OZIER MUHAMMAD, HARLEM
Chicago-born, Muhammad is the grandson of Nation of Islam Founder Elijah Muhammad. Coming of age in that famous family of Black Muslim leaders — itself spotlighted in an array of news, commentary and pictures — he picked up jazz and a Yashica film camera around the same time…
TIFFANY J. SUTTON, BLACK BODY RADIATION
Photographer Tiffany Sutton’s body of work is rooted in narrative portraiture, family vernacular, and candid documentary photography. Her style developed out of an interest in cinematography. Her still images were mostly a self-biography that grew into something more…
SARAH LUCAS, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH FRIED EGGS, 1996
Sarah Lucas’s portrayals of the body have a strong sense of humour and they challenge sexual stereotypes and conventional morals. In Self Portrait with Fried Eggs, Sarah Lucas looks back at the viewer with a confrontational stare...
TARRAH KRAJNAK, MASTER RITUALS II: WESTON'S NUDES, 2020
Deconstructing Edward Weston’s Nudes in the form of self-portraits, the artist Tarrah Krajnak inserts herself as both author and subject into Weston’s original work…
JOY GREGORY, OBJECTS OF BEAUTY, 1992 – 1995
Who can deny the power of a pair of hairdresser’s scissors, or the bewitching effect of a set of dark false eyelashes? These images raise questions about women’s pursuit of changing ideals of beauty and the meanings we attach to the objects themselves…
MARIA KHEIRKHAH, I THINK THEREFORE I QUESTION, 2002-3
For me self-representation is always about self-reflection, self-agency. It is also a signal, a reminder of erasure and misrepresentation. Speaking back to this erasure becomes about claiming one's own history, claiming one's past, present and future self…
FRANCESCA WOODMAN, SELECTED WORKS
STEPH FOSTER, THE EYES BENEATH THE OAK,
One of the most pernicious aspects of our prison system is how it renders people invisible and inaudible so that their stories are hidden from our collective understanding. This allows the perpetuation of exploitative and abusive systems that disproportionately affect people of color, as their experiences are systematically hidden from view…
SALLY MANN, AT TWELVE, PORTRAITS OF YOUNG WOMEN, 1988
At Twelve is Sally Mann’s revealing, collective portrait of twelve-year-old girls on the verge of adulthood. To be young and female in America is a time of tremendous excitement and social possibilities; it is a trying time as well, caught between childhood and adulthood, when the difference is not entirely understood…
RAYMOND THOMPSON JR, THE TRAUMA OF WHITE LIGHT
The trauma of white light features appropriated photographs created by the Farm Security Administration photographers in the 1930s. These images are reprinted on living tobacco leaves using the chlorophyll printing technique…
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE, LEATHER PICTURES
He treated a man clad in leather or latex with the same grace that he captured a flower: like a modern Midas with a camera, everything he touched turned to black-and-white beauty…
MARK MCKNIGHT, IN THIS TEMPORARILY PREVAILING LANDSCAPE, 2018 - PRESENT
Landscapes and queer bodies appear in flux as McKnight blurs a multitude of formal and figurative boundaries: earth and flesh, self and subject, artist and documentarian…
COLLIER SCHORR, WRESTLERS
I like devastation. I like exhaustion. I really like seeing someone that I know can’t barely get up…
ANNE NOGGLE, WORLD WAR II WOMEN PILOTS
With black and white photography, Anne Noggle (1922–2005) confronts themes of gender equality and aging through portraits of World War II women pilots in the United States and the Soviet Union…
RAMELL ROSS, SOUTH COUNTY, AL (A HALE COUNTY), 2012
Having lived, worked, and photographed in Hale County, Alabama, for almost ten years, RaMell Ross has produced a series of quietly powerful photographs—South County, AL (a Hale County)—that meditate on the myths of blackness in the American South…
LORRAINE O’GRADY, BODY IS THE GROUND OF MY EXPERIENCE
BodyGround, shorthand for Body Is the Ground of My Experience, refers to the photomontages produced by O’Grady for her first one-person exhibit, at INTAR Gallery, NYC, Jan 21–Feb 22, 1991…
VALIE EXPORT, GENITAL PANIC
Genitalpanik (Genital Panic) is a series of photographs and posters that emerged from an action VALIE EXPORT performed in Munich in 1968…
JOIRI MINAYA, THE CLOAKING SERIES
The Cloaking series challenges the presence of colonial statues in urban spaces, using colorful spandex fabric to conceal and simultaneously bring attention to these monuments, questioning which narratives get memorialized and which are omitted…
SABELO MLANGENI, THE ROYAL HOUSE OF ALLURE
Like many cities in the world Lagos is a city of extremes. Individuals who fit into the mould of heteronormativity (especially those protected by wealth) are considered worthy of protection and celebration while others (feminised, queer and poor bodies) are rendered invisible and unworthy…
LINDA TROELLER, TB-AIDS DIARY
The careful assemblage of personal images and texts that make up Linda Troeller's TB-AIDS Diary confronts the social stigma of disease in a manner that is at once gentle and uncompromising…