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Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities

The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art is the only museum in the nation that emphasizes works by and about women of the African Diaspora.
NOW ON VIEW THROUGH DECEMBER 5, 2009
Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities, on view now through December 5, 2009, is an original exhibition organized by the Spelman College Museum of [...]

Posing Beauty @ NYU

**Media are invited to the opening reception and book signing on October 8, 2009 from 6-8 p.m.**
NYU Photography & Imaging Department Announces The Opening of
Posing Beauty
Exhibition Dates: September 1st, 2009 through October 18th, 2009
The exhibition will be on view in the Gulf + Western Gallery and in the 8th floor gallery of the [...]

Kwame Anthony Appiah in conversation with Lyle Ashton Harris

Please join us for an exciting event in celebration of Blow Up, Lyle Ashton Harris’s retrospective monograph recently published by Gregory R. Miller & Co.
Kwame Anthony Appiah in conversation with Lyle Ashton Harris
Tuesday, November 18, 7pm
Department of Art and Art Professions
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, New York University
Einstein Auditorium
34 Stuyvesant Street, Ground [...]

S&M Live!

If you happen to be in New York…
S&M Live!
Tuesday, November 11, 7:00-9:00pm
Barney Building, 34 Stuyvesant Street (at 3rd Ave. and 9th St.), Rosenberg Gallery
Shrines & Masquerades Live!
Please join us for an extraordinary evening of performance art inspired by the African traditions of shrines and masquerades, as well as the negotiation of identity in cosmopolitan America.
As [...]

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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 8, 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, [...] […]
    • A New Mission for Aperture? February 8, 2012
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    • Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 8, 2012
      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 […]


  • "Dedicated to the real photographers of the world—to those who, with their second-hand equipment and their makeshift darkrooms, are today fighting their solitary battles with their recalcitrant medium, not for money or for glory, but because they would rather make pictures than anything else in the world." - William Mortensen
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