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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Bibliography

Amirkhani, Jordan. “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

Brooklyn Museum. “Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded.” Last modified July 14, 2010. https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/unbranded/

Brooklyn Museum. “Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence.” Last modified May 1, 2015. https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/zanele_muholi/

Calhoun, Keith. Louisiana Medley: Imprint, Nashville, TN, 2018.

Carnegie Museum of Art Collection “Charles “Teenie” Harris Collection.” Last modified 2022. https://collection.cmoa.org/?department=Teenie%20Harris%20Archive

Crouch, Stanley. One Shot Harris: The Photographs of Charles “Teenie” Harris: Imprint, New York, 2002.

Fleetwood, Nicole. “Marking Time” Home - Marking Time. Last modified 2022.

https://markingtimeart.com/

Fleetwood, Nicole. “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

Frist Art Museum. “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/

Harris, Thomas Allen, “Through A Lens Darkly.” Filmed in 2014. http://1world1family.me/through-a-lens-darkly/

Kimani, Natalie. “FABRICE MONTEIRO: The Art Of Conversation Through Photography.” The Designer’s Studio, April 6, 2018. https://tdsblog.com/fabrice-monteiro/

Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth. Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal…: Imprint: New York, 2019

Monteiro, Fabrice, “Interview in  AERE VIEW,” interview by Theo Petroni, Aere View, August 2013.

https://africanah.org/fabrice-monteiro/"

Monteiro, Fabrice. “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

Muholi, Zanele “‘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

Muholi, Zanele. “Zanele Muholi, Visual Activist.” Filmed November 2013 at Human Rights Watch, Johannesburg, South Africa. Video, 11:23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aiufq04dp0

Muholi, Zanele. “Zanele Muholi,” Zanele Muholi - Art21. Last modified 2022. https://art21.org/artist/zanele-muholi/

Muholi, Zanele. “Zanele Muholi’s Faces and Phases.” Interview by Deborah Willis. Aperture Photography, April 21, 2015. https://aperture.org/editorial/magazine-zanele-muholis-faces-phases/

NPR “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.

Pelton, Eli Wilson. “The Cotton Bowl and the Super Bowl.” Aperture Photography, November 8, 2016. https://aperture.org/editorial/cotton-bowl-super-bowl

“POOL, A Social History of Segregation.” Habitique, Last modified March 22, 2022. https://poolphl.com

Rosenberg, David. “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

Smithsonian Institute. “Photographic print of Duke Ellington, Alfredo Gustar, and Billy Strayhorn.” Accessed July 15, 2022. https://www.si.edu/object/photographic-print-duke-ellington-alfredo-gustar-and-billy-strayhorn:nmaahc_2014.302.45

Susan Tucker & Svanhildur Bogadóttir (2008) Gender, Memory, and History: In One Culture and Across Others, Journal of Archival Organization, 6:4, 288-310, DOI: 10.1080/15332740802563161

Thomas, Hank Willis & Willis, Deborah. “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

Thomas, Hank Willis. “Hank Willis Thomas Biography,”last modified 2022. https://www.hankwillisthomas.com/BIO/1

Tobias, Marie. “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/

Wilkerson, Emily. “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/

Willis, D. “Reflections in Black,” last modified 2013. https://debwillisphoto.com/artwork/1148751-Reflections-in-Black-A-History-of-Black-Photographers-1840-to-the-Present.html

Willis, Raquel “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

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