Friday, August 7, 2015
Photojournalist Whitney Curtis featured on Lens Blog; to appear on Civil Rights panel discussion
Photojournalist Whitney Curtis is featured in today's New York Times LENS:
"Whitney Curtis has covered Ferguson, Mo., for The New York Times since the day Michael Brown was shot and killed by a local police officer a year ago. Her photos of the protests that followed were published on the front page of The Times, and in many other publications around the world. And they were featured on Lens. For the last few weeks she has been photographing in Ferguson, looking for what has changed, and what has not, over the last year. She spoke with James Estrin earlier this week about her recent experiences there. The conversation has been edited."-- Full article here.
Monore Gallery of Photography is honored to present a special panel discussion on the role of photojournalism in the civil rights movement up to the present day. Freelance photojournalist Whitney Curtis, veteran LIFE magazine reporter Richard Stolley and interim director of the UNM Art Museum and dean of the College of Fine Arts Kymberly Pindar will share their experiences on Friday, September 18, starting promptly at 5:30. Seating is limited and will be on a first come basis. The discussion at Monroe Gallery will take place in the gallery during the final week of the exhibition "The Long Road: From Selma to Ferguson", which closes on September 27.
Many of the now iconic photographs of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States were once front-page news. The year 2015 brought renewed attention to many of these historic images not only from the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's march and the acclaimed film "Selma" but also as Baltimore, Charleston, and Ferguson, Missouri, and other American cities grapple with conflicts across the racial divide and produce new images that have confronted American society anew with questions of equality.
Richard Stolley already had a distinguished career in journalism when he joined Time magazine in 1953. As a reporter for Time and LIFE he covered numerous civil rights stories during the 1960's, of which he has said "There would not have been a civil rights movement without journalism. I think LIFE magazine was the most influential publication in changing American attitudes toward race because other news magazines would tell you what was happening and LIFE magazine would show you. LIFE photographers captured images of people spitting on black kids. Those people landed in a great big photo in the magazine, their faces distorted with hate, and spit coming out of their mouths. That image is going to change peoples' attitude in a way that words never could. That is exactly what LIFE magazine did week after week after week."
After graduating with a degree in photojournalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia, Whitney worked as a staff photojournalist at The Kansas City Star, northern Utah’s Standard-Examiner, and the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago. As an editorial photojournalist, Whitney’s work has been honored by The Associated Press, NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism, CPoY, and Women in Photojournalism. A resident of St. Louis, Whitney was not surprised by the outpouring of anger and emotion after a police officer killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. What she did not expect, however, was to be caught in the middle of it. She covered the 2014 protests extensively, often on assignment for The New York Times. Her image of image of Rashaad Davis from the Ferguson, Missouri protests was awarded 1st place Domestic News 2014 in NPPA's Best of Photojournalism Contest.
Kymberly Pindar is the interim director of the UNM Art Museum and dean of the UNM College of Fine Arts. Pindar is co-curator of the exhibition "Necessary Force: Art of the Police State" which will run from September 11 through December 12, 2015 at the UNM art museum. This exhibition interrogates law enforcement’s longstanding history of violence, and the systemic forces that continue to sanction and promote the violation of civil rights in this country. Dr. Pinder holds two master’s degree and a Ph.D. in art history from Yale University.
Related:
Review: The Long Road: From Selma To Ferguson
The Santa Fe New Mexican Pasatiempo: "The Long Road: From Selma to Ferguson couldn’t be more timely"
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Review: The Long Road: From Selma To Ferguson
THE Magazine
August, 2015
“There is no scientific or anthropological basis for race.”
–Maya Angelou
The is only one race: human. Being a bigot based on any
other concept of so-called “race” is similar to being a climate change denier.
Both are premised on what could be called belief-desires on the part of the
willfully ignorant, rather than on any sort of scientifically, empirically, or
reality based truth.
The Long Road: From Selma to Ferguson—an elegant
exhibition of fifty-five photographs documenting the faces and places of
America’s Civil Rights era alongside today’s rising BLACK LIVES MATTER movement
is a timely contribution to the local cultural scene by the Monroe Gallery. The
curation of the prints is thoughtful, and rich in response to the face-toface
with the ethnically biased police brutality that is confronting the nation.
