COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0006444
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Work Title (display):
Absolut Power
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
2003
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2008-08-17
Work Creator (display):
Hank Willis Thomas (American, born 1976)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
Thomas, whose work was featured in the exhibition and accompanying catalogue, 25 under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers, was raised in New York. He received his BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He went on to earn an MFA in Photography and an MA in Visual Criticism from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Thomas has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the US and abroad, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Artists Space, the Leica Gallery, Texas Women's University, the Oakland Museum, the Smithsonian, the Anacostia Museum, the Bronfman Center for Jewish Life, the National Museum of American History, and the National Portrait Gallery. His photographs have been featured in a number of books and publications, including Reflections in Black: A History of African American Photographers, Friendship, Black: A Celebration of a Culture, and The Spirit of a Family, by Al and Tipper Gore. (http://www.charlesguice.com/artists_hwt.html, accessed 2009-12-09)
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
visiting artist, Visiting Artist Program, 2009
Work Style Period:
21st century
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21st century
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Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
advertisements
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advertisements
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Work Subject:
alcohol
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alcohol
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false
Work Subject:
African Americans
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African Americans
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Work Subject:
popular culture
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popular culture
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
slaves
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slaves
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
slavery
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slavery
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Work Subject:
ships
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ships
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Work Subject:
race (concept)
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race (concept)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
prints
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prints
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false
Work Material and Technique (display):
Light Box, Inkjet on Canvas
Image Rights (display):
© Hank Willis Thomas
Work Rights (display):
© Hank Willis Thomas
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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