Tag: Stan Douglas

  • Stan Douglas Named the Recipient of ICP’s Infinity Award for Art

    Stan Douglas Named the Recipient of ICP’s Infinity Award for Art

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    Stan Douglas has been named the recipient of the prestigious Infinity Award for Art by the International Center of Photography. Tonight, he will be presented the award at a ceremony in New York City. Douglas works in various media including video, installation and photography. Here, Lightbox visits highlights of three projects from the artist’s prolific photographic endeavors.

  • Stan Douglas: Disco Angola

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    The exhibition presents eight works from the project, which explores the transformative foreign influences of New York City’s 1970s disco culture and the liberation in 1975 of Angola (where the first disco hit was allegedly written) from Portuguese rule. Researching archival photographs, period costumes, and decor, Douglas meticulously recreated historical moments from the two locations that tie them together, and in the process, he probes questions about the veracity of photojournalism and the “decisive moment”.