Daniel C. Blight, SPBH Editions & Art on the Underground, 2019
Ken Gonzales-Day Los Angeles based Artist, Author, Professor
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Photography for Social Justice
Ken Gonzales-Day, Keynote Lecture and Exhibition, SPE, Santa Clara University, Nov. 1, 2019
Unseen: Our Past in a New Light
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Unseen: Our Past in a New Light Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar
The early history of portraiture in the United States, from the country’s founding to the
advent of photography in 1839, favored white men who owned land and could vote. Similar to developments in Europe,
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A Historic Horror Story in Siskiyou County That Won’t Go Away
Mitchell Johnson, Jefferson Public Radio, Aug 11
Bone-Grass Boy Book Pages
The Bone-Grass Boy, Secret Banks of the Conejos River, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 2017
US gov’t moves migrant kids after AP exposes bad treatment
The U.S. government has removed most children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas near the border with Mexico following reports that more than 300 children were detained there and caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation.
Only about 30 children remained at the station outside El Paso on Monday,
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Ferguson and Los Angeles
The Ferguson and LA Protest series were each show as part of Run Up, a solo exhibition of Gonzales-Day’s work at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles. The exhibition included a short film entitled Run Up, and restaged period imagery from a reenactment of a lynching from California’s turbulent past that was staged for the camera.
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