The more factual aspects of «Belle,» directed by Amma Asante and
photographed in
beautiful,
portrait - worthy light by Ben Smithard, focus on Lord Mansfield's consideration of the Zong massacre case, in which 142 African slaves were drowned — murdered — by the British slave ship Zong.
Passings We'll collect reactions later today to the sudden death of respected comics and animation writer Dwayne McDuffie — Comic Book Resources has remembrances from more than a dozen industry figures — but I wanted to go ahead and point to a handful of links: The Associated press obituary; a few words from Christopher Irving, accompanied by a
beautiful portrait of McDuffie
photographed by Seth Kushner on Feb. 13; the origin of Static; and a look at Spider - Man anti-drug PSA comics written by McDuffie.
BOOKSHELF To read further about Malick Sidibe, consider «Malick Sidibe,» a recent monograph, «Malick SIdibe: Potographs,» and «You Look
Beautiful Like That: The
Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe.»
1985
Beautiful Photographs, One Penn Plaza, New York, USA Five Years with «The Face», Photographers» Gallery, London, England Imaye, Insight: Photographic Intuitions of the 1980's, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York, USA The New Figure, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, USA Messages from 1985, Light Gallery, New York, USA Picture Taking: Weegee, Walker Evans, Sherrie Levine, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA (exh cat) Entertainment, Josh Baer Gallery, New York, USA Flowers: Varied Perspectives, Patricia Heesy Gallery, New York, USA Nucle, Naked, Stripped, Hayden Gallery, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA (exh cat) Beauty, Palladium, New York, USA Big
Portraits, Jeffrey Hoffeld & Company, New York, USA Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA Self -
Portrait: The Photographer's Persona 1840 - 1985, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Home Work, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, USA