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03-27-2006, 04:45 PM
hmm - that sounds sort of like i went to see a photography exhibition over at my kkk buddies house or something - no!
i went to see a photography exhibition on the kkk in america in the 21st century and their family lives at st. mungo's museum of modern art, glasgow.
the exhibition itself - very impressive.
i would be interested to hear other people's opinions opinions about the photographs: all are online at www.generationkkk.com (http://www.generationkkk.com/gallery.html).
one of the most shocking ones, i find, is this (http://www.generationkkk.com/page_29.html) one - 4 years old, this boy! four years! the one with the girl on the grave is a technically beautiful photograph, too, and the one with the grand wizard type dude buying something from a cashier with a full gown on.
what strikes me most in these pictures is - and i know this sounds silly - the total normalness of these people. no, they don't have two heads and radiation poisoning and horrible genetic deformities. these photographs just conveyed such a communal and everyday existence; hand-stitched gowns, that 4 year old posing in his hood like the first day at school, marriage, hand-crafted community-arts type signs. it's curious. very eye-opening. i highly recommend a look (y)
what was one of the most intriguing things about the exhibition was the comments book, however! gee whizz. i really think they should publish stuff like this that features in particularly sensitive events like this.
it ranged from the people shocked and horrified that something such as this exists so blatantly and alive in our day and age - people asking for the "burning and crucification of them racist bastards!" [hmm, yeah cos that will solve the issue!], to the very thoughtful and intelligent, to the quite short and funny - "i wonder what they talk about at their little picnics?" to calls for peace and yadda yadda to "i live in mississippi and i've never seen anyone dressed in this shit!" to, quite alarmingly frequently, people saying stuff like "YEAH BUT WHAT ABOUT ALL THE VIOLENCE TO WHITE PEOPLES BY BLACK PEOPLE - MY FRIEND WAS STABBED TO DEATH IN LONDON BY BLACKS BUT WE'LL NEVER GET AN EXHIBITION ON HOW BLACK PEOPLE HATE US, WILL WE?"
i felt like highlighting this entry and explaining that the photojournalist in question set out to document three things:
a. the kkk
b. in the 21st century
c. and how they exist as a family/community
not to be fucking representative of race/racism as a giant entity [although this work is part of a wider one which seeks to ask some additional questions]
anyway. it was interesting.
i went to see a photography exhibition on the kkk in america in the 21st century and their family lives at st. mungo's museum of modern art, glasgow.
the exhibition itself - very impressive.
i would be interested to hear other people's opinions opinions about the photographs: all are online at www.generationkkk.com (http://www.generationkkk.com/gallery.html).
one of the most shocking ones, i find, is this (http://www.generationkkk.com/page_29.html) one - 4 years old, this boy! four years! the one with the girl on the grave is a technically beautiful photograph, too, and the one with the grand wizard type dude buying something from a cashier with a full gown on.
what strikes me most in these pictures is - and i know this sounds silly - the total normalness of these people. no, they don't have two heads and radiation poisoning and horrible genetic deformities. these photographs just conveyed such a communal and everyday existence; hand-stitched gowns, that 4 year old posing in his hood like the first day at school, marriage, hand-crafted community-arts type signs. it's curious. very eye-opening. i highly recommend a look (y)
what was one of the most intriguing things about the exhibition was the comments book, however! gee whizz. i really think they should publish stuff like this that features in particularly sensitive events like this.
it ranged from the people shocked and horrified that something such as this exists so blatantly and alive in our day and age - people asking for the "burning and crucification of them racist bastards!" [hmm, yeah cos that will solve the issue!], to the very thoughtful and intelligent, to the quite short and funny - "i wonder what they talk about at their little picnics?" to calls for peace and yadda yadda to "i live in mississippi and i've never seen anyone dressed in this shit!" to, quite alarmingly frequently, people saying stuff like "YEAH BUT WHAT ABOUT ALL THE VIOLENCE TO WHITE PEOPLES BY BLACK PEOPLE - MY FRIEND WAS STABBED TO DEATH IN LONDON BY BLACKS BUT WE'LL NEVER GET AN EXHIBITION ON HOW BLACK PEOPLE HATE US, WILL WE?"
i felt like highlighting this entry and explaining that the photojournalist in question set out to document three things:
a. the kkk
b. in the 21st century
c. and how they exist as a family/community
not to be fucking representative of race/racism as a giant entity [although this work is part of a wider one which seeks to ask some additional questions]
anyway. it was interesting.