Zora J Murff – True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis)

Zora J Murff – True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis)Murff constructs a manual for coming to terms with the historical and contemporary realities of Americas divisive structures of privilege and caste. Since leaving social work to pursue photography over a decade ago, Murffs work has consistently grappled with the complicit entanglement of the medium in the histories of spectacle, commodification, and race, often contextualizing his own photographs with found and appropriated images and commissioned

uncovering the suffering and hardship of orphanages

Silkscreen printed hardback

the economic migrants of the animal world: forced into the cities to scratch a living as best they may

an avant-garde manifesto for the medium of photography and a landmark in his own remarkable oeuvre

In its early stages photography offered scientists completely new ways of depicting clouds

sometimes grand manifestos dripping with self-deprecating humour – solidify Capitán’s worldview

who wanted Central Park to be a democratic space that allows all New Yorkers to escape from the distractions of urban life in Manhattan

Paul Kooiker’s “encyclopaedia of life” in 164 images

sheds light on this photographic quest

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