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Hinton, Milt. Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton’s Life in Stories and Photographs (Vanderbilt University Press, 2008)

Written by Nzingha on March 14, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton’s Life in Stories and Photographs. Milt Hinton, David G. Berger, Holly Maxson, foreword by Clint Eastwood, Vanderbilt University Press, January 2008, 384 pages, 260 illustrations,
11 x 9.5 inches, ISBN: 978-0-8265-1574-2, Cloth w/ CD, $75.00.
I was born in Mississippi…the year was 1910..we moved up to Chicago…and I never went back [...]

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Harris, Lyle Ashton. Blow Up (Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2008)

Written by Myra on February 22, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up. Essays by Cassandra Coblentz, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, and Kwame Anthony Appiah, Introduction by Susan Krane.  Conversation with Senam Okudzeto, Gregory R. Miller & Co., June 2008, 50 color and 25 black and white images, Paperback (linen cover), ISBN: 978-0-9743648-9-6, US $50.00.

For many the title Blow Up refers to Michelangelo Antonioni’s [...]

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Thomas, Hank Willis. Pitch Blackness (Aperture, 2008)

Written by Danielle on December 8, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Pitch Blackness. Hank Willis Thomas, Aperture, October 2008, 128 Pages, ca. 125 four-color images, 8×10 inches (20×25 cm), ISBN: 978-1-59711-072-3, Hardcover, $35.
On February 2, 2000, Songha Thomas Willis was shot to death outside a Philadelphia nightclub. He was 27 years old. The takeaway? A $400 gold chain. It’s the story [...]

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  • Taking a Break February 6, 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, [...] […]
  • What if there were no more art galleries? February 6, 2012
    6×6 – An Art Version of a Music Festival ABOUT THIS PROJECT What is 6×6? Beginning on September 8, 2011, our roaming gallery Baang and Burne Contemporary will present 6×6, (six by six) a series of six, back to back, one week only art exhibitions in New York City. 6×6 was created by artists, for artists. Essentially 6×6, is [.. […]
  • The Stoop Gallery Call for Submissions February 6, 2012
    The Stoop Gallery is currently accepting submissions for the upcoming show date and theme: Art. Science. Body: How art and science merge to create identity narratives. July 30, 2011 This week, Psychology Today published an article focusing on why African American women are less physically attractive than other women. The methodology of the research was not m […]