Deb Willis and Hank Willis Thomas: A mother and son united by love and art
Ντέμπορα Γουίλις, Χανκ Γουίλις Τόμας: Μητέρα και γιος ενωμένοι με αγάπη και τέχνη
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Κι εγώ είμαι η μητέρα του Χανκ.
I See Myself In You,"
βλέπω τον εαυτό μου σε σένα»,
the symbiotic relationship
through our life and work.
από τη ζωή και τη δουλειά μας.
in my mother's footsteps
γίνεται ακόμα πιο δύσκολο.
μου έμαθε πολλά πράγματα
it's a way of doing,
να υπάρχεις, να πράττεις
and it's a way of seeing.
when they make photographs.
and finding love.
in my family and friends
as a way of telling a story about life,
για να πουν ιστορίες για τη ζωή,
to become a family in North Philadelphia.
στη Βόρεια Φιλαδέλφεια.
searching for pictures
ψάχνοντας για φωτογραφίες
about black love, black joy
την αγάπη των μαύρων, τη χαρά των μαύρων
the action of love overrules as a verb.
η αγάπη ως πράξη νικά την αγάπη ως ρήμα.
if the love of looking is genetic,
η αγάπη για παρατήρηση είναι κληρονομική
since before I can even remember.
after my mother and her mother --
όπως η μητέρα μου και η γιαγιά μου -
were my first love.
for calling me a "ham"
με φωνάζεις «ζαμπόν»
στο σπίτι της γιαγιάς μου,
to my grandmother's house,
και τι μου είναι εμένα,
and who are they to me,
σ' αυτή τη φωτογραφία;
when that picture was taken?
σ' αυτή τη φωτογραφία;
πριν γεννηθώ εγώ;»
before I was born?"
in black and white.
στη Β. Φιλαδέλφεια
in North Philadelphia,
looking at "Ebony Magazine,"
ξεφυλλίζοντας το περιοδικό «Ebony»
that were often not in the daily news,
που δεν υπήρχαν στις ειδήσεις,
to be energetic for me,
να είναι ενεργητικό για μένα,
in the Philadelphia Public Library
στη Δημόσια Βιβλιοθήκη Φιλαδέλφειας
by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes.
του Ρόι Ντε Καράβα και Λάγκστον Χιούγκς.
as a seven-year-old,
as a seven-year-old,
that Roy DeCarava made
που τράβηξε ο Ρόι Ντε Καράβα
that I could tell a story about life.
εγώ να πω μια ιστορία για τη ζωή.
that basically changed my life.
που ουσιαστικά μου άλλαξε τη ζωή.
told me that every photographer,
μου είπε ότι κάθε φωτογράφος
trying to answer one question,
να απαντήσει σε μία ερώτηση
see how beautiful we are,
πόσο όμορφοι είμαστε,
see our community the way I do?"
την κοινότητά μας όπως τη βλέπω εγώ;»
that I was taking up a good man's space.
ότι χαράμιζα τη θέση ενός άντρα.
of becoming a photographer.
να γίνω φωτογράφος.
in a class full of male photographers.
σε μια τάξη γεμάτη άντρες φωτογράφους
and out of order as a woman,
εκτός τόπου και χρόνου σαν γυναίκα
που μπορούσα και έπρεπε να κάνω
that all you could and would do
could have had your seat in this class.
μπορούσε να πάρει τη θέση μου στο μάθημα.
into that experience.
and I was determined to prove to him
και αποφάσισα να του αποδείξω
for a seat in that class.
"Why did I need to prove it to him?"
«Γιατί πρέπει να το αποδείξω σ' αυτόν;»
and I knew I needed to prove to myself
και ήθελα να αποδείξω στον εαυτό μου
a difference in photography.
κανείς δε μπορεί να με σταματήσει
is going to stop me from making images.
I got pregnant.
αποφοίτησα, και έμεινα έγκυος.
that he used against me
and made photographs daily,
και φωτογράφιζα κάθε μέρα
as I prepared for graduate school.
για την αποφοίτηση.
that black photographers were missing
οι μαύροι φωτογράφοι λείπουν
for ways to tell a story.
«A Choice of Weapons»
"A Choice of Weapons,"
και να τραβάω εικόνες
that I made of my pregnant belly,
που έδειχνε την κοιλιά μου
to create a new piece,
να κάνω ένα νέο έργο
taking a place from a good man,"
παίρνει τη θέση ενός άντρα»,
and reversed it and said,
τα αντέστρεψα και είπα
γεμάτο φωτογραφίες.
would turn the kitchen into a darkroom.
είχε κάνει την κουζίνα σκοτεινό θάλαμο.
just pictures that she took
of and by people that we didn't know,
άγνωστων ανθρώπων,
of men and women that we knew,
που εγώ δεν γνώριζα.
from what I learned in school,
ήταν σχεδόν σίγουρο
to figure out what she was up to,
να καταλάβω τι ετοίμαζε
she published this book,
A Bio-Bibliography."
