Category Archives: Photography
Ralph Ellison, Gordon Parks: Photographers
Sept 18, 2014 The photos, under the title “A Man Becomes Invisible,” were in Life Magazine, 25 August 1952, close on the heels of novel’s publication earlier that year, on April 14. It was a coup. Parks had been a … Continue reading
Posted in African-American literature, collaboration, Photography, Race
Tagged " Life Magazine, "From Harlem is Nowhere", Farm Security Administration, Gordon Parks, Harlem, Invisible Man, James Baldwin, LaFargue Psychiatry Clinic, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberrry, Magazine of the Year, Ralph Ellison, Richard Avedon, Richard Wright, Roy DeCarava
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James Baldwin’s friends
July 31, 2013 Well, at least they went to high school together, that accounts for it: DeWitt Clinton High School, in the north Bronx. By the time James Baldwin and Richard Avedon brought out Nothing Personal (1964), they’d known … Continue reading
Posted in African-American literature, Educational institutions, Photography
Tagged a Rap on Race, Bronx, DrWitt Clinton High School, Huey Newton, Istanbul, James Baldwin, John Wayne, Magpie Tower, Margaret Mead, Maya Angelou, New York Times, Nina Simone, Paris, Richard Avedon, Sol Stein, Toni Morrison
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Edward Weston, Walt Whitman: Grass
November 7, 2012 Whitman, poet of New Jersey and New York. Also poet of grass, the force of demographics, what comes up from the ground. He would have been unsurprised by Hurricane Sandy, or by the rising sea levels … Continue reading
Posted in Atlantic, Autobiography, Cities, Climate change, collaboration, Environmentalism, Modern art, Nineteenth-century literature, oceans, Photography, planet, print medium, Publishers, Remediation, twentieth century art, Vernacular dialects, Visual arts
Tagged Arizona, Boston, Charis Wilson, Edward Weston, Georgia, Hurricane Sandy, Limited Edition Club, Museum of Fine Arts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Paumanok, St. Simon's Island, Walt Whitman, Yaqui
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