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foto von ming smith (zwischenzeitlich auch als ming murray bekannt), 1978 aufgenommen. aus einem ziemlich brillanten essay von namwali serpell, der in einem smith-katalog abgedruckt ist, der im oktober erscheinen wird[… ]
Mehr zu Ming Smith:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/ming-smiths-pioneering-excavations-of-black-femininity
Im Artikel auch nochmal das unschöne Beispiel von cancel culture, die nicht von der bösen, Identitätspolitik betreibenden Minderheit ausging (solche Besipiele sind ja zahlreich, aber werden in der wohlfeilen Debatte heute nur zu gerne verschwiegen, dünkt mich):
One major difference between this picture and those, besides the fact that Smith is Black, is how tightly she clutches the camera, one of her hands grabbing the Canon with such intensity that her fingers look almost like claws.
For me, those hands symbolize so much. When Smith started out in photography, in the seventies, Black photographers were often overlooked by the major museums and galleries, or fetishized and misread. One notorious low point of the era was the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Harlem on My Mind,” in 1969, which purported to document the neighborhood’s creative legacy but eschewed all Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement painting, sculpture, and drawing. Instead, the exhibition used photographs to illustrate Harlem’s history and undercut their significance by presenting them less as art than as sociological documentation. The Harlem photographer Roy DeCarava, who refused to participate in the show, said at the time that the organizers had “no respect for or understanding of photography, or, for that matter, any of the other media that they employed. I would say also that they have no great love or understanding for Harlem, Black people, or history.”
Wenig Jazz-Bezug, aber da ihr Name hier ja schon gefallen ist …
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