All in Culture
In his new book Freedom and Masquerade, Charles Freger addresses the history of many different communities of indigenous peoples, while celebrating their survival in the modern day. The canvases he captures are the people, and the art he focuses on is the culture he observes.
Before the digital era, rebellion required more than simply clicking ‘like’ on a post. Gavin Watson captures the height of skinheads in Oh! What Fun We Had.
‘Knife + Heart’ is a romance sliced up in a gritty synth pop slasher. I shielded my eyes, I chuckled, and I wiped away tears. Sometimes, it’s true what Nazareth sang, “love is like a flame, it burns you when it’s hot.”
As talented as George Rodger was as a photojournalist of WWII, his collection Southern Sudan is very problematic. The hamartia of ethnographic photography is that of dehumanizing fascination. It is condescending towards the native subjects, as if they are inexplicably mysterious creatures who refuse to assimilate to Western standards of modernity.
In remembrance of Stonewall’s upcoming 50th Anniversary, Art after Stonewall, 1969 - 1989 serves up a delightful celebration hand-in-hand with skillful education. The sheer weight of LGBT artwork that was created in the twenty years following Stonewall is immeasurable, yet this photo book tenaciously delves into an ocean of LGBT works
On the evening of March 5th, at the Koenig & Clinton Gallery, American Artist and Terence Trouillot convened in an open conversation with a listening audience, discussing American Artist’s most recent exhibition “I’m Blue (If I Was █████ I Would Die)” to kick off the second day of NADA programs.
Photographed by Ed Kashi, Gary Knight, Danny Wilcox Frazier, and Ron Haviv, the lives of these people are put on display. The book MVP captures the realities of the lives of the men, women, and children in the struggling areas of the African continent.
As a timeline for the progression of photography, the myriad work on view in the collection Aperture Photographs is a display on the talent of visual storytelling that provides a platform, as well as gallery representation, for artists and photographers alike.