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DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art History and Communication\nStudies welcom
 es Krista A. Thompson\, Associate\nProfessor\, Northwestern University\, a
 s the first speaker in our\nannual lecture series (follow this link for a 
 complete list of this year's speakers).\nTitle: 'Performing Visibility: St
 reet\nPhotography\, Black Youth and the Art of Being Seen'\nAbstract: Sinc
 e the mid-1980s photographers\nworking in a genre known as street photogra
 phy have erected\nmakeshift photography studios across black urban communi
 ties in the\nUnited States and the Caribbean. The studios are comprised of
  hand\nor spray-painted canvases against which photographers take Polaroid
 \nand digital pictures. Typically the backdrops portray either\nlandscapes
  of leisure or high-end consumer goods. In the genre\,\nintriguingly\, the
  process of posing publicly and being seen being\nphotographed has become 
 as important\, if not more so\, than the\ncreation of a physical image. Th
 is paper examines how and why the\nstreet photographs seem to occasion a t
 ransformation in the\nphysicality and temporality of photography. It also 
 frames the\nstreet photograph as inhabiting a space between the photograph
 ic\nand painted\, the still and moving image\, the real and artificial\,\n
 digital and analogue\, the material and ephemeral\, the hyper-visible\nand
  unvisible.\nBiography: Krista A. Thompson (Ph.D.\, 2002\,\nEmory Universi
 ty\; Associate Professor) teaches courses on the arts\nof the African dias
 pora\, critical race theory\, visual cultures of\ncolonialism and postcolo
 niality\, and global histories of\nphotography\, as well as courses on con
 temporary Caribbean and\nAfrican art. She is the author of An Eye for the 
 Tropics:\nTourism\, Photography\, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque\n(
 Duke University Press\, 2006)\, an examination of the colonial\nimaging of
  the Anglophone Caribbean in photographs and its effects\non landscape\, h
 istory\, race\, governmentality\, and contemporary art.\nThompson has publ
 ished in Art Bulletin\, American Art\, The Drama\nReview\, and Small Axe (
 where she serves on the\neditorial collective). She is co-editor\, with Hu
 ey Copeland and\nDarcy Grimaldo Grigsby\, of a special issue of\nRepresent
 ations on New World Slavery and the Visual\nImagination (Winter 2011). She
  is currently working on a book\ntitled The Visual Economy of Light in Afr
 ican Diasporic\nPractice on visual culture and black urban youth in the\nC
 aribbean and United States\, which is forthcoming from Duke\nUniversity Pr
 ess. The publication investigates the intersections\namong vernacular form
 s of photography\, performance\, and\ncontemporary art. Thompson has recei
 ved postdoctoral fellowships\nfrom the J. Paul Getty Foundation (2008)\, t
 he Institute for the\nHumanities\, University of Illinois\, Chicago (2004)
 \, and the David\nC. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora
  (2003). In\n2009\, Thompson received the David C. Driskell Prize from the
  High\nMuseum of Art in Atlanta\, Georgia\, which recognizes “original and
 \nimportant contributions to the field of African-American art or art\nhis
 tory.”\n
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LOCATION:Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue Sherbrooke 
 Ouest
SUMMARY:AHCS Speaker Series: Krista A. Thompson 'Performing Visibility: Str
 eet Photography\, Black Youth and the Art of Being Seen'
URL:/channels/event/ahcs-speaker-series-krista-thompso
 n-performing-visibility-street-photography-black-youth-and-art-bei-165692
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