Forum on Contemporary Photography
Tina M. Campt’s new book A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See, which Campt worked on while a Fellow at the Institute, was published recently by MIT Press.
It will be the focus of a special Forum on Contemporary Photography, Black Gazes, taking place online on October 20th at 1:30 p.m. (Eastern).
The forum will include such speakers, in addition to Tina M. Campt (Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University), as Theaster Gates, artist, and Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago; Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem; Saidiya V Hartman, University Professor, Columbia University; Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, filmmaker, and Assistant Professor in Film and Television production, Queens College, CUNY; Arthur Jafa, artist, filmmaker and cinematographer; Simone Leigh, artist; Okwui Okpokwasili, writer, performer, and choreographer; Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Associate Curator, Department of Photography, MoMA; Bradford Young, cinematographer.