I’m quite behind in updates, but I’d better start with this
(I edit their journal, exposure, I’m on a panel on Friday, “Unexpected Desire,” with Coco Fusco, Hank Willis Thomas, Wafaa Bilal, David Graham, Phyllis Galembo, and Deb Willis, who is also the honored educator, and lots of other great folks will be there this weekend.)
Keynote Speaker: Kip Fulbeck
Featured Speakers: Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie and Veronica Passalacqua
Featured Speaker: [...]
Double Exposure in Daytona Beach
Double Exposure
African Americans Before and Behind the Camera
January 23 – May 30, 2010
“The visual dialogue created by this exhibition links past, present, and future generations of African American artists. This dialogue seeks to help viewers explore the universal nature of memory and photographic representation in relation to their own personal histories.” – Lisa Henry
Saturday January [...]
Dress Code review in NYT
One of the shows I saw last weekend in NYC was “Dress Codes,” ICP’s triennial exhibition, which includes work by Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, Stan Douglas, Grace Ndiritu, Wangechi Mutu, Kalup Linzy, and Lorna Simpson. It just opened and is open through January 2010. There’s a catalog and fantastic gin & tonic glasses with [...]
Booksigning and conversation with Deborah Willis in Los Angeles this weekend
Deborah Willis
POSING BEAUTY
Conversation with the author and book signing
Saturday, October 10, 2009
4pm
ROBERTS & TILTON
5801 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232
T 323 549 0223
F 323 549 0224
www.robertsandtilton.com
info@robertsandtilton.com
Posing Beauty explores the contested ways in which African and African American beauty have been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media including photography, film, video, [...]
Fantastic elastic
Fantastic elastic
Web only
Published online 23 Sep 09
Andy Warhol was never one to shy away from kinkiness, so it comes as rather fitting to see an exhibition entitled “Unnatural Rubber” opening at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh this month. For the show, sponsor Lanxess Corporation, a leading manufacturer of synthetic rubber, invited 15 artists to [...]
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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 […]