Whitney Curtis’ image of a twenty-three-year-old African-American activist
backing away from three heavily armored St. Louis County cops with large
weapons drawn, makes an iconic, Leon Golublike, presentation of the point. A
1961 LIFE magazine image by Paul Schutzer of Freedom Riders on an interstate
bus escorted by National Guardsmen with rifles and bayonets carries the tension
of violent possibility held at bay, and echoes of the future found in the sign
of one protester on the 1965 Selma March preserved by legendary LIFE
photographer Steve Schapiro, that reads simply “Stop Police Killings.”
Relevant today, because the domestic terrorism of
African-Americans hasn’t ceased since they were forcibly enslaved and brought
in chains to this continent by Euro-American colonizers. A uniquely American
ethnic hate and systematized terrorism campaign has been carried out ever
since. For centuries now, law enforcement, judges, the Klu Klux Klan,
skinheads, and Nazi-wannabes have conducted a long brutal pogrom of slavery,
lynchings, scape-goating, church burnings, and institutionalized hatred against
African-Americans. This was tragically capped most recently by the nine murders
of Reverend Clementa C. Pinckney and eight parishioners at the African
Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina by a
twenty-one-year-old white supremacist espousing the belief-desires of a “black
and white races” ideology of “racial hierarchy” woven into a hate and anger
fueled action based on nothing but differences in skin tones. Children, when
your ideology drives you to kill, the first thing to kill is your ideology.
The point of color in painting or people is visual
pleasure and UV protection. The late, satirical Klan paintings of Phillip
Guston are more relevant than ever today. Women of the Klan Bow Their Heads in
Prayer, taken in South Carolina by Charles Moore and Segregationists, (again by
Steve Schapiro) from a 1964 gathering in St. Augustine, Florida have a similar
sense of the bleak stupidity of bigots on the wrong side of history. The
exhibition does a great job of branching out to include images connecting the
Selma March with anti-war, gay rights, labor, and feminist actions, making it
clear that the crux of the matter is not the distraction of an erroneous race
concept, but rather the still unattained dream of a reality based upon the
self-evident and scientific truth that all people are created equally and are
endowed with certain inalienable human rights and liberties that they must not
be denied. Images of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and his courageous entourage
figure prominently. Pinckney joins him, now. Photographer Bill Eppridge’s
moving image of activist James Chaney’s mother and younger brother at Chaney’s
funeral is a study of dignity in grief that hits a universal human note far
beyond any individual ancestry.
As King knew, no people holds a monopoly on evil or good.
There are no fine hierarchical lines to be drawn between races because there is
no place to draw them. Our homeland is the planet. We are all relatives in one
species, and our major differences across ethnicities are simply cultural.
Ancient tribalism is real, for sure, in fanatics’ belief-desire systems, but is
based on nothing actual. Worldwide, it is supported most evilly by cultural
ideologues and used in contemporary times, along with poverty and terrorism by
a multi-ethnic cabal of nationalists and other politicians in collusion with
banksters and financiers to divide and conquer various populations, and to
enforce strict differences in access to wealth, resources, and territory. Economic
differences (and growing disparity) are what they’re trying to hide.
It’s as ugly a situation as the eight shots to the back
at short range that an unarmed Walter Scott took as he fled a now-indicted
police officer, or the scenes of the crazed cracker cop in McKinney, Texas
tackling an unarmed fourteen-year-old African-American girl to the ground at a
pool party, and pointing his gun at her unarmed friends. Or Mike Brown’s body
lying dead on the ground in the middle of the street for hours, or Freddie
Gray’s severed spine. Nina Berman’s chilling Will I Be Next glimpses a
black-haired boy looking out of the doorway next to the title text on a placard
placed at the site of the Eric Garner strangulation in 2014. It’s a good
question, unfortunately. —Jon Carver Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Monroe Gallery in "Best of Santa Fe" 2015
