magazine girls, part 2
As it turns out, More did give Teruko a solo cover, subscription version only:
They’re both stunning, but I love this one. Congrats, Teruko!!
(Update 5/1/05: I was in Target yesterday and glimpsed a cover of More with no Teruko at all—just the other model. What’s up with that?!?!)
And for those of you posting your congratulations to [...]
magazine girls
So, if it weren’t for the Sistagraphy mailing list I wouldn’t have known about Deb Willis being named one of “the 100 Most Important People in Photography” by American Photo magazine in their May/June 2005 issue (go, Deb!!).
Apparently it has been 7 years since they did one of these roundups. It may as well have [...]
"perpetual digressions of a soul wanderer"
I know I’m supposed to respond to responses, but I forgot to include Tawana, also a blogger (http://nappyscraps.blogspot.com), in my morning shout-outs (I borrow that title from her blog). Thanks for your note! It is young women like you who inspire me.
But let’s talk David LaChapelle (maybe I should be doing this on your blog?!) [...]
blogs and popes
I had a deadline last Friday so I sat down and created this blog. (I have one today so I’m writing the post.) Within the week, An old friend sent me her new blog URL and Delphine Fawundu-Buford, a photographer whose work I love but whom I don’t know also sent me hers (they’re both [...]
what’s new?
9 April 2005
In 2002, when I found out I had gotten a fellowship at Stanford, it seemed my career tide would turn. I had rarely gotten anything I’d applied for before, and this seemed real—it was year-long, it paid, and I’d gotten it as an independent. I quit my job and moved, expecting never to [...]
81 Press
- PITCH BLACKNESS BY HANK WILLIS THOMAS (APERTURE, 2008) December 8, 2008Pitch Blackness. Hank Willis Thomas, Aperture, October 2008, 128 Pages, ca. 125 four-color images, 8×10 inches (20×25 cm), ISBN: 978-1-59711-072-3, Hardcover, $35 On February 2, 2000, Songha Thomas Willis was shot to death outside a Philadelphia nightclub. He was 27 years old. The takeaway? A $400 gold chain. It’s the story [...]
- Hank Willis Thomas interview December 4, 2008Check out this interview with Hank Willis Thomas in PhotoEye magazine online, http://www.photoeye.com/magazine/features/2008/12_03_Hank_Willis_Thomas.cfm, in which he talks about his monograph Pitch Blackness.
- Obama at #15 November 24, 2008Poli-Book Best Seller List Based on sales for weeks ending Oct. 25 through Nov. 15, 2008 15. Obama, by Deborah Willis and Kevin Merida. (Amistad, $26.95.) Photographs capturing Obama’s 18-month campaign to the presidency. Rankings reflect aggregated sales for the weeks ending October 25 through November 15, 2008 at many thousands of venues where a wide range of [...]
cadre $10 artist grant
- Updates from Simone Leigh November 7, 2008Archeology of Wonder curated by Kristina Newman-Scott REAL ART WAYS October 4, 2008 —January 4, 2009 Opening reception: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 4-7PM Performance by Valerie Garlick, 4:30PM Closing reception: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 3-5PM 56 Arbor St Hartford CT 06106 860 232 1006 www.realartways.org Archaeology of Wonder brings together two disparate approaches to the past - archaeology with its meticulous discipline, and wonder with [...]
- Fall Exhibitions: ?Evocations? at Rose Issa Projects, London? Kala Fellowship Exhibition, Berkeley November 7, 2008I have a few projects coming up to share with you. I will be at Kala’s opening this Thursday, October 9, in Berkeley, and on October 20 at the artist reception for my first exhibition in London. Presented by Rose Issa, I will be exhibiting works from a number of series including The Alphabet of Silence, Most Wanted [...]