How 'Trigger Warning with Killer Mike' Is Breaking Stereotypes Through Playful Experimentation
A rap performance in an assisted living facility, where your youngest audience member is 65 years old. A friendly competition between the Crips and the Bloods, two of Atlanta's best-known gangs. The establishment of a new country called "New Africa." The adoption of a new religion based on a Black Messiah and a Book of Sleep.
Gap Inc. Delivers on the Top Back-to-School Trends of 2022 | Gap Inc.
by Gap Inc. Back-to-school is officially here, one of the most important seasons for retailers. The National Retail Federation expects American back-to-school spending to match 2021's record high of $37 billion, with customers searching for options that are wallet-happy, planet-friendly, and trendy.
Women in the arts, past, present and future: 50 years of Woodruff Arts Center - SaportaReport
By Guest Columnist LOLI LUCACIU, marketing and communications manager at The Woodruff Arts Center You can credit women for getting it all started. Back in 1905, a small group of women founded the Atlanta Arts Association, a forerunner organization that later became the Woodruff Arts Center. Then, in 1926, Mrs.
The Photographic Portrait: Artistic Expression, Captured Humanity, Arrested Experience
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In "The Photographic Portrait: Artistic Expression, Captured Humanity, Arrested Experience," I examine portrait photography as placed at the nexus of art theory, practice, and bodily presence in art. My thesis discusses the roles that the photographic portrait has played in the history of how we conceive of aesthetics, selfhood, and representation in photography and in art more broadly. Engaging especially with the theoretical work of Walter Benjamin and Susan Sontag, I offer new readings of "street" photography by Vivian Meier, as well as novel interpretation of well-known photographic portraits by Dorothea Lange, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and others. In these discussions, I will focus not only on the details of artworks, but I will also attempt to provide a refreshing take on familiar works and pursue new lines of thinking about their form and their significance. I further contend that the human face is a medium for communication, for expression and for the visualization of a sliver of reality. The paper will look at how two important media platforms - photojournalism and artistic photography - employ the photographic portrait to convey meaning.