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Monthly Archives: June 2014
Collective Presence, Collective Resistance
The fierce pussy collective challenge lesbian and queer invisibility by asserting their identities through a number of public projects that push back against heteronormative culture. The increased attention to AIDS and gay rights in the early 1990s galvanized the group … Continue reading
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Tagged AIDS, AIDS Graphics, Dyke, fierce pussy, graffiti, Lesbian, propaganda, queer, street art
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From Whence The Clouds They Came
Frank Wendt, Jump from the Clouds with the Aid of a Parachute, 1899 (2011.47.123) Robert Capa, [Student makes first jump from 300m, Parachute School, Paris], Fall 1935 (197.1992) Robert Capa, [French air force parachute school at Avignon-Pujaut], 1939 (2010.85.570) Martin … Continue reading
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Tagged aviation, Balloon, Frank Wendt, Jill Freedman, jumping, Martin Munkacsi, Parachute school, Robert Capa, skydiving, sports
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Bermuda Race June 20th, 2014
Every two years in mid June sailors descend upon Rhode Island to enter a race that will have them travel 635 nautical miles to the finish line on the island of Bermuda. The Bermuda Race, as it is called, was … Continue reading
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Tagged Jill Freedman, Martin Munkacsi, Robert Capa, Sailing, The Bermuda Race, Yachting
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Truth in advertising
Often a distinction is made between “commercial” and “artistic” photography but as these works show a photograph can be both at the same time. Manuel Alvarez Bravo, El Sistema Nervioso Del Gran Simpatico, ca. 1929 (1.1979.b) Gjon Mili, Powder … Continue reading
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Tagged advertisement, Gjon Mili, Gordon Coster, Kyle, Manuel Alvarez Bravo
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Lou Bernstein Can’t Swim
For over 30 years Lou Bernstein spent mornings at the New York Aquarium photographing the lives of the resident sea animals. In his 1992 New York Times Article, The Dance of a Dolphin, Forever Frozen on Film, John Durniak states, … Continue reading
A Spectator Sport
Morris Gordon [Fans watching horse races, Jamaica Bay, New York], 1948 (2012.121.34) There is much more to horse racing than the race itself. While the appeal of racing horses has long stemmed from the masculine superiority demonstrated in the sheer … Continue reading
Jerry Uelsmann’s Lesser Seen Images
Jerry Uelsmann, Little Golden Hamburger Tree, 1970, (516.1994) Jerry Uelsmann, Workshop Print, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, 1973, (165.1980) Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1977, (126.1981) Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1992, (2011.78.26)
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