still no photos to show

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             I have no photos that I can post tonight. That is not to say I have not taken many photos. I have.   Some follow the guidelines that Julee describes for us, and some are taken in a less calculated way. However, I have failed to upload and post these photos due to a potent combination of digital illiteracy and motivational tardiness. Having missed the work study hours in the photo lab, and on finding that the library computers do not have access to lightroom, I gave up hope of posting my photos before Monday.My blog is a sad sight I know, like the structure of a house quickly and shabbily assembled to shelter from a passing cloud, and then abandoned on the coming of finer weather. It needs love and care to become resilient and and homely so that it can properly house my pictures as easy days of late summer turn to the long night of winter.  
           But I was not absent this week from the world of photography. In fact just today, Sunday, I discovered one of the most impactful photography exhibits I have seen in a long time. I was in the vaulted halls of the MFA, having come to see their new exhibit of impressionist pastels (which is stunning). The photo exhibit which caught my eye, and my curiosity, was that of Lorraine O'Grady. Teh exhibit was titled "Family Gained" and it included work from "Miscegenated Family Alblum". 
This here is my favorite diptic from O'Grady:
           There are so many parallels between the image of Nefertiti on the right and Devonias daughter Kimberly on the right. They share the same shadow on the arm where the shirt sleeve ends. Their high cheekbones, dark eyebrows, and strongly outlines eyes mirror each other. And the most striking thign ot me was the line of each woman's gaze, which is firmly set on the other. This gaze breaks through hundreds of years of cultural evolution and change and holds within it a world of meaning. 
            I look forward to the learning and the doing of posting my photos to the blog tomorrow. 
Reproduction of the photos that I saw can be viewed here: http://lorraineogrady.com/slideshow/miscegenated-family-album/ 



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