We are excited to premiere our Short Shot Series from the Through A Lens Darkly (TALD), a documentary about how African American photographers have used the camera for social change.
These videos provide insight into the prominent black photographers featured in the film.
Our first video featured Lorna Simpson, an artist and photographer who made her name in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal.
I was never ultimately confident that the work I did would be valid.
I didn’t have the expectation about what we think of today as success…
I kind of stuck to “this is the work that I want to make for me.”
Lorna Simpson first became well-known in the mid-1980s for her large-scale photograph-and-text works that confront and challenge narrow, conventional views of gender, identity, culture, history and memory.
With the African-American woman as a visual point of departure, Simpson uses the figure to examine the ways in which gender and culture shape the interactions, relationships and experiences of our lives in contemporary multi-racial America.
Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Miami Art Museum; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
She has participated in such important international exhibitions as the Hugo Boss Prize at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany.
Of late, she had a solo exhibition at Salon94, New York, in 2008 and a solo exhibition at Obadia Galerie, Paris, in 2009. In 2010, she is the recipient of the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award in Art.
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