The Social Struggles of Contemporary Black Art

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 22.03.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Unit Content - An Overview
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  7. Notes
  8. Bibliography

Struggle, Defiance, and Triumph: Black Photographers and Their Magic

Katherine Steiner

Published September 2022

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Notes

  1. “Hank Willis Thomas Biography,” last modified 2022. https://www.hankwillisthomas.com/BIO/1
  2. “Marking Time” Home - Marking Time. Last modified 2022. https://markingtimeart.com/
  3. “Zanele Muholi,” Zanele Muholi - Art21. Last modified 2022. https://art21.org/artist/zanele-muholi/
  4. “Interview in AERE VIEW,” interview by Theo Petroni, Aere View, August 2013. https://africanah.org/fabrice-monteiro/
  5. “The Big Legacy Of Charles 'Teenie' Harris, Photographer.” Story by Aemon Malone, last modified December 23rd, 2011, https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2011/12/23/144093524/the-big-legacy-of-charles-teenie-harris-photographer.
  6. “Charles “Teenie” Harris Collection.” Last modified 2022. https://collection.cmoa.org/?department=Teenie%20Harris%20Archive
  7. “Reflections in Black,” last modified 2013. https://debwillisphoto.com/artwork/1148751-Reflections-in-Black-A-History-of-Black-Photographers-1840-to-the-Present.html
  8. “A Mother and Son United by Love and Art.” Filmed November 2017. TEDTalks https://www.ted.com/talks/deb_willis_and_hank_willis_thomas_a_mother_and_son_united_by_love_and_art/transcript
  9. Gender, Memory, and History: In One Culture and Across Others, Journal of Archival Organization, 6:4, 288-310, DOI: 10.1080/15332740802563161
  10. “Through A Lens Darkly.” Filmed in 2014. http://1world1family.me/through-a-lens-darkly/
  11. “Zanele Muholi Frever Changed the Image of Queer South Africans.” Out Magazine, April 23rd, 2019. //www.out.com/art/2019/4/23/zanele-muholi-forever-changed-image-black-queer-south-africans
  12. “Zanele Muholi’s Faces and Phases.” Interview by Deborah Willis. Aperture Photography, April 21, 2015. https://aperture.org/editorial/magazine-zanele-muholis-faces-phases/
  13. “‘I’m scared. But this work needs to be shown.’ Zanele Muholi’s 365 Protest Photographs.” Interview by Ermine Saner. The Guardian, July 14, 2017. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/14/zanele-muholi-365-protest-photographs
  14. “‘I’m scared. But this work needs to be shown.’ Zanele Muholi’s 365 Protest Photographs.” Interview by Ermine Saner. The Guardian, July 14, 2017. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/14/zanele-muholi-365-protest-photographs
  15. “Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence.” Last modified May 1, 2015. https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/zanele_muholi/
  16. “Zanele Muholi, Visual Activist.” Filmed November 2013 at Human Rights Watch, Johannesburg, South Africa. Video, 11:23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aiufq04dp0
  17. “Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded.” Last modified July 14, 2010. https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/unbranded/
  18. “The Cotton Bowl and the Super Bowl.” Aperture Photography, November 8, 2016. https://aperture.org/editorial/cotton-bowl-super-bowl
  19. Posing in Prison: Family Photographs, Emotional Labor, and Carceral Intimacy. Public Culture 1 September 2015; 27 (3 (77)): 487–511. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2896195
  20. “Keith Calhoun and Shaundra McCormick.” Art in America, January 1, 2019. https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/keith-calhoun-chandra-mccormick-62610/
  21. “Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick Document the Scars of Slavery and Mass Incarceration.” BMoreArt, August 14, 2019. https://bmoreart.com/2019/08/keith-calhoun-and-chandra-mccormick-document-the-scars-of-slavery-and-mass-incarceration.html
  22. “Slavery, the Prison Industrial Complex: Photographs by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick.” Last modified May 29, 2018. https://fristartmuseum.org/exhibition/slavery-the-prison-industrial-complex-photographs-by-keith-calhoun-and-chandra-mccormick/
  23. “Curatorial Conversation: And I Must Scream Artist Fabrice Monteiro with Amanda H. Hellman.” Interview by Amanda H. Hellman. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, GA. Video, March 27, 2022. Video, 1:04:31. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm0bOO2owr8
  24. “FABRICE MONTEIRO: The Art Of Conversation Through Photography.” The Designer’s Studio, April 6, 2018. https://tdsblog.com/fabrice-monteiro/
  25. “The Big Legacy Of Charles 'Teenie' Harris, Photographer.” Story by Aemon Malone, last modified December 23rd, 2011, https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2011/12/23/144093524/the-big-legacy-of-charles-teenie-harris-photographer.
  26. “One Shot Teenie: A Retrospective of Charles Harris.” TIME Magazine, February 2 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20180918210415/http://time.com/3785780/charles-teenie-harris/
  27. “A Pittsburgh Photographer Captured Four Decades of Black Artists’ Lives Backstage.” Slate, April 6, 2018. https://slate.com/culture/2016/04/charles-teenie-harris-great-performance-photographs-from-pittsburgh.html
  28. “The Big Legacy Of Charles 'Teenie' Harris, Photographer.” Story by Aemon Malone, last modified December 23rd, 2011, https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2011/12/23/144093524/the-big-legacy-of-charles-teenie-harris-photographer.
  29. “One Shot Teenie: A Retrospective of Charles Harris.” TIME Magazine, February 2 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20180918210415/http://time.com/3785780/charles-teenie-harris/
  30. “A Pittsburgh Photographer Captured Four Decades of Black Artists’ Lives Backstage.” Slate, April 6, 2018. https://slate.com/culture/2016/04/charles-teenie-harris-great-performance-photographs-from-pittsburgh.html

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