Aperture

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THE PARAMETERS OF OUR CAGE

Aperture • The Magazine of Photography and Ideas

Agenda • Exhibitions to See

Day Jobs • Koto Bolofo worked at a London supermarket while trying to break into the fashion world.

Backstory • How a three-volume book devoted to Mary Ellen Mark became a testament to the late photographer’s vision

Curriculum

Utopia

TYLER MITCHELL LOVE FOR A COMMON WAY OF LIFE

Chris Jennings • Utopia by Subtraction

Spaceship Earth • Matt Wolf in Conversation with Julian Rose

Dreaming & Dwelling • Imagining a new society begins with visionary design. What can we learn from the bold architectural plans of the twentieth century?

David Benjamin Sherry • American Spirit

Olivia Laing • Occupy the Moment

Allen Frame • 1981, NYC

Feminist Futures • From the Dada movement to today, artists have deployed the visual collisions of collage to critique, challenge, provoke—and invent their own idyllic realms.

Remains of the Day • Ten years after protests ignited across North Africa and the Middle East, how have artists made sense of the Arab Spring’s utopian dreams?

Nicole R. Fleetwood • Abolition

The Future Will See You Now • Why Black queer artists are leaving the politics of representationfor the worlds of desire

Steven S. Lee • Towering Ambitions

Aikaterini Gegisian • The Suspended Real

Gareth McConnell • Dream Meadows

The Black Fantastic • Drawing inspiration from history, legend, and speculative fiction, photographers craft visionary narratives of the African diaspora.

Calling in the Spirit • Young Latinx image makers look to cultural traditions and reimagine liberty.

Elvia Wilk • The Rot of Stars

Balarama Heller Sacred place • Years after leaving a Hare Krishna commune, a photographer travels to India in search of radiant simplicity.

Endnote • The Family Acid