photography
Rednecks, Reds, and the hues of struggle
April 25, 2024When you hear the word “redneck” what do you imagine? Farmworkers? Rural white people? There’s a history to the word.
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Dalí, Brathwaite, Soin: Dialogues about change at the Art Institute of Chicago
March 20, 2023A high-powered draw at the Art Institute.
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‘Start from the heart’: Black photographer Adger Cowans, life and times
August 2, 2022Given the Jim Crow era in which Cowans grew up and matured, “I took all that racism and rejection and everything,” he said, “and I put it in my work."
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Pain, hope, change: Boarded-up buildings become canvases for radical art
June 29, 2020Activist artists transform sealed businesses into public art broadcasting a message of resilience and social transformation.
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Burnt out buildings: Just property damage or a visualization of pain?
June 5, 2020Somehow, the reason “why” these demonstrations are taking place has been drowned out in the minds of many, overtaken by wrongly-placed fury over the destruction of things.
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