SHEILA PREE BRIGHT – #1960NOW
2020-08-17In Sheila Pree Bright’s 2018 monograph #1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests, Alicia Garza, founder of the international Black Lives Matter movement, notes: “the Civil Rights Movement was not one period in history, but in fact, several periods.” The movement that has been calcified by popular memory was in fact preceded by, for example, organized sharecroppers in the Jim Crow south, and succeeded by the movements of today and those that will come tomorrow. In the spirit of contemplation of this lineage, Jackson Fine Art is honored to exhibit Steve Schapiro’s civil rights photographs from the 2019 Taschen publication of The Fire Next Time, an illustrated volume of James Baldwin’s classic text, alongside Sheila Pree Bright’s photographs from #1960Now. Also on view will be Bright’s #1960Now: Art and Intersections, a short film depicting intergenerational correlations between critical thinkers noted in history and the emerging new leaders around the nation.
Opposite – #1960 Now (#ATLisReady and Black Lives Matter Atlanta Chapter Protest Shootings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, Atlanta, GA), 2016
Exhibition runs through to September 19th, 2020
Jackson Fine Art
3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue
Atlanta
GA 30305