Μια Βιο-Βιβλιογραφία».
were making photographs.
τραβούσαν φωτογραφίες.
before the end of slavery,
πριν το τέλος της δουλείας,
της επιστήμης και της τεχνολογίας,
of science and technology,
just to make a single photograph.
φυσική και χημεία
να βγάλουν μια φωτογραφία.
to do that if not love?
από τι το έκαναν;
"Black Photographers, 1940-1988,"
«Μαύροι Φωτογράφοι, 1940-1988»
and another book, and another book,
and another book, and another book,
and another book, and another book,
κι ένα άλλο, κι ένα άλλο
κι ένα άλλο, κι ένα άλλο, κι ένα άλλο.
and another book, and another.
on every continent,
σε κάθε ήπειρο
but all inspired by the curiosity
αλλά όλα γεννημένα από την περιέργεια
from North Philadelphia.
από τη Βόρεια Φιλαδέλφεια.
black photographers had stories to tell,
είχαν πράγματα να πουν,
like Augustus Washington,
όπως ο Ογκούστους Ουάσινγκτον
τις όμορφες νταγκεροτυπίες
in the early 1840s and '50s.
στις αρχές του 1840 και 1850.
black photographers,
οι μαύροι φωτογράφοι
about black life during slavery,
τη ζωή των μαύρων την εποχή της δουλείας
and telling stories about community.
και τις ιστορίες της κοινότητας.
needed to know this story.
να μάθουν αυτές τις ιστορίες.
my mother's first student.
της μητέρας μου.
puppet strings --
should make my own pictures
and the now and then.
το τώρα και το τότε.
how I could use photography
να χρησιμοποιήσω τη φωτογραφία
outside of the frame of the camera
που συμβαίνουν εκτός του κάδρου
of the actual image maker
στα χέρια του φωτογράφου
what's being cut out.
τι έμεινε απ' έξω.
as a jumping-off point
να χρησιμοποιήσω την έρευνά της
about how I could use historical images
να χρησμοποιήσω ιστορικές εικόνες
του παρελθόντος στο παρόν
τα ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα και την ισότητα
for human rights and equal rights
εικαστικές εγκαταστάσεις και πίνακες.
one piece has affected me the most.
ένα έργο με επηρέασε περισσότερο.
by Ernest Withers,
του Έρνεστ Γουίδερς,
απορριμάτων στο Μέμφις,
to affirm their humanity.
για να υπερασπιστούν την ανθρωπότητα.
that said "I am a man,"
«Είμαι άντρας»,
because the phrase I grew up with
γιατί εγώ δε μεγάλωσα με τη φράση
it was "I am the man,"
με τη φράση «είμαι ο άντρας»
collective statement during segregation
το πώς μια συλλογική δήλωση
after integration.
μετά την ολοκλήρωσή της.
in as many ways as I could think of,
το κείμενο όσο πιο πολύ μπορούσα
as a timeline of American history,
της αμερικάνικης ιστορίας
Εσύ ο άντρας. Τι άντρας.
You the man. What a man.
in the English language is, "I am."
είναι η λέξη «είμαι».
την ικανότητα να αγαπάμε.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Deborah Willis - Curator, photographerDeborah Willis is a photographer and writer in search of beauty.
Why you should listen
As an author and curator, Deborah Willis's pioneering research has focused on cultural histories envisioning the black body, women and gender. She is a celebrated photographer, acclaimed historian of photography, MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow, and University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
Willis received the NAACP Image Award in 2014 for her co-authored book Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery (with Barbara Krauthamer) and in 2015 for the documentary Through a Lens Darkly, inspired by her book Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present.
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Hank Willis Thomas - Artist
Hank Willis Thomas is a conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to identity, history and popular culture.
Why you should listen
Hank Willis Thomas's work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad including, the International Center of Photography, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Musée du quai Branly, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. His work is in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the High Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, among others.
Thomas's collaborative projects include Question Bridge: Black Males, In Search Of The Truth (The Truth Booth), and For Freedoms. For Freedoms was recently awarded the 2017 ICP Infinity Award for New Media and Online Platform. Thomas is also the recipient of the 2017 Soros Equality Fellowship and the 2017 AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize. Current exhibitions include Prospect 4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp in New Orleans and All Things Being Equal at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. In 2017, Thomas also unveiled his permanent public artwork "Love Over Rules" in San Francisco and "All Power to All People" in Opa Locka, Florida. Thomas is a member of the Public Design Commission for the City of New York. He received a BFA in Photography and Africana studies from New York University and an MFA/MA in Photography and Visual Criticism from the California College of Arts. He has also received honorary doctorates from the Maryland Institute of Art and the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. He lives and works in New York City.
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