iylshowcase: Reading Room : Aperture #224 - SoundsSounds the 224th issue of Aperture Magazine balanc
iylshowcase: Reading Room : Aperture #224 - SoundsSounds the 224th issue of Aperture Magazine balances on a surprisingly blurry line that is the threshold between photography and sound. The capture of light and sound holds a special place in the collective psyche. From the mechanical tools for recording, to visualising sounds and hearing images. The relationship between our senses and their respective disciplines has long been a source of fascination and creative endeavour.With an article from by John Jeremiah Sullivan about William Eggelston’s love of music and works from Michael Schelling and Katsumi Watanabe to point to a few highlights, Sounds investigates this relationship.“Of our five senses, we’ve only work worked out how to record two: sight and sound"The crossover between sound and photography is also explored historically. In Photographs & Phonographs Sara Knelman points to the early appearances of the technologies around sound recording and playback in the work of visual artists like Moholy-Nagy and Florence Henri. The 224th Aperture deals with its potentially abstract or alien topic by maintain a clear attitude of celebration toward the similarities between photography and sound throughout the issue. Knelman neatly presents Walter Benjamin’s words as point of reference…“Above all, it enables the original to meet the beholder halfway, be it in the form of a photograph or a phonograph record. The cathedral leaves its locale to be received in the studio of the lover of art; the choral production performed in an auditorium or in the open air, resounds in the drawing room.” Buy the new issue here -- source link