Aperture #253

Aperture Magazine #252 Accra Condition- New Language - English 148 Pages 28cm x 40.64cm (9.25" x 12" x 0.5") Published in NYC Frequency - Quarterly Winter 2023 Features an exclusive interview with Juergen Teller on the occasion of his major retrospective in Paris—presents a wide-ranging look at how photographs are expressions and conduits of our wants, needs, and wishes. "Photographs can abet desire in the most direct, utilitarian way," Susan Sontag observed. Hers was a reference to more prurient activities, but she also allowed that desire could be abstract, something more slippery. The compulsion to want--or, in today's parlance, to manifest--emerges throughout Aperture's winter 2023 issue, "Desire," as both an impulse and a state of mind. "Desire" includes an expansive interview with Juergen Teller, whose photographs upend fashion's vocabulary of glamour and aspiration, trading conventional beauty for the more peculiar. Artists such as Nakeya Brown, Jonathas de Andrade, Nabil Ha