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The Laband Art Gallery welcomes Rich Frishman and Dr. B. Brian Foster to discuss the imagery in the exhibition Ghosts of Segregation and how they collaborated on their recent publication “Ghosts of Segregation: American Racism Hidden in Plain Sight.” Free and open.

Rich Frishman
Born and raised in Chicago, Rich Frishman studied with photographic artists Reed Estabrook, Robbert Flick, and Art Sinsabaugh at the University of Illinois. As a photojournalist he has contributed to numerous publications including LIFE, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Microsoft, and Time. In 1983 he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. His work is included in prominent institutional collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Amon Carter Museum. Frishman has garnered dozens of prestigious awards, including a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2019 Curator's Choice Award from Review Santa Fe, the 2019 PhotoNOLA Portfolio Review Award, two Sony World Photography Awards (2018) Communication Arts Photography Award (2018), Photo District News Photo Annual (2018), and is a three-time finalist in Photolucida’s Critical Mass competition. Frishman lectures around the US about the intersection of the designed environment, history, and social issues.

Dr. B. Brian Foster
B. Brian Foster is an ethnographer and multi-medium storyteller working to document and interpret the culture, folklore, and placemaking practices of Black communities in the rural U.S. South. He is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, where he teachers course on Black placemaking, popular culture, and qualitative methods. He is author of two books (I Don't Like the Blues and Ghosts of Segregation), three short films, and several public essays.

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