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Posts by NicoleAcheampong

Clifford Prince King’s Intimate Photographs of Black Queer Men

By NicoleAcheampong | June 18, 2020 | Comments Off on Clifford Prince King’s Intimate Photographs of Black Queer Men
Clifford Prince King, Untitled (Grapes), 2017

Creating tender scenes with friends and lovers, the LA-based artist offers a stirring vision of everyday ritual.

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A Visual Record of Black Lives, Four Decades After Emancipation

By NicoleAcheampong | April 24, 2020 | Comments Off on A Visual Record of Black Lives, Four Decades After Emancipation

A new book revisits W.E.B. Du Bois’s landmark 1900 exhibition on Black American identity.

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The Photographer’s Playlist

By NicoleAcheampong | April 21, 2020 | Comments Off on The Photographer’s Playlist

Nan Goldin, Alec Soth, Jamel Shabazz, and others share the music that comforts, inspires, or makes them move.

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The Terror and Pleasure of Staying at Home

By NicoleAcheampong | March 25, 2020 | Comments Off on The Terror and Pleasure of Staying at Home

How did an early 1990s exhibition anticipate the transformation of family life in the U.S.?

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Picturing Utopia, From Shakers to Hippie Communes

By NicoleAcheampong | February 6, 2020 | Comments Off on Picturing Utopia, From Shakers to Hippie Communes

Chris Jennings traces a visual record of American longing and discontent.

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Dreamlike Photographs of Life Among the Trees

By NicoleAcheampong | February 6, 2020 | Comments Off on Dreamlike Photographs of Life Among the Trees

Clare Richardson and David Spero document communities embedded in nature—and search for the promised land.

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How John Baldessari Threw Three Balls in a Straight Line

By NicoleAcheampong | January 6, 2020 | Comments Off on How John Baldessari Threw Three Balls in a Straight Line

The making of a now-famous series of photographs.

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Sweat and Spirit on the British Dance Floor

By NicoleAcheampong | January 6, 2020 | Comments Off on Sweat and Spirit on the British Dance Floor

In Dave Swindells’s photographs, nightclubs become spaces for community and belonging.

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Revisiting African Portraiture, Through the Female Gaze

By NicoleAcheampong | December 18, 2019 | Comments Off on Revisiting African Portraiture, Through the Female Gaze

Sandrine Colard and Laurence Butet-Roch examine the history of how African women have been pictured, and in turn, how they look back at the viewer.

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How a No-Frills Zine Transformed a British Town

By NicoleAcheampong | December 18, 2019 | Comments Off on How a No-Frills Zine Transformed a British Town

For ten years, Adam Murray and Robert Parkinson have celebrated the hyperlocal through their expansive photo project.

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