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, Vince discusses, 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

Issues: A History of Photography in Fashion Magazines by Vince Aletti

C/O Berlin

SPBH

School of Visual Arts, NYC

Lillian Bassman

Judith Joy Ross

Peter Hujar

True Homosexual Experiences: Boyd McDonald and Straight to Hell

Dawoud Bey

The Moon Is Behind Us by Fazal Sheikh

Adam Fuss

Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation

Dashwood Books

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