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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

Life After Death: Interviews with artists

The exhibition is down, unfortunately.

h/t Daily Hussy, via Tayari Jones’ blog

New artists, new artist’s sites

Documentary photographer Shelia Turner has a new page,  Shelia Turner Projects: http://www.wix.com/sheliaturner/shelia-turner

Check out Canadian artist Megan Morgan’s Re-Photograph (2008) series and, really, all of her work:From Morgan’s website:

Dimensions variable. Series of 30 black and white c prints on rag paper. Images are 7″x7″ on 9″x12″ paper in a 10″x13″ frame. Total installation size is 110″ [...]

How Howard Got His History Back

A young DJ stumbled on a warehouse cache and reunited a barrier-breaking photographer with some 500 lost works.
Read the story here: http://www.chicagoreader.com/gyrobase/howard-simmons-photographer-dave-mata-found-photos/Content?oid=1770313&storyPage=1#mce_temp_url#

Only 40 (or so) hours to go…UPDATED

Thanks again to all of my backers!
By Delphine Fawundu-Buford
In order for this project to be successful, we have to raise $3,830. in 40 hrs. I noticed that we have very few backers on the 5 and 10 dollar levels – of course the higher levels are driving the donations but I think that a mixture [...]

Seydou Keïta article

(thanks Amanda, via Deb)
A great article about the commercial legacy of Seydou Keïta. Here is
the link: http://zonezero.com/magazine/articles/rips/index.html

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      Website and Submission Guidelines Information: www.vanderbilt.edu/aframst/palimpsest Inquiries: PalimpsestJournal@vanderbilt.edu Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender and the Black International is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes cutting edge interdisciplinary scholarship and creative work by and about women of the African Diaspora and their commu […]
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