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Check out these two young Los Angeles-based black women photographers.
Glynnis Reed
I have been working in photography and photo based media for over ten years and with digital imaging for about eight years. In my work I explore issues of identity and place and I am interested in the ways social environments shape our notions of [...]

A Knowledge beyond Text. Looking at each other, sharing interrogations14-20 November 2009 – Paris, Musée de l’Homme
Presentation in English / Presentation en français
CALL FOR PAPERS / CONTRIBUTIONS
The Comité du Film Ethnographique is organizing an International seven-days Conference to be held in Paris in November 2009. This Conference is to honor the scientific and [...]

I vote no…

…on this photo series in which Malcolm X’s troubled grandson, Malcolm Shabazz, recreates some of his grandfather’s famous photographs:
http://www.giantmag.com/content.php?cid=1413
What do you think (thanks, Lauren, for the link)? There’s also an interview/article.

Autograph ABP in association with The Centre for the Study of HumanRights at the London School of Economics presents:

DOCUMENTING DISAPPEARANCE:Algeria, state terrorism and the photographic image

Panel discussionThursday 15 May 2008 6.30 – 8.00at the New Theatre, LSE, East Building, Houghton StreetLondon, England

Barkley L. HendricksFind the new video on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IvTZJj0CA

The Barkley L. Hendricks exhibition and related programs are sponsored in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation and the North Carolina Arts [...]

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    • Interesting powerHouse news March 12, 2010
      Dear powerHouse follower— You are, with any luck, a retailer, a reviewer, a promoter, or just someone vigorously involved in the visual arts, and have been following us through our varied publications over the years and the copious press we made with them, and perhaps recall the risks, the successes, maybe even the élan to which [...] […]
    • Haiku in my Neighborhood (M. Hanks Gallery, 2009) March 12, 2010
      Haiku in my Neighborhood. Poems by Dee Dee McNeil, photographs by Roland Charles,  M. Hanks Gallery, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9821810-1-0, $25.00. (Pages from the book are viewable at Google Books online.) Haiku in my Neighborhood – a coffee table book of 50 haiku poems written by jazz singer/songwriter Dee Dee McNeil with photographs by noted photographer-ar […]
    • The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack by Barthélémy Toguo (Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 2010) March 12, 2010
      The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack” (”Le Journal Érotique d’un Bûcheron”). artist’s book by Barthélémy Toguo with 12 linocuts and texts, 38 x 26.5 cm, Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 1000€. […]