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Artists and Scholars Join to Discuss the Creation of Black Visual Archives
The free-to-attend Black Portraiture[s] conference will focus on the creation of visual archives in the context of landmark moments in Black history.
Photography
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The Ways She Looks and Looks Back at Us: Tracing the Gaze in Portraits of African Women
In a sprawling new photography exhibition at the Ryerson Image Center, the joy of self-definition offers its own form of resistance.
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Seeing Consent Through the Lens of Body Language
Photographer Tommy Kha's Return to Sender exhibition at LMAK Gallery frames him as his own subject — a listless participant in a series of intimate encounters.
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Photos of 1968 California Show a Surreal Way of Life
Dennis Stock’s California is that of an outsider, shooting the most obvious aspects of West Coast life against the diverse, strange, and fascinating backdrop of the late 1960s.
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Inmates Annotate an Archive of Prison Photos With Their Own Stories
The results are arresting, as the writers, who are also men in prison, make anonymous images their own, speaking out of their own experiences, bringing insights and empathy that no outside critic or art historian could.
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Photography From Africa that Refuses Easy Narratives
Africa State of Mind does not pander to expectations audiences might have or desire of African artists, instead allowing for these artists from 11 different countries to devise their own frameworks for understanding the places they are from.
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The Astonishing Discovery of an Artist’s 9,200 Portraits of an Alternate Queer Self
The previously unknown Polaroids of April Dawn Alison were not just snatched from the jaws of oblivion, but are now in an esteemed museum collection.
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Capturing Optimism in Photographs of Chinatowns Around the World
From Bangkok to New York City, Cindy Trinh's documentary photography series No Boundaries captures Asian and Asian-American experiences through food, labor, and culture.
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“It’s a Gold Rush Town”: How Artists Survive in San Francisco
Hyperallergic talks to various artists in the Bay Area about how they've hung on through years of economic turmoil.
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Composites of a Constantly Changing Female Identity
Zohra Opoku's sensitive and nuanced consideration of female, cultural, and cross-cultural identities are highly personal and profoundly politically relevant.
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Considering the Weight and Worth of Gold
Through a range of visual and poetic essays, Lisa Barnard’s The Canary and The Hammer offers a heady examination of our enduring fascination with the element.
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Finding Beauty in the Mundane Landscapes of Northern Italy
In Luigi Ghirri's Colazione sull’Erba, previously unpublished images from the photographer’s archive present a sparsely populated world of placid tranquility.