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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

is it just me…

…or should Chester have sold a different idea to Tavis Smiley for the cover of The Covenant than the one he’d already sold to MoAD? Isn’t that supposed to be a signature image for the museum? I ain’t mad at ya, Chester, you gotta get in where you fit in, so to speak, but as [...]

wash new underwear before wearing!

I wasn’t going to write this post, but I’m bored and haven’t posted for 10 days, so why not?
Last week I went to the SPE National conference in Chicago. I’ve never been to Chicago and could probably still say that. Conferences have a way of sucking up your every spare moment so much so that [...]

for those of us who teach

Deirdre was going through some old stuff from grad school and came across a student’s quiz where they’d been asked to define “art canon”:

‘Art canon’ means one who creates art excessively. It is he who makes artwork that is both stunning and explosive (hence, the word, ‘canon’). It is the artist that makes work that [...]

it’s come to this

Or has it? Will it?
http://mollysavestheday.blogspot.com/2006/02/for-women-of-south-dakota-abortion.html

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  • CARLAGIRL PHOTO was founded on 14 February 1999 by Carla Willliams, a photographer, writer, and editor, born, raised and heading back to (yea!) Los Angeles, California.

    It was established with two goals: to be able to make my own work widely available for free, and to make accessible my research about artists of the African Diaspora, especially photographers, and in particular women. As it developed it grew to also include GLBTQ artists.

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    • Taking a Break February 4, 2012
      Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
    • A New Mission for Aperture? February 4, 2012
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    • Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 4, 2012
      Danielle was briefly a contributor to this site; I am very excited to hear about her latest venture, the collective and now journal Mambu Badu “that seek to find, expose, and nurture emerging female photographers of African descent.”  Congrats, Danielle! As you may (or may not) know, last fall, I co-founded Mambu Badu, a photography collective […]


  • "Dedicated to the real photographers of the world—to those who, with their second-hand equipment and their makeshift darkrooms, are today fighting their solitary battles with their recalcitrant medium, not for money or for glory, but because they would rather make pictures than anything else in the world." - William Mortensen
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