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Additional authors

1. McCormick, Chandra

Description

1. 135 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 x 29 cm

Summary

1. 'Louisiana Medley' celebrates the 30-year collaboration of photographers Keith Calhoun (born 1955) and Chandra McCormick (born 1957). Partners in life and work, the two have worked together to document African American life in and around their native New Orleans. Calhoun and McCormick's photographs show the artists in tune with each other as well as the rich complexity of Louisiana identity, from the local street culture and parades of their city to life in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, locally known as 'Angola.' Their intimate understanding of labor practices and prison culture has informed their activism, around Angola and outside its walls. The photographers' activism--and their appreciation for their city's stubborn, fragile beauty--has only grown since Hurricane Katrina. 'Louisiana Medley' surveys Calhoun and McCormick's work over the course of three decades, revealing how the two photographers have used their cameras as tools for social engagement. Exhibition: Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, USA (23.02.-28.05.2018).

Subject

1. African Americans
2. Street photography
3. Documentary photography
4. Hurricane Katrina (2005)
5. 2005
6. Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Pictorial works
7. Manners and customs
8. African American prisoners > Louisiana > New Orleans > Pictorial works
9. Street photography > Louisiana > New Orleans
10. New Orleans (La.) > Social conditions > Pictorial works
11. Louisiana State Penitentiary
12. Louisiana > New Orleans
13. New Orleans (La.) > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
14. Pictorial works
15. Documentary photography > Louisiana > New Orleans
16. Louisiana State Penitentiary Pictorial works
17. African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > Pictorial works
18. Social conditions

Genre/Form

1. Pictorial works.

Call number

1. Sc+ F 18-285

Note

1. "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Slavery, the Prison Industrial Complex: Photographs by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick, which was organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Author

1. Calhoun, Keith, photographer.

Title

1. Louisiana medley / photographs by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick.

Publisher

1. Nashville, TN : Frist Center for the Visual Arts, 2018.

Copyright date

1. ©2018

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological term

1. 2005

Added author

1. McCormick, Chandra, photographer.

LCCN

1. 2017056604

ISBN

1. 9780998681771 hardcover ; alkaline paper
2. 0998681776 hardcover ; alkaline paper

Research call number

1. Sc+ F 18-285