Hear For All the World to See curator Maurice Berger on NPR's Maryland Morning and read about this project in Lionel Foster's incisive on moving essay in the Baltimore Sun.
> Hear interview with curator Maurice Berger on Maryland Morning
> Read Lionel Foster's Incisive commentary in the Baltimore Sun
Excellent coverage of For All the World to See in our hometown newspaper, the Baltimore City Paper!
Read all about it: For All the World to See in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, and MSNBC Iternaries plus an outstanding feature on the NEH on the Road version of the exhibition at its first venue--the Wyandotte County Historical Museum, Bonner Springs, Kansas (starting 6 April 2012)--in the Kansas City Kansan!
> Read About FATWTS in the Washington Post
> Read about FATWTS on The Huffington Post
> Read About FATWTS on MSNBC-Itineraries
>Read about FATWTS/NEH on the Road in the Kansas City Kansan
For All the World to See is now part of a Smithsonian-wide conversation on race! For more, read this piece in Anthropology News--"Washington Talks About Race" by Joslyn Osten.
Smithsonian Magazine's profile of For All the World to See curator, Prof. Maurice Berger, is now online, along with a slide show of materials in the exhibition!
Read this excellent article on For All the World to See by Clarence V. Reynolds in The Network Journal.
Read about For All the World to See in these media outlets!
> For All the World to See on the "Around the Mall" blog of Smithsonian Magazine.
> For All the World to See on goSmithsonian
> For All the World to See on the Multi-Literacy Revolution website
> For All the World To See on 9 AM NEWS, the Romanian News Service
> For All the World to See on DC Metro Arts
> For All the World to See in the Toonari Post
> Akacocolopez Summer Reading List!
> For All the World to See in the Washington City Paper
> Read about FATWTS as Recommended By CivicSource: A Civic Engagement Web Portal.
> The Pink Line Project selects For All the World to See as the exhibition to see in DC!
> Read the Luncheon of the Museum Goer Review of For All the World to See>
Curious-er recommends that parents take their children to see For All the Word to See at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History . . . calling it "a wonderful education for your child beaten down by pablum about Martin Luther King."
> Read the Review from Curious-er
Read the article and view the slide show about For All the World to See on CNN!
Read this review of For All the World to See in the Washington DC Examiner.
Read about For All the World to See in this excellent article by Stephen Deusner of the Washington Express, the daily print/online newspaper published by the Washington Post.
Read about For All the World to See on Substance & Style/DC!
Read about For All the World to See at The Smithsonian in this article by the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Trymaine Lee. A Must read!
Read About For All the World to See at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in the Washington Post!
The Washington Post's Express Night Out picks For All the World to See as a summer destination in DC. Opening soon at the National Museum of American History (10 June to 27 November 2011).
In celebration of Mother's Day, the Blog of the International Center of Photography Library includes For All the World to See (Yale, 2010), pointing out the central role in the book played by Emmett Till's mother in altering the course of history. For more about the companion book to the FATWTS exhibition, click on BOOK on the main menu above.
Just published: a new article on For All the World to See on the Yale Press Log!
Go Shorty--Chicago's South Side Resource for Culture, Education, Health, and Young People--recommends For All the World to See!
Read about the June arrival of For All the World to See at the Smithsonian on the Smithsonian Archives blog, "The Bigger Picture."
Read about For All the World to See in a news story on the homepage of the National Endowment for the Humanities website!
Read about For All the World to See at the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago on Artlog!
Click on below for Nancy Mattoon's outstanding review of For All the World to See on Booktryst. She makes highly perceptive connections between the exhibition and curator Maurice Berger's personal examination of race and whiteness in America, White Lies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999). Well written and perceptive analysis.
> Read "For All the World to See: Images of the Fight for Civil Rights"
Here's a small selection of major reviews, articles, profiles, and interviews about For All the World to See during the 2009 to 2010 season:
Click on below for Maurice Berger's Emmy Award nominated curator tour of For All the World to See at the International Center of Photography on PBS SUNDAY ARTS which aired on Sunday, 1 August 2010!
>Watch For All the World to See on Sunday Arts
Listen to For All the World to See is on National Public Radio! Margot Adler's NPR profile of the exhibition on Weekend Edition Sunday is an exemplary piece of journalism: concise, incisive, and filled with nuance. The show aired nationally on 1 August 2010.
> Listen to For All the World to See on NPR's Weekend Edition.
Read Holland Cotter's front page review of For All the World to See in The New York Times. And take a look at a Times slide show of some of the work in the exhibition.
> Read The New York Times Review
> Take a look at The New York Times Slide Show
Read about For All the World to See on The New Yorker "Photo Booth" blog in this excellent review and slide show by New Yorker visuals editor in chief, Elisabeth Biondi.
> Check Out The New Yorker Review and Slide Show
Read Vince Aletti's excellent short-form review of For All the World to See in the print edition of The New Yorker:
Click on below for an interview by Will Corwin of Art International Radio (AIR) with For All the World to See curator Maurice Berger, a tour of the show, recorded on-site.
Read another terrific review of For All the World to See in Of Note Magazine!
The Newark Examiner selects For All the World to See as one of its picks for "Summer's End Photography and Art Events."
Read about For All the World to See in Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics and the Yale Press Blog.
