{"product_id":"being-becoming-asian-in-america-aperture-251-paperback","title":"Being \u0026 Becoming: Asian in America: Aperture 251 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAperture\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eStephanie Hueon Tung\u003c\/b\u003e (Guest Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis summer, \u003ci\u003eAperture \u003c\/i\u003emagazine presents \"Being \u0026amp; Becoming: Asian in America,\" a landmark issue that considers how artists use the medium of photography to grapple with questions of visibility, belonging, and what it means to be Asian American. Spanning photography from the nineteenth century to the present, and featuring the work of acclaimed figures such as \u003cb\u003eAn-My Lê\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eReagan Louie\u003c\/b\u003e, \"Being \u0026amp; Becoming\" is guest edited by \u003cb\u003eStephanie Hueon Tung\u003c\/b\u003e, curator of photography at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts. \u003c\/p\u003e\"I hope this publication provides an opportunity to discover generative ways of seeing that are rooted in connection and empathy,\" says Tung, who contributes a powerful essay to the magazine about the importance of envisioning Asian American lives. \"It is through the work of artists that we can change our perceptions of the past and heal generational wounds.\"\u003cp\u003eIn \"Being \u0026amp; Becoming,\" \u003cb\u003eRyan Lee Wong\u003c\/b\u003e interviews An-My Lê and \u003cb\u003ePao Houa Her \u003c\/b\u003eabout photography, fiction, and truth in the aftermath of war. \u003cb\u003eBakirathi Mani\u003c\/b\u003e looks at artists engaging with collections and public archives shaped by colonial histories, while \u003cb\u003eXueli Wang\u003c\/b\u003e writes about those making work in domestic spaces as a way to push back against assimilation. \u003cb\u003eKen Chen\u003c\/b\u003e discusses Toyo Miyatake's striking record of life inside the Manzanar prison camp in the central Californian desert. \u003cb\u003eSimon Wu\u003c\/b\u003e reflects on performative conceptual photographer and documentarian of East Village life Tseng Kwong Chi and his downtown New York era. And \u003cb\u003eAleesa Pitchamarn Alexander \u003c\/b\u003espeaks\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ewith Reagan Louie, who has spent more than fifty years addressing issues of migration, cultural transformation, and intergenerational dialogue through photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the artist portfolios in \"Being \u0026amp; Becoming,\" \u003cb\u003eGina Osterloh\u003c\/b\u003e-whose work is featured on the cover-- experiments with the legibility and illegibility of identity. \u003cb\u003eLeonard Suryajaya\u003c\/b\u003e constructs exuberant scenes of life in Indonesia and Chicago. \u003cb\u003eArthur Ou \u003c\/b\u003econsiders the act of seeing the world as a precursor to understanding his place in it.\u003cb\u003e Guanyu Xu\u003c\/b\u003e layers images of domestic spaces, filled with symbols of home, history, and affection. \u003cb\u003ePriya Suresh Kambli \u003c\/b\u003emines family photographs to produce collages about migration and memory, and Jarod Lew composes \"deliberately uncluttered\" images of his family in Detroit. This issue also features essays from \u003cb\u003ePhoebe Chen, Tausif Noor, Mimi Wong, Amy Sadao, Xuan Juliana Wang, Amitava Kumar\u003c\/b\u003e, and\u003cb\u003e Simon Han.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The PhotoBook Review--included within every issue of Aperture as of summer 2022--\u003cb\u003eTaous Dahmani\u003c\/b\u003e speaks with \u003cb\u003eCéeacute;cile Poimboeuf-Koizumi, \u003c\/b\u003e bookmaker and co-founder of the Marseille-based independent publisher Chose Commune. \u003cb\u003eLena Fritsch\u003c\/b\u003e reviews an expansive new book that charts Japan's unparalleled history of photography in print publications. 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