Tillman and Justine Kurland in Conversation
Diana Markosian: Santa Barbara Under the sway of a soap opera, a Russian family’s new life in the U.S. By Rebecca Bengal
Masahisa Fukase: Father Figure Parody and pathos in a son’s family portraits By Tomo Kosuga
American Families Picturing the African American family, from Frederick Douglass to Jamel Shabazz Deborah Willis in Conversation with Rhea L. Combs
PICTURES
Motoyuki Daifu Introduction by Dan Abbe
Charlie Engman Introduction by Sheila Heti
Tammy Rae Carland Introduction by Glen Helfand
Kathryn Harrison Introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan
House of Xtravaganza by Stefan Ruiz Introduction by Mikelle Street
Tenzing Dakpa Introduction by Pico Iyer
George Awde Introduction by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
David Armstrong Introduction by Jesse Dorris
Christopher Anderson Introduction by Sara Knelman