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New York Review of Books
Photographs from Columbia’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment May 21, 2024By Accra Shepp
"I photographed Occupy Wall Street for a year, from 2011 to 2012. Nearly ten years later, as part of my work documenting the Covid-19 pandemic, I followed the Black Lives Matter demonstrations of 2020. It was never my intent to focus on social justice, and I continue to make more experimental images. But paying attention to culture—which is to say people—is the work of everyone in the arts, and my intentions had to bend to the reality around me, around all of us. Last month, when students at universities around the country began setting up encampments to protest the war in Gaza, I came to realize..."
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Featured Publications
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Publications
Born Free, Born Equal
Joseph Maida, Ansel Adams November 7, 2023Read an excerpt from Joseph Maida's foreword featured in The Nation, November 29, 2023: Seeing Japanese American Heritage Through Ansel Adams's Lens Joseph Maida’s new photographic monograph BORN FREE, BORN... -
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Radical Justice: Lifting Every Voice
Accra Shepp, Salamishah Tillet April 19, 20222022 AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers Award Winner Radical Justice: Lifting Every Voice brings together two bodies of socially-engaged photographic portraiture by Accra Shepp, who has documented New York... -
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Utopia Centerfolds at Play
Brandon Isralsky, Ina Jang, Dean Sameshima March 19, 2019Utopia Centerfolds At Play brings together three artists' projects - Brandon Isralsky's Centerfolds and Fuckboys, Ina Jang's Utopia, and Dean Sameshima's Young Men At Play - to constellate explorations of... -
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Cherry Blossom Box Set
Ryker Allen, Jack Pierson August 28, 2018This limited-edition, collector's version of Cherry Blossom comes in a custom-made, hot-foiled box signed and numbered by the artist. Using medium-format film photography alongside notes, postcards, and other mixed media,...
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Seeing Japanese American Heritage Through Ansel Adams’s Lens
November 29, 2023My great aunt Katherine, a nisei Japanese American from Hawai‘i, and my great uncle Joe, a southern Italian immigrant from Satriano, Calabria, met at the height of World War II... -
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ACCRA SHEPP : DISSIDENCE, MÉCONTENTEMENT ET ACTION : PHOTOS DES ÉTATS-UNIS
May 23, 2023Une nouvelle exposition, « Dissent, Discontent, and Action : Pictures of US by Accra Shepp », est présentée au Spencer Museum of Art. (University of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas) À travers... -
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Look At This: A Re-Examination of The Nude
March 2, 2022T: The New York Times Style Magazine review of A Third Look by Joseph Maida It was in a Borders in Philadelphia in the mid-1990s that the New York-based photographer... -
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Did Occupy Wall Street mean anything at all?
September 19, 2021A look at the legacy of the movement that swept the world, ten years on Around noon on September 24 2011, a young black man named Robert Stephens fell to...
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Exhibitions
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Exhibitions
Blues People
Express Newark 20 February - 19 July 2024Inspired by the 60th anniversary of the acclaimed book Blues People: Negro Music in White America by writer, poet, and political activist Leroi Jones, who later renamed himself Amiri Baraka,... -
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People Watching: Contemporary Photography Since 1965
Bowdoin College Art Museum 24 June - 5 November 2023Since the advent of photography in the nineteenth century, artists have used the camera to look at—and to look with—the human subjects in their midst. They have made a practice... -
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Trace - Formations of Likeness
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany 14 April - 23 July 2023Examining how photographers across a range of cultures have deployed portraiture as an apparatus for critical investigation throughout the history of the medium, Trace visualises the political and cultural factors... -
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Celebrating the City
Museum Of The City Of New York 18 February 2022 - 9 January 2023New York City may always be in flux, but shared activities and experiences connect New Yorkers across time and space. For more than a century, many of the world’s best...
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Events
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Events
The Photography Show 2024
AIPAD 25 - 28 April 2024643 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065 Park Avenue Armory, New York City Thursday, April 25: 12pm VIP Opening 5-8pm Evening Preview Friday, April 26: 12pm Fair Opens 5pm -... -
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NYC Through the Decades: A Collaboration with LinkNYC
Museum of the City of New York 13 October - 30 November 2023On view starting Friday, October 13, in honor of the Museum’s Birthday Weekend, selections from the Museum’s collection will be featured on LinkNYC kiosk screens throughout the five boroughs in... -
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Convoke X ICP PhotoBook Fest
21 - 22 May 2022CONVOKE @ ICP PHOTOBOOK FEST May 21-22, 11-7pm Presented in partnership with The Photography Show: Presented by AIPAD, ICP Photobook Fest will include leading photobook publishers and photographers showcasing their... -
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Radical Justice x The SVA Theatre NYC
1 April 2022Photographer Accra Shepp discusses his work with feminist activist, scholar, author, and contributing Critic at Large for The New York Times, Salamishah Tillet on the occasion of Shepp’s first monograph...
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