He grew up working at his father's photography store on one of black America's most important streets, Memphis' famed Beale Street, and later recalled believing the best job would be a few blocks away at the whites-only Peabody because of the access it would provide to a world of privilege and wealth that little Benny Hooks could only imagine. By the end of his life, Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks would be invited to the White House by President George W. Bush to receive the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and months later would visit with a black presidential candidate named Barack Obama on his condominium balcony with a majestic view of the Mississippi River.
For generations, nearly every child's first photographic experience involved a Brownie camera. Most of them had a one-time use only flash bulb that was used sparingly for only special photographs. Those who long to remember the early picture-taking days, while slipping their memory cards into their digital cameras, will want to take a trip to the University of California, Riverside's California Museum of Photography at the pedestrian mall on Main Street in downtown Riverside.
Living in the City of Trees, maybe I take trees for granted. That's the first thought that crossed my mind as I raced into Lisk Gallery to get a look at [Jerri Lisk]'s "50 Series #5." That was the last thing I did quickly. As my attention was captured by Lisk's newest installment, I took a deep breath-maybe breathing in all that good oxygen that trees give off-and then, all I could think was that I do take trees for granted. Lisk's background is working in realism, and it is only recently that she moved toward the freeing form of trees, leaving plenty of room in her pieces for viewer interpretation. Still, as I stood looking at her forest of walled trees, I again wondered, why trees? Maybe Lisk's dreamy woods are just her chosen subject, but maybe, after a second glance and a moment for...
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By AMY NIXON Few photographers can say that they've studied under Ansel Adams, arguably the master of black and white photography. But Waukesha artist William Lemke, whose studio is in Genesee Depot, can. Lemke's black and white photography is acclaimed throughout the United States, and his gallery is just down the road.
WASHINGTON, May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Compelling photography by 20th-century American poet Allen Ginsberg (1926- 1997) of himself and his fellow Beat generation writers--including William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, and Jack Kerouac- -are presented in Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg. The exhibition exploring all facets of Allen Ginsberg's photography through 79 black-and-white portraits is now on view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, through September 6, 2010. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100505/DC99669)
In a show called "The Garden Is Art/Art of the Garden," the gallery has organized prints, photographs, paintings and sculpture on Edenic themes. In another move that gives your nose an unexpected treat, [Webster] brought in real flowers and plants--thick mini-gardens of black-eyed susans, ferns, lilies, small shrubs, lavender, grasses, arbor vitae and miscellaneous posies and tendrils in arrangements designed by John Baliski. The flora happily complements the art and doesn't compete. Work in the large outer corridor, mostly photography, hints at nature's darker themes--decay and death. There's a black-and-white photo by Andrea Baldeck (Dandelion #1) that signals the end of a flower's life, and Joanne Watkeys' photograph Cradle highlights solitary moments in a plant's life cycle--like wh...
By AMY NIXON Few photographers can say that they've studied under Ansel Adams, arguably the master of black and white photography. But Waukesha artist William Lemke, whose studio is in Genesee Depot, can. Lemke's black and white photography is acclaimed throughout the United States, and his gallery is just down the road.
Even in the wake of Psycho, [Robert Aldrich]'s thriller was fairly grisly for a mainstream release. Indeed, it's still hard to believe that dismembered limbs are part of a film studded with a cast from Hollywood's golden age, which not only includes Warner Brothers stars Davis, de Havilland (in a wickedly sinister reversal of her role in Gone With the Wind) and Mary Astor, as well as Orson Welles' radio cohorts Joseph Cotten and Agnes Moorehead, who earned an Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category for her scene-stealing maid. Aldrich delivers this package with consummate bravado that still rates as juicy fun, with shadowy images from Joseph Biroc's lustrous black-and-white photography and composer Frank DeVol's memorable harpsichord theme.
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