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Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance by Miriam Thaggert (Massachusetts, 2011)

Written by Carla on January 12, 2011 — Leave a Comment

Announcing the publication of a new book, Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance by Miriam Thaggert, ISBN: 978-1-55849-831-0, from the Univ. of Massachusetts Press:
Focusing on the years from 1922 to 1938, this book revisits an important moment in black cultural history to explore how visual elements were used in poems, novels, [...]

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Revue Noire Limited Editions

Written by Carla on November 28, 2010 — Leave a Comment

(Of course these go on sale after I get back from Paris, but you can probably order online. Those prices are not for the faint of heart.)
LIMITED EDITIONS
nouvelle exposition de la MAISON REVUE NOIRE / A new REVUE NOIRE exhibition
01 dec – 24 dec 2010
(du mercredi au samedi 13:00-19:00 et sur rendez-vous) / (Wed-Sat 1:00pm-7:00pm and [...]

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Delia’s Tears Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (Yale, 2010)

Written by Carla on October 13, 2010 — 1 Comment

Molly Rogers. Delia’s Tears: Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America, Yale University Press, April 26, 2010, 384 p., 7 x 9, 36 b/w, ISBN: 9780300115482, Cloth: $37.50.
From the publisher:
In 1850 seven South Carolina slaves were photographed at the request of the famous naturalist Louis Agassiz to provide evidence of the supposed biological inferiority of Africans. Lost for many years, [...]

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color blind by Bayeté Ross Smith (Maus Contemporary, 2010)

Written by Carla on October 6, 2010 — Leave a Comment

color blind. Bayeté Ross Smith, with essays and texts by Carla Williams, Chana Garcia and an interview of the artist by Kalia Brooks, Maus Contemporary, 2010, 134 pages 80 color photographs, $85.00.
“color blind” was published to accompany Bayeté Ross Smith’s solo show “Our Kind Of People” at beta pictoris gallery in Birmingham, AL September 10 [...]

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Journal of Unabridged Genius (JUG)

Written by Carla on September 13, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Now, you know you have to more than live up to your title if you go this route! I kind of love it. Per the website:
A major worldwide pracademic’s journal produced outside the academy,
…but well within your academic and career fields!
Unabridged means to be the most complete of its class. Genius means a strong leaning or [...]

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  • Taking a Break February 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 […]