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Chuck Siler Response to Katrina
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"New Orleans: Second Line -- Walking
in Water" Artwork by Charles Siler,
N'awlins Survivor |
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Call
for Artists and Photographers
from
New Orleans to Put Together a Show
By
Chuck Siler
Museum
Curator Rudy,
I'm not in a place where long statements and
diatribes against the existing whatever work for me. I was
so busy "making do" for the first week or so that I
couldn't produce. I went to Baton Rouge searching for a place to
settle my group of evacuees and had a mixed experience which has
me considering options other than continuing to deal with
"the job".
I did have a great experience because of an
invitation to saxophonist Wes Anderson's house on the Sunday
evening before I left to return to Dallas (our evacuation
destination). It was all about the music that happened and
the feeling that it left me with started the pen to moving
again. The battery was recharged and here are some of the
results.
I'm putting out a call for the artists and
photographers from New Orleans to contact me because there are
folk interested in doing shows and the like.
I know a lot of people lost work but this might serve as
incentive for them to pick up pen, brush, camera, whatever and
start making their statements.
I'm glad you kept the book list on ChickenBones
because I've got a library to reconstruct (the house got 8 feet
of water).
Another haiku:
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I will be
back on track,
adversity aside...
my ass is
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Chuck Siler alama13@yahoo.com
posted 22 September 2005
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A thousand voices / agonizing in
deep / water with no / relief in sight --
"Exodus" Artwork by Charles Siler, N'awlins
Survivor |
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Poem: Fireman's
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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Age of Silver: Encounters with Great Photographers
By John Loengard
Age of Silver is iconic American photographer John Loengard’s ode to the art form to which he dedicated his life. Loengard, a longtime staff photographer and editor for LIFE magazine and other publications, spent years documenting modern life for the benefit of the American public. Over the years he trained his camera on dignitaries, artists, athletes, intellectuals, blue and whitecollar workers, urban and natural landscapes, manmade objects, and people of all types engaged in the act of living. In
Age of Silver, Loengard gathers his portraits of some of the most important photographers of the last half-century, including Annie Leibovitz, Ansel Adams, Man Ray, Richard Avedon, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and many, many others. Loengard caught them at home and in the studio; posed portraits and candid shots of the artists at work and at rest. Complimenting these revealing, expertly composed portraits are elegant photographs of the artists holding their favorite or most revered negatives. This extra dimension to the project offers an inside peek at the artistic process and is a stark reminder of the physicality of the photographic practice at a time before the current wave of digital dominance. There is no more honest or faithful reproduction of life existent in the world of image making than original, untouched silver negatives. Far from an attempt to put forth a singular definition of modern photographic practice, this beautifully printed, duotone monograph instead presents evidence of the unique vision and extremely personal style of every artist pictured. Annie Leibovitz is quoted in her caption as once saying, “I am always perplexed when people say that a photograph has captured someone. A photograph is just a piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.” —PowerhouseBooks |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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Ancient African Nations
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The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan
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The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
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Only a Pawn in Their Game
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks America for
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George Jackson /
Hurricane Carter
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The Journal of Negro History issues at Project Gutenberg
The
Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
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January 1, 1804 -- The Founding of
Haiti
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