Egon ramms biography of alberta
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EMPIRE LINES
In this special episode, EMPIRE LINES returns to Ingrid Pollard’s 2022 exhibition, Carbon Slowly Turning, the first major survey of her career photographing Black experiences beyond the city and urban environments, in the English countryside. It marks the artist’s participation in Invasion Ecology, a season of contemporary nation art across South West England in summer 2024, questioning what we mean by ‘native’ and what it means to belong.
Since the 1980s, artist Ingrid Pollard has explored how Black and British identities are socially constructed, often through historical representations of the rural landscape. Born in Georgetown, Guyana, Ingrid draws on English and Caribbean photographic archives, with works crossing the borders of printmaking, sculpture, audio, and film installations. Their practice confronts complex colonial histories, and their legacies in our contemporary lived experiences, especially concerning race, sexuality, and identity.
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Kenn Duncan photograph archive
circa 1960-1986 DConsidered by many to be one of the foremost dance photographers of the late twentieth century, Kenneth Duncan, Jr. was born on September 22, 1928 in New Jersey. Duncan came by both photography and dancing in an indirect way. His initial interest in movement came about through his study of ballet which he undertook in order to perfect his form as a roller-skating champion. Duncan achieved the highest honors in the sport, but eventually he abandoned skating for a career as a dancer, which gained him much recognition. Sometime in the 1960s, however, he injured his leg badly enough that he had to abandon his career as a dancer. He became an assistant to a fashion photographer and learned how to use a camera, eventually taking over the studio in the late 1960s, moving into dance photography.
Duncan sought to capture the sense of movement in his photography while revealing, according to one critic, an "outer beauty and inner es
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