What the Art World Can Learn From Women’s Basketball
"I met LaToya through the Gordon Parks Foundation in 2023, the year that I was honored at their gala. In my remarks, I talked about how I was motivated to follow Parks’s example in using art and storytelling to bring visibility to the WNBA. That resonated with LaToya because she is a former basketball player and has always wanted to tell their stories. When we met, we quickly discovered our shared passion for basketball and uplifting women athletes." —Clara Wu Tsai, New York Liberty Owner
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Aperture 223 Vision & Justice
Aperture: The Magazine of Photography and Ideas
“Vision & Justice”
Addresses the role of photography in the African American experience, guest edited by Sarah Lewis, distinguished author and art historian.
This issue features two covers:
Richard Avedon, Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, with his father, Martin Luther King, Baptist minister, and his son, Martin Luther King III, Atlanta, Georgia, March 22, 1963 and Awol Erizku, Untitled (Forces of Nature #1), 2014
2 x 9 1/4 inches
152 pages
978-1-59711-365-6 (Avedon)
978-1-59711-410-3 (Erizku)
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Performing Social Landscapes
10/16/2015 — 3/13/2016
Debut solo exhibition in France
Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain de Nimes
Exhibition catalog
Cecilia Alemani, Cherise Smith et Natalie Zelt
Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain
2015
12,00 €
Description
Edition bilingue, français / anglais
1 vol. ( 52 p.)
broché, ill. coul.
15 x 27.5 cm
ISBN 9782907650366
“LaToya Ruby Frazier (born 1982) takes as the subject of the photographs her home town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, or rather the people who live there. This is the working-class suburb of Pittsburgh, where there used to be a large steelworks. For a number of years she has been working on those close to her and taking them as witnesses to the economic slump. Her work belongs to a long tradition of committed photographers including Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and Gordon Parks. She is interested in three generations of women.”
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Courtesy of Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain
Photography At MoMA: 1960 To Now
Edited by Quentin Bajac, Lucy Gallun, Roxana Marcoci, and Sarah Hermanson Meister.
Essays by David Campany, Noam Elcott, Robert Slifkin, and Eva Respini.
ISBN: 9780870709692
2015
The Museum of Modern Art has one of the greatest collections of twentieth-century photography in the world. As one of three volumes dedicated to a new history of photography published by the Museum, this publication comprises a comprehensive catalogue of the collection post-1960s and brings a much-needed new critical perspective on the most prominent artists who have worked with the photographic medium over the last half-century. At a moment when photography is undergoing fast-paced changes and artists are seeking to redefine its boundaries in new and exciting ways, Photography at MoMA serves as an excellent resource for understanding this expanded field.
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