https://padlet.com/jn6509/l60lmxl901kj1gh4 Made with a quick smile en-us 2020-12-14 16:20:31 UTC 2023-03-30 07:28:29 UTC hello@padlet.com jn6509 https://padlet.com/jn6509/l60lmxl901kj1gh4/wish/1016625317 The Mapplethorpe obscenity trial—the first time a museum was taken to court on criminal charges related to works on display—became one of the most heated battlefronts in the era’s culture wars. Taking place over two weeks in the fall of 1990, the resulting attention challenged perceptions of art, public funding, and what constituted «obscenity.» A quarter century on, the trial’s impact can still be felt, and is being recognized in Cincinnati, the city where it all took place, with a series of events and exhibits.]]> 2020-12-14 16:26:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jn6509/l60lmxl901kj1gh4/wish/1016625317 jn6509 https://padlet.com/jn6509/l60lmxl901kj1gh4/wish/1016645937 When the exhibit opened in April 1990, Hamilton County prosecutors charged CAC director Dennis Barrie and the museum itself with obscenity, the first time criminal charges had been levied against a museum in the United States. News outlets from the coasts portrayed Cincinnati as a cultural backwater that would rather lock up a museum director than be confronted with difficult art.]]> 2020-12-14 16:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jn6509/l60lmxl901kj1gh4/wish/1016645937 jn6509 https://padlet.com/jn6509/l60lmxl901kj1gh4/wish/1016757559 In 1902, Stieglitz invited him to become a founding member of the Photo-Secession, and his facility with complicated photographic techniques such as the gum bichromate and autochrome processes, as well as his refined aesthetic sensibility, matched the artistic ambitions of the group perfectly.

]]> 2020-12-14 16:50:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jn6509/l60lmxl901kj1gh4/wish/1016757559 jn6509 https://padlet.com/jn6509/l60lmxl901kj1gh4/wish/1016791720 Whether showing a young girl working in a cotton mill or groups of boys breaking coal, his photographs exposed the dark underbelly that was pushing forward the American Industrial Revolution and were instrumental in enacting change. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Hine continued to photograph workers, giving us a window into the backbreaking labor needed to build up the American economy. Over time, the public has come to appreciate the important role Hine's work had in shaping social justice in the first half of the 20th century. Hine's son later donated his prints and negatives to the Eastman Museum, after they were turned down by MoMA.

Hine once said, « the Human Document to keep the present and the future in touch with the past.» And indeed, by this definition, he certainly fulfilled his duty.]]> 2020-12-14 16:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jn6509/l60lmxl901kj1gh4/wish/1016791720 jn6509 https://padlet.com/jn6509/l60lmxl901kj1gh4/wish/1016910022 Migrant Mother photo has been compared  the image retains an air of mystery.The photograph was made while Ms. Lange was working for the federal Farm Security Administration. Her sense of commitment and her ability to distill very important and complex arguments into imagery that made those arguments seem absolutely impossible to ignore. It feels particularly timely.]]> 2020-12-14 17:19:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jn6509/l60lmxl901kj1gh4/wish/1016910022 jn6509 https://padlet.com/jn6509/l60lmxl901kj1gh4/wish/1016970936 The photographs arrived at the Curator Gallery in a box intended for curator Bill Shapiro, the former editor of Life magazine. When he saw the first photos, the curator wondered if he could look at the work of a Life photographer he didn't recognize.He was friends with Gordon Parks, a staff member of Life. He has also worked and performed alongside Walker Evans, Ansel Adams]]> 2020-12-14 17:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jn6509/l60lmxl901kj1gh4/wish/1016970936 jn6509 https://padlet.com/jn6509/l60lmxl901kj1gh4/wish/1068886640 The contrast between the strong diagonals of the balcony railing the handle of the duster pointing at the street below and the maid's vertical form leaning create a sense of movement and spontaneity while emphasizing the vastness of the view beneath her.


]]> 2021-01-08 21:43:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jn6509/l60lmxl901kj1gh4/wish/1068886640 jn6509 https://padlet.com/jn6509/l60lmxl901kj1gh4/wish/1068904563 Robert Capa made his seminal photograph of the Spanish Civil War without ever looking through his viewfinder.Robert Capa considered one of the best combat photographs ever made he was first to show battlefield death in action. The men would pop aboveground to charge and fire old rifles at a machine gun manned by troops loyal to Francisco Franco.]]> 2021-01-08 21:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jn6509/l60lmxl901kj1gh4/wish/1068904563 jn6509 https://padlet.com/jn6509/l60lmxl901kj1gh4/wish/1068964225 made many trips to Latin America to collect vintage photographs. Library in California put together a cross-section of Latin American photography for their study and research purposes.Throckmorton led to buy many vintage early nineteenth century Mexican and Peruvian photographs. At the same time he wanted to show young, contemporary photographers from Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and elsewhere in the region.

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