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« Tuesday May 29, 2012 »
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Gallery Show: Lillian Bassman prints -- Miami Beach
Check out 17 prints from famed fashion photographer Lillian Bassman, who died just last month, at Books & Books Miami Beach. Now through June 1.Bassman won acclaim in the 1940s and ’50s with high-contrast black-and-white portraits of models that had a dreamy quality. In the 1990s, she rediscovered a stash of lost negatives and emerged as a fine-art photographer.A new book of her work Lillian Bassman: Lingerie has just been published. As Ginia Bellafante put it in the New York Times recently, “In place of heavyset women constraining themselves in what was essentially equipment, Ms. Bassman deployed immeasurably lithe models, conveying a world in which women seemed to linger in the pleasures of their own sensuality.” Fifty years later, these images have lost none of their allure, and the enormous cultural impact of the TV show Mad Men has given them new currency.  1. It’s a Cinch, model: Carmen, Merry Widow by Warner’s, 1951, for Harper’s Bazaar, © Lillian Bassman  2. Southwest Passage—Sunset Pink, pajamas by Kickernick, 1951, for Harper’s Bazaar, © Lillian Bassman   3. The Line Lengthens, lingerie by Lily of France, 1955, for Harper’s Bazaar, © Lillian Bassman     4. Silo, Bra and Panties, 1948 (advertisement for Firestone Contro elastic yarn), © Lillian Bassman   
Letra Urbana -- Gables
Start: 6:30 pm
Please note this event is in Spanish: En esta presentación veremos cómo grupo de hip hop colombiano Choc Quib Town le da forma activamente a su identidad. Pertenecientes a una de las regiones mas ricas en recursos naturales, pero mas pobres del país, estos jóvenes del Chocó, construyen de manera activa un discurso musical y visual que analizaremos a través de un recorrido por algunos de sus videos, desde donde interrogaremos sus acciones musicales. Qué nos enseñan acercan del supuesto multiculturalismo colombiano? Cómo utilizan un lenguaje musical proveniente de los guettos de los Estados Unidos, para afirmar una identidad propia? Veremos cómo utilizan su medio de expresión escogido para establecer un punto de resistencia cultural y al mismo tiempo lograr un éxito comercial que los saca de la pobreza y sirve a las generaciones nuevas para entender cómo darle forma a sus vidas de un modo mas creativo, orgullosos de sus circunstancias, mientras encaran un futuro lleno de nuevas posibilidades. 
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