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@larry_william21 🙏🏾 Internal/External Splendor, Digital Collage, 2020. #supportblackart #larrycook #digitalcollage #internalsplendor #foundphotography #prisonpolaroids #prisonlandscapes https://www.instagram.com/p/CCw-vVghupO/?igshid=1a2ui6h2w7znj

Via @curator_juana ✨ TOMORROW - opening reception for Larry Cook: On the Scene. ⁠ On the Scene is solo exhibition that explores the cultural aesthetic of “club” photography and painted backdrops. The photographs featured were taken within the last two years in the Washington, DC area. Larry Cook set up makeshift photo booths featuring hand-painted backdrops, portraying either landscapes of leisure or high-end products. ⁠ ⁠ On the Scene utilizes pictorial realism, fantasy, and photography to examine the larger questions of status, individualism, and materialism within black culture. These works are featured with archival photographs dating back to 1980, highlighting the pose, gesture, and choreography in this visual form of representation #supportblackart #larrycook #realism #portraitphotography #blackphotographers #howarduniversity #blackculture #clubphotography #representation #uicagr #grandrapidsart #fantasy #contemporaryphotography (at UICA) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3LHLvSBase/?igshid=10qw9phejabql

 "Larry Cook’s “Regalia” series, he outfits his friends in doctoral gowns, traditional academic regalia intended to reflect academic achievement and contribution. They are photographed against the conventional soft-gradient background of school pictures. By working in a directorial mode, Cook constructs his own symbology within the photographs. He creates what he wants to see and wants others to see. Cook explains that through this series he is “trying to break this school-to-prison pipeline and reintroduce a different view of black males."