The Drawer is a visual autobiography of Aletti’s deep canon of inspiration, experience and multi-media obsessions collected over five decades. Created and captured in a single day, each collage is a flurry of free association. This book animates his refined sense of composition, eclectic juxtaposition of image and text and chronicles the tectonic shifts of art and visual culture.
In this conversation,Vincediscusses, among other things:
The intentionality of the photographer
Intuitive arrangements between images—in both exhibition and book form
Unselfconscious coupling of imagery
Art informing how we think
Magazine culture
Subversion
Advertising driving editorial
Undermining narratives
How to make a life in photography
Fun or nothing
Being the Bill Cunningham of contemporary photography
Referenced in the episode
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The Moon Is Behind Us by Fazal Sheikh
Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation
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