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Book SynopsisAperture Magazine Releases Winter Issue, “Desire,” Featuring an Expansive Interview with Renowned Fashion Photographer Juergen Teller
(New York—December 12, 2023) This winter, Aperture magazine presents “Desire,” an edition that considers desire as both an impulse and a state of mind. The issue features an expansive interview with Juergen Teller, whose photographs upend fashion’s vocabulary of glamour and aspiration, on the occasion of his major exhibition Juergen Teller: i need to live, opening at the Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris on December 16, 2023.
Photographers are natural voyeurs. The compulsion to want—or, in today’s parlance, to manifest—emerges throughout the work in this issue. Artists such as Nakeya Brown, Nabil Harb, Oto Gillen, Marcelo Gomes, and Jonathas de Andrade consider the body, the natural world, beguiling objects, and direct physical expressions of desire as the material for indelible images.
Andrew Maerkle profiles the celebrated Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako, who for decades has conjured history through evocative personal objects, creating magnetic images that are at once surreal and surprisingly physical. Amanda Maddox considers a generation of women photographers whose work probes the feminist dynamics of seeing—and being seen. Moeko Fujii revisits Hisae Imai, an ascendent figure in Tokyo’s art and fashion scenes of the 1960s, and Lucy McKeon finds new resonance in the sensual self-portraits Melissa Shook made as a young woman and mother. In “Desire,” photographers render reality as unearthly—and take the viewer somewhere else altogether.
For more information and to preview select content from the issue, visit aperture.org/magazine.
Table of ContentsWords & Pictures Editors’ Note: Desire The Force of Life Juergen Teller on decades at the center of fashion A Conversation with Alistair O’Neill
Daydreams Hisae Imai’s surreal life as a photographer Moeko Fujii
She’s Got the Look A generation of women reconsiders the dynamics of being seen Amanda Maddox
More Real Than a Memory Melissa Shook’s rigorous and sensual self-portraits Lucy McKeon
Black Beauty Still Lifes Nakeya Brown stages a story about femininity Lovia Gyarkye
Everything Shines How has the relationship between art and advertising evolved? Brian Dillon
This Odor Oto Gillen’s uncanny New York flowers Evan Moffitt
Kosen Ohtsubo’s Flower Planet The ikebana artist’s playful constructions mix performance and photography Daniel Abbe
Polk County Nabil Harb portrays community and landscape in central Florida Michael Adno
The Spark How Jonathas de Andrade channels the thrill of intimacy Silas Martí
Things, Moments, Multitudes For Marcelo Gomes, beauty is in the pulse point Jesse Dorris
The Afterlives of Objects Ishiuchi Miyako reveals histories in the everyday Andrew Maerkle
