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David Schonauer Friday April 7, 2023
Kwame Brathwaite, a photographer and activist whose stylish images forced many to see Black beauty anew, inspiring generations of artists who came after him, died on April at age 85. While
Brathwaite's work has only recently attained mainstream recognition in the form of museum retrospectives and monographs, his photography has acted for many decades as a guiding force to many. It has
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CNN Thursday April 6, 2023
Some VIP Twitter users woke up on Saturday expecting to have lost their coveted blue verification check marks in a previously announced purge by Elon Musk. Instead, notes CNN, Twitter appeared to target a single account from a major publication that Musk dislikes and changed the language on its site in a way that obscures why users are verified. The main account of The New York Times, which had previously said it would not pay for verification, lost its blue mark. The moves are just the latest example of Twitter creating confusion and whiplash for users over feature change, adds CNN.
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GOST Thursday April 6, 2023
In her book Atlantic Cowboy, Norwegian photographer Andrea Gjestvang creates a portrait of the people and unforgiving landscapes of the Faroe Islands, a remote archipelago between Iceland and Norway, notes CNN. Gjestvang documents the impact of that a shortage of women has on the men in territory—the Atlantic cowboys of the title—and the geographical and social periphery they inhabit, adds publisher Gost. “One man I interviewed told me that the Faroe Islands is the perfect playground for men,” Gjestvang says.
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ARTnews Thursday April 6, 2023
Over two decades, Anna Walker Skillman has built Jackson Fine Art into a prominent hub for contemporary and modern photography. The Atlanta-based gallery recently expanded and relocated, taking over a custom-built space in Atlanta's ritzy Buckhead district. Skillman joined Jackson Fine Art in 1998 as its director and in 2003 purchased the gallery from its founder, Jane Jackson, when Jackson moved on to curate Elton John’s still-nascent photographic collection. Art News talks with Skillman about her fondness for images of confident women.
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