May 5, 2020 · This quiet, stirring film centers around the chance encounter of two young people: Casey, a local high school graduate contemplating what comes next, and Jin, who has traveled to this …

Natalie Moore, "This Is Black Chicago: Opportunity and Inequity on the South Side," in Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950–1980, ed. Michal Raz-Russo, with Grace Deveney …

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Many of the Black artists in Chicago who began their careers as photographers in the 1960s later turned to television and film. This essay traces their professional trajectories to explore how their …

Tonika Johnson, "Proof of Love," in Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950–1980, ed. Michal Raz-Russo, with Grace Deveney and Romi Crawford (Art Institute of …

The photographs evoke the 8x10–inch film stills, or “glossies,“ taken by photographers on movie sets and used to promote Hollywood productions since the silent film era.

This history of Chicago photography, as presented in the 2018 exhibition Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950–1980, explores how artists across the city employed …

The resulting film is composed of intentionally artless footage showing Matta-Clark and his friends making two parallel cuts down the center of the house; jacking up one half of the structure and …

Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy wrote Painting Photography Film in 1925 as a polemic to supplant painting, an individualistic art form, with the creative use of new visual media—such as photography …

The film opens with a woman driving up to a secluded house in the woods. Through a series of fixed camera angles that recall surveillance-camera footage in their passivity and fragmentation, Ahtila …