Aperture 251 Summer 2023 Being & Becoming Asian in America
| Weight | 0.835000 |
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| Binding | Magazine |
| Pages | 144 |
| Report Date | 2023/06/08 |
| Date Published | 8th June 2023 |
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| Frequency | Quarterly |
| ISBN13/Barcode | 9781597115483 |
| ISBN10 | 1597115487 |
| Publisher | Aperture Foundation |
FRONT
Agenda
Judith Joy Ross, Widline Cadet, Gwangju Biennale, Frank Stewart
Backstory
Fabiana Moraes on a Brazilian community’s archive of photographs
Studio Visit
Luca Fiore on Guido Guidi’s studio in Cesena, Italy
Spotlight
Thessaly La Force on Vân-Nhi Nguyen’s portrayal of Vietnamese youth
Curriculum
Sunil Gupta on Lisette Model, E. M. Forster, and the pleasures of Bollywood
WORDS
Guest Editor’s Note
Asian American artists envision new possibilities for the future
Stephanie Hueon Tung
Landscapes & Memories
An-My Lê and Pao Houa Her discuss fiction and truth in the aftermath of war
A Conversation with Ryan Lee Wong
The Living Archive
How do artists engage with collections shaped by colonial histories?
Bakirathi Mani
Manzanar Stories
Toyo Miyatake’s document of life inside the notorious World War II–era internment camp
Ken Chen
The Downtown Diplomat
In 1980s New York, Tseng Kwong Chi played the role of a lifetime
Simon Wu
The Possibility of Home
The artists exploring domestic life
Xueli Wang
Movement & Form
Soichi Sunami’s collaboration with dancers—and museums
Yechen Zhao
Cut-ups
Priya Suresh Kambli’s collages about memory and migration
Amitava Kumar
How to Survive the American Dream
Reagan Louie’s decades-long meditation about China and Chinatown
A Conversation with Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander
PICTURES
Pressing Against Looking
Gina Osterloh’s photographs resist the legibility of identity
Phoebe Chen
Parting Gift
Leonard Suryajaya’s exuberant scenes in Indonesia and Chicago
Tausif Noor
Viewfinder
Arthur Ou considers the act of seeing the world
Mimi Wong
North, South, East, West
Bruce Yonemoto reimagines the role of Asian men in US military history
Amy Sadao
Resident Aliens
Guanyu Xu’s room of his own
Xuan Juliana Wang
In Between You and Your Shadow
For Jarod Lew, a Detroit family home and restaurant invoke the past
Simon Han
BACK
The PhotoBook Review
A conversation with the publisher Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi, Lena Fritsch on magazine culture in Japan, and a selection of recent photobooks by Jamel Shabazz, Bharat Sikka, Primary Information, Giulia Parlato, and Roe Ethridge
Endnote
Seven questions for Patty Chang