CIVIL RIGHTS MUG SHOTS (“WE SHALL OVERCOME”)
The Montgomery County Alabama Sheriff’s Office discovered arrest logs and photographs from the time of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56) and the Freedom Rides (1961).
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Jacob Holdt – Not Born in the USA, A Vagabond’s Views
Jacob Holdt would hitchhike over 100,000 miles through virtually every region of the United States without much more than his thumb.
‘That Dark’, Melancholy and Death in the Works of Catherine Anyango
Mike Brown @ Catherine Anyango “One may say that the Negro in America does not really exist, except in the darkness of our minds.” James Baldwin – Notes from a Native Son By Michael Salu, ASX, February 2015 It is THAT dark. You know, the dark that exists under your fingernails that you idly […]
Dorothea Lange: “Portraits” (1935 – 1939)
American photographer. From 1914 to 1917 she attended the New York Training School for Teachers and there decided to become a photographer, partly influenced by visits to the photographer Arnold Genthe. From 1917 to 1918 she attended a photography course run by Clarence H. White at Columbia University, NY. Lange moved to San Francisco […]
Milton Rogovin’s Approach: Photography, Class, and the Aesthetics of Making Space (2008)
The years during which Rogovin completed this series represented a period of great loss and decline for industrial labor in the U.S., especially in traditional manufacturing cities like Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo… Milton Rogovin’s “Approach”: Photography, Class, and the Aesthetics of Making Space By Joseph Entin, Brooklyn College, City University of New York (Note: […]