Ken Gonzales-Day
American photographer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ken Gonzales-Day is a Los Angeles-based conceptual artist best known for interdisciplinary projects that examine the historical construction of race, identity, and systems of representation including lynching photographs, museum display and street art. His widely exhibited "Erased Lynching" photographic series and book, Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 , document the absence in historical accounts of the lynching of Latinos, Native Americans and Asians in California's early history. The series has toured in traveling exhibitions staged by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , Smithsonian Institution and Minnesota Museum of American Art, and appeared at the Tamayo Museum , Generali Foundation and Palais de Tokyo in Paris, among other venues.
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- Lynching in the West, 1850-1935 (2006) (32)
- Analytical Photography: Portraiture, from the Index to the Epidermis (2002) (26)
- Lynching in the West (2020) (14)
- Choloborg; or, the Disappearing Latino Body (2001) (2)
- The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching (2011) (2)
- Haptic Blackness: The Double Life of an 18th-century Bust (2015) (2)
- Untitled #35, from the museum of broken identities (after Goya's black paintings) (1997) (0)
- The Greatest Good: Capital Punishment or Popular Justice? (2014) (0)
- From Postcards to Plaster Casts: The Image of Lynching in Kienholz's Five Car Stud (2012) (0)
- In Another’s Hand (2023) (0)
- Against the Wall: Muralism in Los Angeles (2017) (0)
- The Wonder Gaze (2014) (0)
- Distant Smiles: Painting of Yishai Jusidman (2000) (0)
- COMPUTER GRAPHICS ANNUAL CONFERENCE SERIES . 1997 : A PUBLICATION OF ACM SIGGRAPH (1997) (0)
- Conceptual and Performance Interventions (2011) (0)
- Seeing Gray: Whiteness and the Erasure of Difference (2003) (0)
- Searching for California's Hang Trees (2010) (0)
- An M.F.A. in L.A. (1999) (0)
- Introduction: Searching for California’s Hang Trees (2014) (0)
- Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, 1920–1991) (2015) (0)
- Fragments: Selections from the Profiled Series (2011) (0)
- Bone-grass boy: the secret banks of the Conejos River (1996) (0)
- Untitled #33, from the museum of broken identities (after Goya's black paintings) (1997) (0)
- Myth of the Hanging Tree: Stories of Crime and Punishment in Territorial New Mexico. By Robert J. Torrez. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. x, 186 pp. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8263-4379-6.) (2009) (0)
- Signifying Bodies: Unblushing and Monstrous (2014) (0)
- In the Shadow of Photography: Copy Prints in the Archive (2014) (0)
- Counting the Dead: Frontier Justice and the Antilynching Movement (2014) (0)
- Portraits at a Museum: An Artist's Project (2010) (0)
- Choloborg: The Disappearance of the Latino Body (2001) (0)
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