Aperture 206 Spring 2012

This issue features "Lieko Shiga: Out of a Crevasse, The Days After the Tsunami" by Mariko Takeuchi; "Arthur Ou: Framework" by Walter Benn Michaels; "The Beat Generation: Writers for the Mambo Age" by Robert Farris Thompson; "Gus the Bear" by Sylvia Plachy; "Precedented Photography" by David Campany; "Paula Luttringer: Archaeology of a Tragedy" by Victoria Verlichak; "Viviane Sassen: Parasomnia" by Aaron Schuman; and "Eugène Atget: Mute Witness" by Geoff Dyer.