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Hank Willis Thomas Article

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What Needs to be Added:

Early Life:


 * Childhood
 * seems hard to find!
 * How he got into the arts

Inspiration:


 * His reasoning for his work
 * Frames Series
 * Copeland, Huey. “BEING IN THE PICTURE: HANK WILLIS THOMAS' FRAMES SERIES.” Qui Parle, vol. 13, no. 2, 2003, pp. 137–142. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20686154.
 * “Thomas is interested in the production of the aesthetic as performance, the problematic status of the photograph as document and above all, in the institutional work through its reification.” 139
 * ““Off-frame” of the image - the outside that both qualifies and disrupts what is left within its confines - is hardly one group affirmation” 141
 * inspired to do things that create conversation and create a comparison of ideas within an image.
 * different series inviting different ideas, - could focus on the Frame series
 * What first lead him to these types of art and their strong messages