Conversation with a Curator: Really! This is (So) Not a Selfie Thursday, October 25th, 7-8 pm at the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg. FREE with Museum admission, $10 on Thursdays after 5 pm. The current exhibition This is Not a Selfie is drawn from a single collection, the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection at the Los [...]
Read MoreMy Camera My Self(ie) by Sabrina Hughes In my History of Photography course, there is a class meeting on the syllabus dedicated to discussing selfies. I’m sure my undergraduate students roll their eyes when they see this and wait for me to deliver a punchline that never arrives. Discussing selfies, even uttering [...]
Read MoreDormant by Caitlin Albritton, 2018 Suggesting something alive yet perhaps not actively developing, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas’s solo exhibition Dormant aims to question our internalized bigotry—the sleeping beasts within us—concerning colorism, racism, and identity. Converting statements Cumbas has overheard people make about race or color and turning them into titles, these bits of poetic [...]
Read MoreThe upcoming essay by St. Petersburg photo historian Sabrina Hughes, My Camera My Self(ie), which will post on Bay Art Files next week, examines the complex relationship between photographic self-portraiture and the selfie. That such a relationship might exist and be scrutinized is explicitly suggested by the title of the current [...]
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