Listen to a discussion about Ernest Withers
Do a Civil Rights Photographer’s FBI Ties Complicate His Legacy?
Ernest Withers took many iconic images during the Civil Rights struggle
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(h/t The Takeaway)
Right to Return In the NO today & tomorrow
Right to Return
L9 CENTER FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS THE ANNUAL KATRINA CELEBRATION
New Orleans, LA
Saturday August 28, 2010
5pm-9pm
Sunday August 29, 2010
11am-6pm
539 Caffin Avenue
The Lower Ninth Ward, 70117
L9 Center for the Arts recognizes the determined residents in our community who continue to persevere in this struggle to return to New Orleans. For the past five years Keith Calhoun [...]
Upcoming at Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta
NEXT OPENING RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNING, JULY 13th, 7-9pm
Artist’s Talk: Saturday July 17th 2pm
SHEILA PREE BRIGHT - GIRLS, GRILLZ, & GUNS
DR. DEBORAH WILLIS – BOOK SIGNING FOR POSING BEAUTY
at Sandler Hudson Gallery in conjunction with National Black Arts Festival
Sandler Hudson Gallery is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition by Atlanta photographer, Sheila Pree Bright, entitled, Girls, Grillz [...]
Watch the webcast: Photography and Diaspora – A Critical Discourse on Africa, Visual Culture & Modernity
March 9, 2010
Photography and Diaspora – A Critical Discourse on Africa, Visual Culture & Modernity
Watch online: http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/video/photography-and-diaspora-critical-discourse-africa-visual-culture-modernity-moderated-renee-mu
Download: http://s3.amazonaws.com/media.dubois.org/PHOTGRAPHY_AND_AFRICA_20100309-iPhone.m4v
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
In conjunction with the the exhibit, “James Barnor: Ever Young” (on display in the Du Bois Institute’s Rudenstine Gallery during the spring 2010 academic term).
Moderated by Renee Mussai, Archive Project Manager, [...]
Venus 2010 @ NYU: Symposium (updated)
Venus 2010
March 27, 2010
New York University
721 Broadway, Riese Lounge
9:30 – Welcome
Deb Willis, Manthia Diawara
9:45 – Keynote: Elizabeth Alexander
10:15 –11:15: Sarah Baartman in Context
Presenters: Charmaine Nelson, Zine Magubane, and Carole Boyce Davies.
Moderator: Cheryl Finley
11:45-12:45: Sarah Baartman’s Legacy in Art and Art History
Presenters: Lisa Gail Collins, Cheryl Finley and Fo Wilson.
1:00 – 2:00: break, book signing
2:00-3:30: The [...]
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- Taking a Break February 8, 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 8, 2012[…]
- Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 8, 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 […]