The spring issue of Aperture (issue 190) features:
• Colour Before Color
Martin Parr discusses six important but overlooked European practitioners of color photography.
• The Shadow of the World: James Welling’s Cameraless and Abstract Photography
Abstraction and photograms have been a consistent part of Welling’s work. Noam M. Elcott traces these essential aspects.
• From Ecstasy to Agony: The Fashion Shoot in Cinema
David Campany considers the portrayal of the fashion photographer in films, from Funny Face
to Blow-Up.
• JH Engström: Looking for Presence
Martin Jaeggi on this Swedish photographer’s enigmatic photographs.
• Presence of Mind: The Photographs of Philip Jones Griffiths
Famed war photographer Griffiths discusses his shattering work in Vietnam and Cambodia.
• Muzi Quawson: Pull Back the Shade
A selection of images from this emerging photographer’s debut series.
• Of Other Times and Places
In the first of an ongoing series of articles, Fred Ritchin considers the “postphotographic” landscape.
• In a Lonely Place
Gregory Crewdson reflects upon the films, paintings, and photographs from which he draws inspiration, and shows a few new works of his own.
PLUS: Exhibition reviews from New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, and China. Book reviews of new titles by Bob Richardson and Boris Mikhailov.