Nice pics but there is no way possible to see all of that in one weekend.
You have totally different provinces posted here that even by plane would take most of the day to travel between……. do you even realize exactly how big Canada is? 😂
Donna Gottschalk’s “Brave, Beautiful Outlaws” is opening at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art on Aug. 29. While Ms. Gottschalk doesn’t identify as a documentary photographer or a photojournalist, she has been making pictures since she was 17. Photos selected from her 50-year personal archive will be made public for the first time.
Her work documents her closeness with her working class family and her involvement with the radical lesbian, sometimes separatist, communities in the late ’60s and ’70s.
The photos are tinged with mourning and mystery. She’s been holding their memory for decades, “fiercely protective” and unwilling to “subject them to scrutiny, judgment and abuse” from the outside world.
”Understand, people didn’t care about them or my pictures of them back in the day,” she said. “These people were all very dear to me, and they were beautiful. These pictures are the only memorial some of these people will ever have.”
I believe that grading artists on their work is unkind, pedantic and pointless–but since Markert graduated with a degree in mathematics, this qualifies as one of the rare instances where giving a number is ideal: she gets x^2-(x-2)+26=118 solve for x (where x is positive) out of 10.
The math skills show in the precision of Markert’s photographs, but she’s also able to find the whimsical and sensual aspects of erotic presentation. A portfolio of self-portraits (which she plans to include in a book) may be seen here, where Markert writes:
These images are the beginning of a sentence, to spark my creativity and
remind myself that at the end of the day all I need is right in front
of me–myself and my camera; anything is possible.
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