Arts & Culture
Best of Santa Fe 2015
July 29, 2015
Best Blast from the Past
Monroe Gallery
112 Don Gaspar Ave.
992-0800
Charming and ethereal, powerful and thought provoking, no two visits to Monroe Gallery are the same. The product of owners Sid and Michelle Monroe’s love for great photojournalism of the Time/LIFE era keeps the inventory simultaneously pragmatic and poignant. “I just can’t think of anything more compelling or dynamic than chronicling our human history, our progress and our failures; our agonies of defeat and extraordinary moments of elevation,” Michelle says. Through Sept. 27, Monroe hosts The Long Road: From Selma to Ferguson, which began as a commemoration of the historic march. “We thought we had finished this show in 2013,” the gallerist continues. “Events started to unfold in Ferguson and Staten Island, in Cleveland with Tamir Rice, that presented such an extraordinary/terrible opportunity to make it a bigger conversation about how far we’ve come and what accomplishments have we let slip.” (EL)
photo by Enrique Limon
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Bob Gomel shares never-before-seen pictures of The Beatles
Houston photographer shares never-before-seen pictures of The Beatles
Via KHOU
All of The Beatle's photographs by Bob Gomel are available as fine art prints from Monroe Gallery of Photography.
Friday, July 3, 2015
" documenting the history of the movement from the 1960s to the present day through more than 50 compelling images"
Steve Schapiro: On the Road, Selma March, 1965
The Santa Fe New Mexican: Pasatiempo
"The Long Road: From Selma to Ferguson couldn’t be more timely"
The Albuquerque Journal: Venue North
"Exhibit lays out emotional images from civil rights movement, along with some from today that are strikingly similar."
Steve Schapiro: "Stop Police Killings", Selma March, 1965
The Long Road: from Selma To Ferguson July 3 - September 27, 2015
The Fourth of July
Martin Luther King Jr.: "You can get so busy in life that you forget holidays and other days, and it had slipped my mind altogether that today was the Fourth of July. And I said to him, "It is coincidental and quite significant, and I think when I get to Atlanta and go to my pulpit, I will try to preach a sermon in the spirit of the founding fathers of our nation and in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence." And so this morning I would like to use as a subject from which to preach: "The American Dream."
"The American Dream" Delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, on 4 July 1965
"It is found in those majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, words lifted to cosmic proportions: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by God, Creator, with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." This is a dream. It’s a great dream.
The first saying we notice in this dream is an amazing universalism. It doesn’t say "some men," it says "all men." It doesn’t say "all white men," it says "all men," which includes black men. It does not say "all Gentiles," it says "all men," which includes Jews. It doesn’t say "all Protestants," it says "all men," which includes Catholics. It doesn’t even say "all theists and believers," it says "all men," which includes humanists and agnostics"
Thursday, June 25, 2015
"how news coverage from Ferguson, Mo., ended up in one of the world's foremost art photography shows"
©Whitney Curtis
Via Full Frame
Global Images and the stories behind them
The Christian Science Monitor
, Staff Photographer
Boston — It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the range of photo exhibits – from new experimental artists to historic documentary works – at the Association of International Photography Art Dealers show in New York City. What is harder to find at AIPAD are modern works of photojournalism. This is part of the reason that scenes from the racial turmoil in Ferguson by photojournalist Whitney Curtis stood out. Her work was exhibited by the Monroe Gallery of Photography there. To get a better sense of how images from Ferguson moved from the pages of a newspaper to a framed exhibit at an international art photography show, I caught up with gallery owner, Sid Monroe. Here are some excerpts.
Whitney Curtis' photographs from Ferguson are featured in the exhibit "The Long Road: from Selma to Ferguson", Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe, July 3 - September 28, 2015
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Santa Fe Public Radio "At Noon" features Margaret Bourke-White exhibition
The exhibition Margaret Bourke-White: Pioneering Photographer was featured on "At Noon" June 15, 2015.
The work of trail-blazing photo-journalist Margaret Bourke-White is on display in downtown Santa Fe. The Monroe Gallery of Photography opened in Santa Fe in 2002, re-locating from Manhattan where it stood near the targeted World Trade Center towers on September 11th, 2001. The Monroe Gallery specializes in classic black & white photography with an emphasis on humanist and photojournalist imagery. Sid Monroe co-owns the gallery with his wife, Michelle. The Bourke-White exhibit at the Monroe Gallery runs through June 28th.
