Sentences with phrase «unbranded series»

The subversive appropriations of commercial imagery in Hank Willis Thomas's Unbranded series, on view in the Block's main gallery, serve as a launching pad for this series, which looks at the ways filmmakers have used cinema to explore — and to dismantle — socially - imposed images and identities of race, class, gender, and sexuality.

The subversions of commercial imagery in Hank Willis Thomas's Unbranded series serve as a launching pad for this cinema series featuring films that explore and dismantle socially - imposed images and identities of race, class, gender and sexuality.

from the Unbranded series, 1970/2007.

While works in Branded are constructed from manipulated advertising images, for the Unbranded series, Willis Thomas makes minimal changes to the adverts, simply removing the original text, logos and slogans to create the necessary space for an unmediated reading of these problematic images.

Not exact matches

Unbranded: A Century of White Women ends with the year in which Thomas finished working on the series, stretching back to five years before American women gained the right to vote.

The following selections are drawn from two related bodies of work — the series Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America 1968 — 2008 (2005 — 08), and Unbranded: A Century of White Women 1915 — 2015 (2015), which are the focus of the exhibition Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded currently on view at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University.

About half of this 26 - work exhibition comes from those series, particularly «Unbranded: A Century of White Women, 1915 - 2015,» alongside real ads from the artist's personal archives.

For his conceptual photography series «Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America 1968 - 2008,» the American artist Hank Willis Thomas took advertisements featuring or directed at African - Americans and simply removed all of the accompanying text.

The Unbranded: Reflections in Black Corporate America and Unbranded White Woman series are made up of selected newspaper adverts from 1960s America.

Ads Imitate Life features work from three celebrated series by Thomas, titled: Branded, Unbranded: Reflections in Black Corporate America and Unbranded White Woman, allowing for an in - depth investigation into the visual language strategies of advertising and the cultural stereotypes in which they are rooted.

Unbranded: A Century of White Women 1915 - 2015 ends with the year in which Thomas finished working on the series, and stretches back to five years before American women gained the right to vote.

In his multi-venue exhibition, currently on view Cleveland, Ohio, is his entire early major series, the 82 - part photographs within Unbranded: Reflections in Black Corporate America, 1968 — 2008, on display -LSB-...]

He first became known for B ® anded, a series of photographs, and Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America 1968 - 2008, a body of work created from appropriating advertising images.

His next series, Unbranded: A Century of White Women.

In his series Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America.

As Hillary Clinton gears up for her second run for the presidency, artist Hank Willis Thomas new photo series, Unbranded: A Century of White Women, 1915 - 2015, explores how popular images of women's roles have changed over the last century.

, series: Unbranded, LightJet print, 2004/2005.

HANK WILLIS THOMAS, a photographer and conceptual artists, says viewing Jacob Lawrence's «The Migration Series» (1940 - 41) when he was a freshman in high school was a pivotal experience that would later directly influence one of his own bodies of work, «Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America 1968 - 2008.»

His work has been displayed across the globe, including at the Museum of Modern Art New York, The Guggenheim Museum and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and selections from three of his series can be seen in Hank Willis Thomas: Branded / Unbranded, hanging in the Monda Gallery through June 10.

«Blackness is so often described in a reductive way and as something so easily determined and defined,» says Thomas, whose video work Question Bridge, and photography series B ® anded and Unbranded have long explored blackness.

The museum's photography gallery will feature all 82 works of Thomas's first major series, Unbranded: Reflections in Black Corporate America, 1968 — 2008.

He took obvious pleasure in presenting to me a portfolio of ads that he began compiling in 2005, which became the basis of a series of works called «Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America 1968 - 2008,» the title something of an ode to his mother.