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Names Midweek

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in contrast / counterpoint to :

Adams, White

Les Krims

Duane Michaels

Arthur Tress

Lucas Samaras

Jerry Uelsman

Legacy of Larry Sultan: 
Dru Donovan, 
Jeff Rosenheim, 
Alec Soth & 
Kelly Sultan in conversation
Kelly Sultan
Kelly Sultan is a residential interior designer. She also assisted Larry in the studio and on various shoots. They collaborated on the project Have You Seen Me, 1994. She and Larry were married in 1987 and have two children. She is now the director of his estate. Kelly lives in Greenbrae, California.

Followed by signings with:
Talia Chetrit
Moyra Davey
Roe Ethridge
Nona Faustine
Rosalind Fox Solomon
Paul Graham
Justine Kurland
D'Angelo Lovell Williams
Ahndraya Parlato
Gail Rebhan
-Stephen Shore
-Alec Soth
dr. Sally Stein The interrelated topics she most often engages concern the multiple effects of documentary imagery, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black and white and color imagery on our perceptions, beliefs, even actions as consumers and citizens.  

Jameson- end of modernism” FREDRIC JAMESON, in his magisterial work, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), has offered us a particularly influential analysis of our current postmodern condition. Like Jean Baudrillard, whose concept of the simulacrum he adopts, Jameson is highly critical of our current historical situation; indeed, he paints a rather dystopic picture of the present, which he associates, in particular, with a loss of our connection to history. What we are left with is a fascination with the present. According to Jameson, postmodernity has transformed the historical past into a series of emptied-out stylizations (what Jameson terms pastiche) that can then be commodified and consumed. “–https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/theory/postmodernism/modules/jamesonpostmodernity.html

Ming Smith: Filmday

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Ming Smith….

“Smith was the first Black female photographer acquired by the Museum of Modern Art and the first female member of the influential Black photography collective, Kamoinge. She was one of the first African American women to break the color barrier in modeling alongside Grace Jones and Toukie Smith. Gordon Parks wrote of Smith, stating her “wonderous imagery… gives eternal life to things that might well have been forgotten.” Her works respond to the struggles of city living, while also celebrating the community and pride produced by it. Taking her camera with her as she travelled the world, these images are a chronicle of her discerning eye.”

Ming Smith — getting something…

Make do.. Make more with what you have. The doing is the art part.

And

The things we use are not requirements for where we get.

First questions are common among those who achieve influence and those who remain on side steps. The tournament doesn’t reward new shoes as much as it does new views … the runner who gets further is able to stay longer.

More..

“As an artist, recognition for her work only came recently thanks to several high-profile exhibitions. Not limited to photography she also uses post production techniques, collage and paint to create her works. Smith was recently included in ‘Soul of a Nation’ at Tate Modern in collaboration with Brooklyn Museum, Crystal Bridges and The Broad. She was also featured in Brooklyn Museum’s ‘We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85.’ Smith’s work is in the collections of MoMA, the Whitney Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the National Museum of African-American History and Culture. She was included in MoMA’s 2010 seminal exhibition, ‘Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography’.” https://mingsmithstudio.com/about

it is better to be craft poor and picture rich

RL/webionaire