"Vince Aletti is a writer, curator, and critic whose work appears regularly in Artforum and Aperture, among other publications. Based in New York City, Aletti served as art editor of the Village Voice from 1994 to 2005 and is former photography critic for The New Yorker. Male, a book of images from his personal collection, was published in 2008, and in 2005 he won the ICP Infinity Award for Writing."