Rick Faris, the front man of the Faris Brothers, used to teach at Americana Music Academy and is now a “Nashville namesake,” said Max Paley, executive director of Americana.
Photography’s presence on SU’s campus has shifted as cameras become more widely available through new technology, but professors and local businesses still look back on the art form itself and analog cameras’ role in the craft.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/t-magazine/latoya-ruby-frazier-photography.html
LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness
A marriage of art and activism, the artist’s searing photographs reveal the human toll of economic injustice.
LaToya Ruby Frazier in her Chicago studio, photographed on Dec. 28, 2020.Credit.Naima Green
By Zoë Lescaze
Published March 1, 2021Updated March 4, 2021
WHEN GENERAL MOTORS announced plans to slash its domestic work force in 2018, company stock soared 5 percent. LaToya Ruby Frazier, a Chicago-based artist whose photographs and videos champion unsung members of the working class, was furious. She decided to embark upon a new series devoted to the autoworkers who were contending with the possible loss of their plant in Lordstown, Ohio; they would be the subject of an upcoming exhibition and a published photo essay. But before any of that could happen, the workers had to agree to let her into their lives. Frazier