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Art Talk and Poetry for James Baldwin this Sunday!

Joyce Gordon Gallery
proudly presents
Artist talk with Ted Pontiflet and Poetry Reading
with the Black Dot Artists in honor of James Baldwin
This Sunday!

In the Spirit of James
“The James Baldwin Series”
Photographs and Paintings
by Ted Pontiflet
August 7-31 2009

James Baldwin was born in Harlem and educated in New York City schools.  His novels and essays reverberate with honesty, moral urgency [...]

COLOSSUS | Nekisha Durrett | poem by David C. Ward | Opening Reception Fri. Sept. 4th 6-9pm | Hillyer Art Space WDC

African American Photo Archive Special Event @ Boston – Thursday, August 27th, 8:00pm

Uncovering Hidden Photo Archives of the African American Experience in Massachusetts

Harlem USA – August 18, 2009: Award winning filmmaker, Thomas Allen Harris , invites local residents to join the DIGITAL DIASPORA FAMILY REUNION by bringing interesting stories and samples of their African American family photo albums to be scanned and digitized as part of a [...]

Kalia Brooks on Dan Graham

Kalia Brooks’ article on Dan Graham is featured on the homepage of Whitehot magazine. Congrats, Kalia!

Vanity Fair and Banana Republic Present Project:Involve City Stories

I received an email about this
Banana Republic and Vanity Fair present Project:Involve City Stories, a series of short films inspired by the French New Wave cinema aesthetic of the Banana Republic Fall 2009 campaign.
View the work of 40 independent filmmakers, cast your vote for your favorite short, and enter for your chance to win a [...]

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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 7, 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, [...] […]
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      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 […]


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