Stacy J. Platt - the space in between (Page 3)

29 Sep 2017 6 min read

Not Standing on Ceremony: the Photographs of Jasmine Clark

To engage with Jasmine Clark’s work is to engage with a complex mixture of issues that serve to both define and divide the United States at Portfolio review of photographer Jasmine Clark’s “After Eisenhower Series” by Stacy J. Platt

29 Sep 2017 11 min read

The Art of the Assignment

An unspoken charge given to arts educators is that we inspire in our students an enthusiasm and interest in our craft, provoking and… Photo educators share the best assignments they were given as students and the best assignments that they have given to students.

12 Jun 2017 6 min read

The Persistence of Memory

What undergirds the aesthetics of violence? To what do we ascribe the desire to mark, interrupt, violate those whose beauty we find, as Duras does above "too much?" And does the object of violence need beauty for violence to be bestowed upon it? Is violence a state of mind for the bearer of it, or i

08 Nov 2016 5 min read

Words About Pictures: The Ugly Carnival

In any case, I woke up thinking about this image taken by Magnum photo agency founder Robert Capa. It shows a woman carrying a baby, head shorn, being marched through the streets in the most literal walk of shame ever, jeered at (and likely worse) by French partisans closing in on every side of her.

23 Jul 2015 5 min read

Past Selves, Meet Yesterday's Flood

O my floating life Do not save love for things Throw things to the flood.—Lorine Niedecker, Paen to Place How do you tell yourself to yourself? What is your process for remembering,