Amistad to Publish Photo Book of Obama’s Campaign*
By Lynn Andriani
HarperCollins’s Amistad imprint announced today it will publish Obama: The HistoricCampaign in Photos on October 28 with a 250,000-copy first printing. The book willcover Barack Obama’s campaign from its beginning through June, and will includemore than 150 full color and b&w photographs plus an introductory essay.
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These photos are from the opening and panel discussion for Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera at MoAD from their Flickr group. So cute, Kesha (top) and April & Amanda (bottom), all in front of their works! Check out the whole group. The artists and work in this show are lovely and [...]
Culture Project invites you to special preview performances Expatriate!
EXPATRIATE is an electrifying exploration of black womanhood, sexuality, art and addiction, celebrating characters in the spirit of Nina Simone, Josephine Baker and the Hottentot Venus. A new play that combines poetic dialogue with realistic scenes and concert numbers, this all-vocal dramatic musical tells the story [...]
Ramekon O’Arwisters
“Everyone is afraid to taste the flavor of my existence.” -Ramekon O’Arwisters
A new artist (to me, and, seriously, one of the best names ever [formerly Tim Taylor]). Check out his Flickr photostream (from where this image comes) athttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ramekon
and some bio info and a brief statement at ArtSlant.
“Transformations: Black Power Salute in Confederate Drag”
Ramekon O’Arwisters “SuperART [...]
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ART CHURCH
and Closing of 100% Other: Artists and Psycho-Demographic Transitions
and “Rich” by Kyungmi Shin
Gallery Walk-through 6:00pm with Curator Tyler Stallings
Art Church 7:30pm
Friday, June 27, 2008
18th Street Arts Center
1639 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA
18th Street Arts Center and host, Kyungmi Shin, are proud to present an evening of performance art. Todd Gray will facilitate the [...]
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- Taking a Break February 4, 2012Site 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[…]
- Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 4, 2012Danielle 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 […]