love and loathing
Love this note I recently got from a dear friend:
I hear some kids in Harlem say the N-word is whack. They now refer to one another as Prezident.
This, purportedly from a Barnes & Noble window, not so much:
UPDATE: Apparently it was tampered with: http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/press_releases/2009_march_6_coral_gables.html but really, they didn’t see someone climbing around in the window [...]
from zoe strauss
Dear Friends,
Last night after it was called that Barack Obama was the President-elect, people ran out to Broad St to celebrate, like we had done the last week when the Phillies won. It was a smaller crowd, but people banged pots and pans and honked horns.
Some guy stopped his car in the middle of [...]
Okay, Deb, I see you! (And congratulations!)
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Check out Laylah Amatullah Barrayn’s photos from the opening at Leica Gallery of Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nightqueen/sets/72157607373873995/
Laylah stays on it! These are really fun with Lewis Watts, co-curator Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Hank Thomas, Laylah, Miriam Romais, Lola Flash, and a host of other recognizable faces and names in [...]
Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs
Curated by Deborah Willis & Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
September 19 – November 8, 2008
*Reception: *
*Thursday, September 18, 2008 *
*6:00 – 8:00pm*
Lecia Gallery – NYC
Oskar Barnack Room
670 Broadway
New York City 10012
(212) 777-3051
leicaphoto@aol.com
This exhibition has been generously supported by Amistad, an imprint of
HarperCollins Publishers
Book-signings:
Thursday, October 30, 5-7pm
Saturday, November 1, 2-4pm
Obama: The Historic Campaign in [...]
guess who designed this cover?
Congrats, Hank!
On the Cover: Illustration by Hank Willis Thomas. Photographs by Brooks Craft/Corbis (Michelle) and Soren McCarty/Wire Image (Barack).
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