LOUIS DRAPER 1935 - 2002 : RETROSPECTIVE part 2

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Louis Draper

January 10 - February 20 2014
Candela Books + Gallery

214 West Broad Street

Richmond VA 23220

In 1958, Draper moved from his hometown, Richmond, Virginia to Harlem to study photography. In those early years he photographed all over the streets of New York with a compassionate and discerning eye for the social conditions of the time, as well as quietly observing the nuances of mid-century city life.

Boy playing ball

Kool, man with hat

Graffiti silhouette

Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi, 1971

Garment worker

Boy with paint splatter

Draper was a founding member of the seminal black photographers’ collective originally named the Kamoinge Workshop, formed in 1963, which included Roy DeCarava as its first director. Other notable members of Kamoinge over the years: Ray Francis, Herb Randall, Al Fennar, Jimmie Mannas, Shawn Walker, Tony Barboza and Beuford Smith. Kamoinge and its photographers were featured in an important 1966 Camera Magazine issue, focused on Harlem and the increasing urgency of race relations in the United States at that time.

For further information please visit:

http://thelouisdraperproject.wordpress.com/

https://candelabooks.com/gallery/

This exhibition is taking part in Race, Place and Identity, a collaboration of Richmond organizations highlighting Civil Rights and Social Justice.

LOUIS DRAPER 1935 - 2002 : RETROSPECTIVE

Go + See
Louis Draper
January 10 - February 20 2014
Candela Books + Gallery
214 West Broad Street

Richmond, VA 23220

" Somebody, somebody Lord !

   Somebody, somebody Can anybody find me somebody to love? " Queen

This statement might seem strange to people of European decent but until very recently seeing images of non europeans in the American main stream was difficult at best and at the worst shameful.

We have to thank the thousands of minority photographers who had faith in their people,even if they could not move to center stage in the photographic world.

When I was growing up as a kid, I was starving to see people like me in magazines and books, television and movies. My aunt recently reminded me  that my grandmother had the only television for blocks in the rural area I grew up in. I love looking at tv, I love magazines, but people who look like me never look out of that world to be a part of mine. 

This is the reason I am quoting Queen's Somebody to Love,  I wanted to see someone in that light like me but I digress. I am happy that Gordon Settinius of Candela Books + Gallery in Richmond Virginia will host the first retrospective exhibition of the mid-century African-American photographer, Louis Draper (1935-2002). Retrospective will showcase over 40 photographs spanning Draper’s career, from the late 1950s to 1990s. Primarily a street photographer, Draper’s archive has revealed an incredible range of artistic skill, including portraiture and abstraction, which will all be highlighted in the exhibition.

[Young Man in Beret

John Henry, 1960's 

Fannie Lou Hamer [portrait], Mississippi, 1971

Girl and Cuba (Philadelphia), 1968

Girl with Butterfly Shirt

Women, Flower Headscarf 

Women with Earring                   

For further information please visit:

http://thelouisdraperproject.wordpress.com/

https://candelabooks.com/gallery/

This exhibition is taking part in Race, Place and Identity, a collaboration of Richmond organizations highlighting Civil Rights and Social Justice.

ERIK HAGEN 2 : NOIR TO COLOR

NOIR                             

ORANGE CHAIR

STRATOSPHERE

DEAD  DIRTY  DREAMY

TERMINAL

OHIO AT DUSK

WRECK

COLOR

Syllabification: col·or

Pronunciation: /ˈkələr 

  

/

the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way the object reflects or emits light:

ERIK HAGEN : TAXI HAIKU

The photographs of Erik Hagen can be seen as a stills from a moving picture that leave your mind space to create a plot : or words detached from a poem and left scattered as clues.

ABBOT KINNEY

CHEVRON

DRIVER

ROSECRANS

DOWNTOWN

UNTITLED

BLACK,BLOND,DAME,DARK,DRIVE.EDGE

ENNUI,EXCITE,LONE,SINISTER,STREET,TAXI,NOIR mrbennette

http://www.balladofathinman.com

CHARLOTTE WATTS : I Am Alone, We Are One

CHARLOTTE WATTS

SACRED TEXT

House Made of Dawn-Summer Shelter Canyon de Chelly

Lunch On The Terrace-Along Chicken Coop Creek

Recovery, Burn Dungeness Wildlife Refuge

The Gratefulness of Robins

Coming Fall--Little Birds and Birch Tree

Stones and Sand

I find that sometimes it is best to be alone to find that which is spiritual to let a moment enter into your life that you become aware yet mystery dose not change. I am thinking Shintoism here you need quiet to feel sacred spaces to marvel at the mathematics of this small piece of the universe. Each step until the last             

These quiet delicate images by Charlotte Watts lead me into and outside to see and reflect 

http://www.charlottewatts.com

BEN MARCIN : Postscript

Postscript

BEN MARCIN

Last House Standing And ( Other Stories)

Ben went back.Time moved forward. 

Diptych 2 Baltimore

Diptych 1 Baltimore

BEN MARCIN : Portraits of a Different Kind

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BEN MARCIN
Last House Standing And ( Other Stories)
December 18 - January 25 2014
C. GRIMALDIS GALLERY
523 N. Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21201
410 539 1080

Red Brick Rowhouse West Baltimore

Baltimore Maryland

Blue Solo House West Baltimore

Rowhouse Philly

Rowhouse Philly

I saw these photographs last summer when they were submitted to Musing. I see the silent indicators of not only place and the character of these buildings  but what is revealed about cities and change in America . 

" My interest in these solitary buildings is not only in their ghostly beauty but in their odd, almost defiant, placement in the urban landscape. Often three stories high, they were clearly not designed to stand alone like this. Many details that might not be noticed in a homogenous row of twenty attached row houses become apparent when everything else has been torn down. And then there's the lingering question of why a single row house was allowed to remain upright. Still retaining traces of its former glory, the last house standing is often still occupied. " Ben Marcin.

http://benmarcinphotos.com