Listen here.
Listen here.
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Happy Birthday Margaret Bourke-White
by Oscar Graubner
Margaret
Bourke-White was born on June 14, 1904, in New York City, and graduated from
Cornell University in 1927. Choosing photography as a profession, she
immediately began her dramatic career by experimenting with industrial
subjects.
THE Magazine Review: Margaret Bourke-White: Pioneering Photographer
EDDIE ADAMS DAY 2015
via New Kensington Camera Club
EDDIE ADAMS.
- 1969 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Spot News Photography -
Show Opening Saturday, June 13th, 2015
10:00am at the Alle-Kiski Valley Heritage Museum in Tarentum, PA. The program will include a Marine Color Guard, special guests, a display of 21 large Eddie Adams prints from his Paris Exhibition, a display of photos by Barry Lavery, and the Inspired by Eddie Adams Show by members of the New Kensington Camera Club. Light refreshments will be provided for guests at the Museum.
A screening of the Eddie Adams documentary,
"An Unlikely Weapon" will take place at 1:00pm
A dinner at the Clarion Hotel in New Kensington will follow at 6:00pm with special guest speaker, Justin Merriman of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The photo exhibit will run throughout the month of June.
Proceeds from the show and dinner will be used toward the purchase of a Pennsylvania Historical Marker for Eddie Adams in his hometown of New Kensington, PA. Additional proceeds will be used toward the Eddie Adams, John Filo Scholarship fund and ƒ-Stop ALS/NKCC Cares.
Museum Admission is $5.00 (free to all paid members of NKCC & Alle-Kiski Valley Historical Society)
Dinner Tickets are on sale for $25.00
Tickets for the EAD2015 Dinner may be purchased in advance from NKCC or the Alle-Kiski Valley Heritage Museum. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door before the dinner.
Eddie Adams Day is an event held by the New Kensington Camera Club with the cooperation and sponsorship of the Alle-Kiski Valley Historical Society.
Visit nkcameraclub.org and akvhs.org for further information.
Visit nkcameraclub.org and akvhs.org for further information.
Special Guests
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Photographer
Justin Merriman
Justin Merriman (b. September 28, 1977), an award-winning photojournalist with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, has spent more than a decade traveling the world to cover politics, wars, natural disasters and civil unrest. His work has appeared in leading national publications and he has received multiple topjournalism awards.
After covering the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks – including the crash of United Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania – Merriman committed to chronicling the U.S. military and its war on terror. He has followed this story across the United States and into the conflict zones of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He also has covered life in Fidel Castro’s Cuba in 2002, India’s efforts to
eradicate polio from its population, the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Pope Benedicts XVI’s visit to Cuba in 2012, the 2013 conclave and election of
Pope Francis in Rome, the second anniversary of Egypt’s revolution and subsequent unrest, Russia’s invasion of Crimea and the international political crisis that unfolded in Ukraine in 2014, and most recently, traveled the U.S. border with Mexico documenting issues on immigration.
Merriman has worked at the Tribune- Review since 1999, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, American Profile Magazine, Time, USA Today, MSNBC, Sports
Illustrated and publications across the globe. He has been recognized with numerous regional, national and international awards from organizations including: the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Press Photographers Association, the Society for News Design, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, the Northern Short Course, the Southern Short Course, the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the Military Reporters and Editors Association, and the Western Pennsylvania Press Club. He was awarded Photographer of the Year by the News Photographer Association of Greater Pittsburgh four times.
In 2014, Merriman received awards for his work in Egypt including the top award in the International Photo Story category in the Northern Short Course contest and an award of excellence in the Pictures of the Year International Competition for News Picture Story.
Born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Merriman graduated from the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Writing. In 2009, the university awarded him its prestigious Alumnus of Distinction award.
Currently Merriman lives in Oakmont with his fiancé, Stephanie Strasburg, also a photojournalist with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Justin is a Barnstorm XV alumnus and worked for the Valley News Dispatch.
Photographic work of Eddie Adams can be viewed at the Monroe Gallery of Photography.
For more information visit http://eddieadamsday.com/
For more information visit http://eddieadamsday.com/
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