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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

HELP SAVE LORRAINE HANSBERRY THEATRE: Our 620 Sutter Street home is being threatened by new landlord Academy of Art [...]

hated it

I don’t generally review things here, but we went to see this documentary, Black, White & Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe last week as part of Frameline, and I was moved to, um, speak on it.
We hemmed and hawed, as we always do at the prospect of actually leaving the house, [...]

overdue

Please see the above announcement for a symposium in October about Judith Wilson’s scholarship. Papers will be presented by Renee Ater, Huey Copeland, Cheryl Finley, Jacqueline Francis, Juergen Heinrichs, and Charmaine Nelson.

last 3 days

San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Announcement

Bayeté Ross Smith
Bayeté Ross Smith

The San Francisco Arts Commission Galleryand PhotoAlliance present:Lens on LifeApril 12 – June 22, 2007
Please Join Us!Artists’ Reception: May 23, 5:30 – 7:30 pmCity Hall, Ground Floor
The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, in a programmatic partnership with PhotoAlliance, presents Lens on Life; [...]

news from Lorraine O’Grady

Dear Friends,
Greetings from San Antonio. It’s the first day of my two-month residency at Artpace.
Just wanted to let you know that MOCA has put my audio for the WACK! cellphone tour online. It’s in a group of four with those of Orlan, Marina Abramovic, and Yvonne Rainer. In the audio, I read a three-minute text [...]

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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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