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Film the Police, 5

Do you want to live in the police state that the reelection of Trump will enable? Have you registered to vote? Have you requested your absentee ballot? Have you planned how you will cast your ballot in this election — by mail or in-person? If the latter, where? Will you vote early if possible in your state? Are you urging everyone in your circle to vote? The survival of this flawed democracy hangs in the balance between now and November 3. Get woke. Stay woke. […]

Summer Doldrums: Ends & Odds (2020)

This 1978 lecture, taken in combination with my Y2K prognostications regarding press photography and photojournalism, recently posted here, you have some means of gauging my capacity for futurecasting. […]

Guest Post 29: Colleen Thornton on Paul Grottkau and Lucy Parsons (7)

Lucy Parsons thus chose two highly regarded, technically proficient New York City photographers to take her photo in 1886. Their talents ensured that these portrait photos captured the public’s attention for decades to come. […]

Guest Post 29: Colleen Thornton on Paul Grottkau and Lucy Parsons (6)

Always the contrarian, Lucy Parsons commanded treatment on her own terms as a wholly unique individual, entitled to equality, dignity, and respect; and she claimed that higher ground not only for herself but for all people, everywhere and forever. […]

Guest Post 29: Colleen Thornton on Paul Grottkau and Lucy Parsons (5)

That Lucy Parsons was not “white” was apparent to both the audiences she addressed and the mass media that routinely reported on her activities. The published observations of her physical attributes referred to her skin color in euphemistic terms such as “dusky,” “mulatto” and “quadroon,” or bluntly as “negro” and “negress,” adjectives and nouns all used to sully her reputation and undermine her credibility. […]