So after doing that kind of work as well as painting and once you got done you had to clean your brush, I remember you know, just taking brushes and going all up and down a particular wall to clean the brush. Though it may not seem racy or controversial nowadays, but in the 50’s this moment was iconic as Kim Kardashian appearing fully nude on the front cover of PAPER magazine. [So] being inspired to do record album jackets [for] music that I like. Courtesy of the artist’s estate and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Scottish photographer Watson was hired by a magazine to capture a series of images about the most powerful people in America – enter Steve Jobs. Aged barn woods, redwood planks, pallet oak and weathered steel are repurposed to create thought provoking images of iconic, popular and controversial figures of the 20th century. It is therefore crucial not to see his referential process as imitative, but rather as a strategy for disassembling the chains of association that have fixed blackness and black artists in place, so to speak. The argument here is that Hendricks does not shy away from foregrounding the spectacular individuality of his sitters, yet he is careful to construct their iconicity through the formal conventions of artistic representation, and to draw attention to this construction through his own formal innovation and his sitters’ self-presentation. Consider the painting’s title: Family Jules: NNN (No Naked Niggahs). Anna Arabindan-Kesson There were lessons to be learned that I could use my own vocabulary, visual vocabulary, to deal with certain areas of extension. You’ll most likely to have seen it printed onto t-shirts and posters re-affirming the idea that Guevara was the poster boy hero of Cuba. Find the perfect handmade gift, vintage & on-trend clothes, unique jewellery, and more… lots more. Art that tells stories that could not have been told by old-fashioned genre and historical painters … because the deliberately and differently orchestrated and accented ironies of this purposeful remix is what the work is all about.’51 While Storr uses this description in relation to the work of contemporary artists including Kerry James Marshall and Kara Walker, a much earlier precedent emerged in Barkley Hendricks’s aesthetic of the quotation in his work in the 1970s. So therefore I didn’t follow that.18. Hendricks describes the evolution of the title in this way: ‘One of my friends said once, when I told him [about a nude that I had in a show] … he said, “hey man, you know, those white people don’t want to see no naked niggahs”.’13 While this quotation on the one hand might refer to the respectability politics around nudity and representation (something I attend to in another part of this In Focus), it also highlights Hendricks’s awareness of the predetermined structures that frame how viewers see through, or look at, race.14 It foregrounds his understanding of the ways black bodies are always already understood, and makes clear his refusal to create work that is only concerned with rewriting these perceptions. Karsh wanted to dispose with the overly associated cigar but Winston was not forthcoming. Creating a colour splash in Photoshop, in an otherwise monochromatic world, is how some artists bring life to their artwork. He has explained: ‘someone once said, oh, he’s doing images that were part of the royalty treatment. INTERVIEW with Duane Michals, focused on his early work. Herzlichen Dank für die tolle Unterstützung anKameraequipment: Delight Rental Services,⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ und jeder der dieses Projekt mit realisierte.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Haare & Make-up: Caterina VeronesiHaarfarbe Warhol: Apollonia GräbnitzHaarschnitt Warhol: Stephan Pauli, Sassoon Salon Berlin ⠀⠀⠀Dokumentation & Videokamera: Nico Simkin⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Photographie Assistenz: Nadine Tschira, Aleksander GudaloProduktion Assistenz: Vannhii Ha Tran⠀⠀⠀Heilige Birma Katzen: Birmas von Malterstorp, Thomas & Wilfried WeberPhoto Retoucher: Raphael Guillou.