Yto Barrada creates limited-edition print for Aperture's 70th anniversary issue referencing Bettina Grossman

Yto Barrada produced a special limited-edition print for Aperture magazine's 70th anniversary issue, number 248. The work references the magazine's history and the art of Bettina Grossman, an artist whose multidisciplinary practice has recently gained recognition partly due to Barrada's efforts. Barrada's print uses Color-aid cards from Grossman's studio, placing them with 1970s issues of Aperture on a faux leather table to create photographic compositions. She describes her process as following the objects' directions, akin to an exquisite corpse, to generate new associations. The 1970s saw Aperture exploring diverse photographic visions, from early French photography in Spring 1970 to snapshots by Garry Winogrand, Nancy Rexroth, and Joel Meyerowitz in Fall 1974. Barrada notes the magazine's changing size, format, and design during that decade. The print is a pigment print with an image size of 18 x 27 inches and paper size of 24 x 32 1/4 inches, in an edition of 10 plus 3 artist's proofs, signed and numbered. It ships from New York within 3–5 days.