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O Zhang, We are all the Future of the Earth, 2008, inkjet print, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of the Artist.
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A new exhibition featuring a wide array of lens-based works by local and international artists is opening this weekend at Vancouver Art Gallery.
Old photos of Minnesota sugar beet harvest capture the Great Depression and the American dream
“Roots of the Red River Valley: Through the Lens of Russell Lee,” now on display in Moorhead, uses images of the late photographer to look at the 1937 sugar beet harvest in Polk County and highlight the importance of migrant workers in the process. Written By: John Lamb | ×
Migrant workers in the sugarbeet fields on a Polk County, Minn., farm. Photo by Russell Lee / Courtesy of the Library of Congress / Special to The Forum
MOORHEAD The newest show at the Historical & Cultural Society of Clay County digs deep into the region’s agricultural and ancestral histories.
Adger Cowans,
Footsteps, 1960. (Courtesy of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Aldine S. Hartman Endowment Fund / The Whitney Museum of American Art)
When the Kamoinge Workshop began in 1963, taking its name from a Kikuyu word meaning “a group of people acting together,” a few Black photographers had already gained some prominence. Gordon Parks was probably chief among them. After starting as a portraitist in Chicago, he had gone on to work during the war years with the renowned photography program of the Farm Security Administration, best known for sending the likes of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange to document everyday rural life during the Depression; in postwar Harlem he went to work for
“Roots of the Red River Valley: Through the Lens of Russell Lee,” now on display in Moorhead, uses images of the late photographer to look at the 1937 sugar beet harvest in Polk County and highlight the importance of migrant workers in the process.
Curran Hatleberg, Lost Coast (8), 2014
The International Center for Photography (ICP) is celebrating their one year anniversary in their new home on Essex Street with a new exhibition of “post-documentary” style photos from around the world. ICP was forced to shut it’s doors last March, due to the pandemic, and offered virtual programming only for six months. They re-opened in hybrid form this past October.
Gregory Halpern, Untitled, 2016
The new exhibit, titled,
But Still, It Turns: Recent Photography from the World, opens on February 4, 2012 and is curated by photographer Paul Graham. It brings together nine photographers and their recent photo projects. They write, “Extending the tradition of Robert Frank, Walker Evans, Gordon Parks, and Diane Arbus, this work fits a notion of “photography from the world” photography that resists both narrative arcs and the drama of photojournalism or staged photography, grappling instead with the world as it is, in all its