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The Lesbian Herstory Archives of Brooklyn hosts:
Welcome Home An exhibition of the first photography
book about the Michigan Womyn's
Music Festival
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An exhibition of images from
Welcome Home: Building the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
by
photographer Angela Jimenez opens May 14, 2010.
April 26, 2010 (Brooklyn, NY)- The Lesbian Herstory Archives presents Welcome Home, an exhibition of photographs by Angela Jimenez from her book, Welcome Home: Building the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (self-published, August 2009).
The New York Timescalled the book "a remarkably intimate portrait of shared ritual and camaraderie."
Welcome Home is the first documentary book chronicling the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, one of the world's oldest and largest lesbian feminist gatherings. The first-edition, hardcover book features 120 pages of photographs by Jimenez, a photojournalist who documented the Festival over the course of 6 years, during part of which she was a Festival worker. Welcome Home is an independent project by the photographer, not a publication of the Festival.
The Archives, a non-profit founded in 1975 and located in Park Slope, Brooklyn, is home to the world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians and their communities.
"Angela Jimenez brings a transparency, beauty and insight into the world of womyn's space, a culture that has been either ignored or misunderstood by mainstream culture (gay and straight)," said Grace Moon, founder of Velvetpark Media, a co-sponsor of the exhibit. "In this case, seeing is understanding."
The premiere exhibit of Welcome Home ran at the LGBT Center in Manhattan from February through April, 2010.
Who: The Lesbian Herstory Archives and photographer Angela Jimenez. Exhibit co-sponsored by Velvetpark Media
What: Welcome Home, the first exhibition of photographs from the book, Welcome Home: Building the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival by photographer Angela Jimenez
Where: The Lesbian Herstory Archives. 484 14 St. between 8th Avenue and Prospect Park West in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
718.768.DYKE When: Opening Party Friday May 14 from 7-9 pm
Exhibit on view through the summer
More about the
photographer: Angela Jimenez is a
documentary photographer/photojournalist who works as a regular contributor to
The New York Times among other publications, and is a contract photographer
with Getty Images. She specializes in projects about underexposed subcultures
and has published and exhibited original projects on diverse subjects such as
the womyn's land separatist movement, aging track & field athletes,
same-sex ballroom dancing, horse gambling culture, the Hurricane Katrina
diaspora, the Dinah Shore lesbian spring break and the waning tradition of the
American Catholic priesthood. Welcome Home is
her first book. You can see more of Angela's
work on her homepage.
Learn more about Welcome Home and read press coverage on the book's homepage. |
**Images for press usage ONLY are available for hi-resolution download here.
Gallery password: ARCHIVES (all capital letters)
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