A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan
LaToya spent five months living in Flint, Michigan, documenting the lives of those affected by the city's water crisis for her photo essay Flint is Family. As the crisis dragged on, she realized it was going to take more than a series of photos to bring relief. In this inspiring, surprising TED talk, she shares the creative lengths she went to in order to bring free, clean water to the people of Flint.
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On Gordon Parks’ Legacy And Black Photography Today
ESSENCE Entertainment By Aramide Tinubu LaToya Ruby Frazier, Devin Allen and Jamel Shabazz are the Subject of the New Documentary, ‘A Choice Of Weapons: Inspired By Gordon Parks,’ Debuting On HBO. By the time Gordon Parks shot his first photograph for Life Magazine, his mother had died, racism had forced him out of his hometown […]
Photographer Gordon Parks inspired a new generation of artists
Los Angeles Times Entertainment & Arts By Deborah Vankin “A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks” debuts on HBO Monday night, a date that commemorates the photographer’s late November birthday. The film is less a chronological telling of Parks’ life story (the 2000 HBO documentary “Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon […]
A Visual History of Gordon Parks’ Art and Activism
Black Girl Nerds Movie Reviews By Cassondra Feltus HBO’s ‘A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks’ Is a Visual History of the Photographer’s Art and Activism This new documentary delves into the life and work of photographer, filmmaker, writer, composer, and activist Gordon Parks. Directed by John Maggio (Mr. Saturday Night), the documentary chronicles […]
‘A Choice Of Weapons: Inspired By Gordon Parks’
BlackFilm.com By Alex McGaughey Today HBO released the official trailer for the documentary, A Choice Of Weapons: Inspired By Gordon Parks. The film explores the enduring legacy of photographer, writer, composer, activist and filmmaker, Gordon Parks, and spotlights his visionary work and its impact on the next generation of artists. The film debuts Monday, November […]
The Last Cruze is one of ‘Our Favorite Photobooks of 2021’
Clément Chéroux Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography Michelle Elligott Chief of Archives, Library, and Research Collections MoMA selects LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Last Cruze (The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 2020) as one of ‘Our Favorite Photobooks of 2021’ [MoMA is] launching a new yearly celebration of the photobook. The […]
The Royal Photographic Society announces 2021 award recipients
LaToya Ruby Frazier was awarded the 2021 RPS Honorary Fellowship Award for her exceptional and innovative work connected to the art or science of photography. Read more… Courtesy of: The Royal Photographic Society
Photography That Focuses on Those Who Are Often Not Seen
The New York Times Fine Arts & Exhibits special report By Geraldine Fabrikant From New York to Los Angeles, Black, L.G.B.T.Q., Native American and women artists are exhibiting works that highlight their communities and personal perspectives. During the pandemic, Isolde Brielmaier, curator at large at the International Center of Photography, began wondering how Black photographers […]
Review: A remarkable ode to union workers in LaToya Ruby Frazier’s ‘The Last Cruze’
Los Angeles Times Art Review By Christopher Knight, Art Critic Unions built the American middle class in the decades after the Great Depression of the 1930s, the common wisdom goes, and a mountain of evidence backs up the claim. Yet things have been bleak in that regard for many years. One example is the centerpiece […]
François Pinault’s Bourse de Commerce Museum Opens in Paris
BlackBook Arts & Culture By Ken Scrudato As the boundaries of wealth ballooned at the outset of the 21st Century (and continue to do so, worryingly), it was apparently no longer enough for those holding said wealth to boast a considerable art collection. After all, lots of rich people own Rothkos, Picassos and Basquiats – […]
Tracking the turbulent concept of ‘care’ in a pandemic-ravaged world
48hills Independent San Fransico news + culture By Caitlin Donohue CCA’s ‘Contact Traces’ offers entry points for urgent discussion, on topics from environmental racism to commercial wellness shams. “Do you have any answers for me?” asks LaToya Ruby Frazier’s mother in “Detox (Braddock U.P.M.C.),” the 2011 video piece the artist contributed to “Contact Traces” (through […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness
The New York Times Style Magazine by Zoë Lescaze A marriage of art and activism, the artist’s searing photographs reveal the human toll of economic injustice. When General Motors announced plans to slash its domestic work force in 2018, company stock soared 5 percent. LaToya Ruby Frazier, a Chicago-based artist whose photographs and videos champion […]
Smudging the Line Between Art and Activism
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR The New York Times Style Magazine by Hanya Yanagihara Do artists have a duty to directly confront the injustices and inequalities around them? Anyone who’s read this magazine over the past four years knows that one of the things we’re most interested in here at T is what an artist’s relationship […]