Monday, October 6, 2008

Ken Gonzales-Day

One of my housemates told me today about Ken Gonzales-Day, who is doing really interesting and political art about lynchings in California.

Here are some photos from one of his projects, "Erased Lynchings," that takes old postcards of lynchings and removes the victim from them, to make the viewer focus on the spectators and perpetrators of the crime.






And here are some photos from his project "Hang Trees," where he searched out trees that people were lynched from and took photos of them.




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