Vince Aletti – författare

The first book to showcase and critically explore the groundbreaking photography of fashion magazines over the last centuryFor nearly a century, fashion magazines have provided sophisticated platforms for cutting-edge photography – work that challenges conventions and often reaches far beyond fashion itself. In this book, acclaimed photography critic Vince Aletti has selected 100 significant magazine issues from his expansive personal archive, revealing images by photographers rarely seen outside their original context. With his characteristic élan and featuring stunning images, Aletti has created a fresh, idiosyncratic, and previously unexplored angle on the history of photography.

A lively history of queer photography, unfolding across over 100 images and abundant text contributionsPublished with Columbus Museum of Art.Spanning the early 20th century to the present, this volume offers an illustrated account of the layered, interconnected histories of queer photography. Featuring 100 plates from the Aronowitz Family Collection, Queer Constellations also includes contextualizing texts. An introduction by coeditor Vince Aletti and a conversation between Aletti and collector David Aronowitz consider the origins and evolution of the collection, while an essay by coeditor Kaitlin Booher examines the networks of artists, collectors and communities that shape queer photographic history. The volume also includes short essays on selected artists by Daniel Peacock, Christopher Stackhouse, Alisa Swindell and Rae Root.Photographers include: Ajamu X, David Armstrong, Richard Avedon, Stephen Barker, Wilhelm Von Gloeden, JEB, Bruce of Los Angeles (Bruce Bellas), Sam Contis, Clifford Prince King, Shelby Sharie Cohen, Adolph de Meyer, Jimmy DeSana, John Dugdale, John Edmonds, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Andrea Geyer, Camilo Godoy, Nan Goldin, Tim Greathouse.

A new edition of the essential chronicle of disco cultureIn 1973, Vince Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging disco scene. His engagement with disco nightlife continued throughout the decade as he wrote his weekly column for Record World magazine, which incorporated top ten playlists from DJs across the US (such as Larry Levan, Larry Sanders, Walter Gibbons, Tee Scott and Nicky Siano) alongside Aletti's own writings and interviews.As disco grew from an underground secret to a billion-dollar industry, Aletti was there to document it, and The Disco Files is his personal memoir of those days, containing everything he wrote on the subject (most of it between 1974 and1978) augmented with photography by Peter Hujar and Toby Old. This book is the definitive and essential chronicle of disco, true from-the-trenches reporting that details, week by week, the evolution of the clubs, the DJs, and above all, the music, through magazine articles, beautiful photographs, hundreds of club charts and thousands of record reviews.Photocopies of Aletti's Record World columns circulated for years among DJs and music lovers, until they were finally collected in 2009 into the first edition of The Disco Files, an instant classic that quickly sold out. This new edition of The Disco Files brings Aletti's compulsively readable disco writing back into print, adding an interview with Fran Lebowitz originally published in the Village Voice in 1990.Throughout his career, curator, writer and critic Vince Aletti (born 1945) has been at the forefront of music, culture and the arts. He wrote for Record World and Rolling Stone and covered the club scene in the late 1970s and 1980s for the Village Voice, where he would serve as art editor until 2005. In addition to curating numerous photography exhibitions, Aletti writes about photography for the New Yorker.