This issue on Photography Here and Now investigates the diverse esthetic and artistic components of  this “young” medium. In this age of Instagram, everyone is a photographer and any cliché a photograph. Does this push photography toward its end? In his short book La Chambre claire/Camera Lucida (1980), Roland Barthes made the association with death by writing that the subject photographed is rendered an object, dispossessed of itself, thus becoming “death in person.” Of course, those with neither the time nor the inclination to philosophize see it completely differently, and see the photograph as proof of life eternal.

Contents

Cover: RON (2013) by Catherine Opie

Poster by John Divola
rector: FROM ZUMA SERIES (1977-1978)
verso: FROM DOGS CHASING MY CAR IN THE DESERT (1996-1998)

OPTIC NERVE
Catherine Opie in conversation with Dorothée Perret

COLLISIONS AHEARD
By Brendan Fowler and Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer

PERVERSION IS BLISS
By Andrew Berardini and Torbjørn Rødland

ANARCHY IN THE BELLE EPOQUE
By Aaron Sandnes and Barlo Perry

THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY: A MAPPLETHORPE PORTFOLIO
By Ohwow and the Robert Mapplethorpe  Foundation

OUT THERE
John Divola and Marius Engh in conversation with DOROTHÉE PERRET

TRACES
By Marlene Marino

STILL LIFE, AND MASK
By Hanna Liden

Centerfold: PARIS LA SUMMER 2014 CHANEL AD CAMPAIGN REMIX by PFL