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Frames series[edit]

Hi Maddiebossidy, you've added a paragraph long section about Thomas's work without describing what, where, when it is! You've also only provided one source – a 2003 magazine article. Right now I'm thinking the whole section should probably be deleted, as it doesn't warrant much or any space – especially in the scope of the artist's career. Hesperian Nguyen (talk)

Frames series

Hank Willis Thomas’s Frames series takes on violence and black subjectivity. This work was completed with a large amount of collaborators, allowing for various insights and merging of modes of critiques. These sixteen images give a unique look into blackness, allowing their ‘off frame’ characteristics to help give meaning to the depicted. Thomas uses framing and background details to create identity and rhetoric, telling of social issues within the black community. This series promotes Thomas’s intentions of “aesthetic as performance” and the “problematic status of the photograph as document”; each photo within the series works as both individual piece, using mise-en-abyme technique to contribute to “the stylistic inconsistency of the series as a whole.” ^[1]

Moving this section here in response to my above comment. Really this contribution is just a single source with critical praise/references for a something that is impossible to understand what/where/when it was. It's not an encyclopedic entry in other words. Hesperian Nguyen (talk)

References

^ Copeland, Huey (2003). "Being in the Picture: Hank Willis Thomas'FramesSeries". Qui Parle. 13 (2): 137–142. doi:10.1215/quiparle.13.2.137. ISSN 1041-8385.

Unity[edit]

To add: Unity (Thomas) ---Another Believer _(Talk) 20:17, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Embrace[edit]

To add: The Embrace ---Another Believer _(Talk) 15:12, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox image[edit]

From my tablet, I see the infobox image for Thomas shows a sculpture on the main page, but when I click on it, his face is shown like a standard infobox photo.

Is this intentional? GoutComplex (talk) 03:19, 16 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Copeland, Huey (2003). "Being in the Picture: Hank Willis Thomas'FramesSeries". Qui Parle. 13 (2): 137–142. doi:10.1215/quiparle.13.2.137. ISSN 1041-8385.

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