Read Vince Aletti's excellent short-form review of For All the World to See in this week's print edition of The New Yorker:
INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
1133 Sixth Ave., at 43rd St. (212-857-0000)—“For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights.” Taking his cue from Gordon Parks, the curator Maurice Berger has organized a shrewd, sophisticated show that posits the camera—and the proliferation of black images in pop culture—as a crucial “weapon” in shaping public opinion and motivating change in America before and during the civil-rights era. His evidence is rich and varied, including film clips of Paul Robeson, Amos ’n’ Andy, the March on Washington, Malcolm X, and the Supremes, as well as a wide array of printed matter, from copies of Ebony, Jet, and Sepia to a poster for “Shaft.” The murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, in 1955, and the publication of pictures of his mutilated corpse, is the exhibition’s terrible turning point. In what Berger calls the movement’s “epic battle against invisibility,” every image counts. Through Sept. 12.
The Oxford American: The Southern Magazine of Good Writing reviews For All the World to See in its "Southern Girl" blog.
The blog of the African American Cultures and Literatures Institute proclaims For All the World to See a "unique real-life space in history [that] will never be forgotten. [It] reminds us not only of how far we have come, but how far we still have to go."
Just out from IDIOM magazine: "Strange Fruit: Civil Rights and Visual Culture
at ICP," a very intelligent and incisive review of For All the World to See.
Here's an excerpt: "There are countless exhibitions, books, films, plays, and dances, like Alvin Ailey’s seminal Revelations, that rely on image to capture the civil rights movement in the United States, especially the bloody struggles of the late fifties, sixties and seventies. The particular intelligence of this exhibition is its focus on the relationship between the image and the struggle, not only at the micro-level of its evocative emotional power, but in the broader context of the media explosion of the mid-twentieth century. To this end, 'this exhibition of 230 objects and clips from television and film examines the extent to which the rise of the modern civil rights movement paralleled the birth of television and the popularity of picture magazines and other forms of visual mass media' . . . .”
The Eye Magazine blog calls For All the World To See a "sophisticated exhibition and a sensory delight." Read on below.
The New York Photo Review urges its readers to make a point of seeing the "excellent" For All the World to See in this just published review.
The Find New York visitors' guide features For All the World to See as a must see exhibition of the summer. Check out pages 3 and 28 for more.
Read about For All the World to See on The New Yorker "Photo Booth" blog in this excellent review and slide show by New Yorker visuals editor in chief, Elisabeth Biondi.
Barbara Hoffman, cultural reporter of the New York Post, selects FATWTS as a hot pick for the Memorial Day weekend.
Holland Cotter on FATWTS in today's starred listing in The New York Times: "Television was best of friends to the civil rights movement in the 1960s, bringing its valiant images, week after week, into American homes. Pictorial glossies like Life and Look had done a similar service a decade earlier. How did the delivery of such images come ab...out? And why? This absorbing think piece of an exhibition gives some answers, defining visual culture in the broadest sense by interspersing videos and vintage magazines with racially loaded objects from Aunt Jemima salt shakers to Black Panther posters."
> Read the New York Times listing for FATWTS
Read a review in The Jewish Exponent of the For All the World to See book (published by Yale University Press).
Read about For All the World to See, in El Pais, Spain's most widely-circulated newspaper.
Read Holland Cotter's front page review of For All the World to See in The New York Times. And take a look at a Times slide show of some of the work in the exhibition.
The New York Times selects For All the World to See as its art pick for important cultural events for the week ahead.
A week to go before For All the World to See premieres at the International Center of Photography in New York. Follow FATWTS on Facebook.
Click on the link below for a very smart and well-written piece on For All the World to See that just launched on the homepage of UMBC's university-wide website. The piece offers excellent background on the project and its curator, Maurice Berger.
Read about For All the World to See in the May/June Humanities magazine, published by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The project was the recipient of two grants from the NEH, for planning (2008) and implementation (2009)
Artnet selects For All the World to See as one of the twenty top national museum shows for May 2010!
FATWTS author Maurice Berger is the latest to be invited to take The Page 99 Test: "Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you."--Ford Madox Ford:
"Page 99 of For All The World To See contains no text, and just a single photograph. But what a powerful image it is: a shot of a distraught Mamie Till Bradley as she views the casket of her fourteen-year old son, Emmett Till, murdered by white supremacists in Mississippi in August 1955. The photograph brings to life the book’s abiding issue: the crucial role that visual culture played in altering prevailing ideas about race, racism, and segregation in the period of the modern civil rights movement . . . "
Here is a smart mini-review of FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE in the BOSTON GLOBE'S "The Find" column in its Sunday book review:
"In 1955, the photograph of Emmett Till’s mutilated body was for many African-Americans the visual equivalent of a knock-out punch. No mainstream newspaper or magazine published the photo, but the black press did. That single image played a powerful role in building the civil rights movement, we learn in Maurice Berger’s “For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights’’ (Yale University), being published April 20 to coincide with the opening of a touring exhibit co-presented by the Smithsonian. The book also looks beyond news headlines, analyzing Walt Disney’s “Song of the South,’’ Aunt Jemima, and the 1967 TV show “Julia,’’ in which racism was mainly a thing of the past . . . "
Read about For All the World to See on Artnet in a news story by Artnet editor in chief, Walter Robinson:
"Two new books tackle the subject of art and politics, a topic that is of special interest in the Shepard Fairey era. Scholar Maurice Berger’s For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights is due from Yale University Press on Apr. 20, 2010. Six years in the making, the book looks at the role played by visual images, and the rise of television and picture magazines, in the struggle for civil rights in the U.S.
The publication coincides with an eponymous exhibition that opens at the International Center of Photography, May 21-Sept. 12, 2010, and subsequently appears at the two co-organizing institutions, the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., and the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in Baltimore . . ."
> Read the Artnet story, "Art and Politics, Between the Covers"
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