The New Social Environment#68
Chester Higgins with Phong H. Bui
Featuring Higgins and Bui
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Photographer Chester Higgins joins Rail Publisher and Artistic Director Phong H. Bui for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Edwin Torres.
In this talk
Chester Higgins
Chester Higgins is an American photographer, who was a staff photographer with The New York Times for more than four decades, and whose work has notably featured the life and culture of people of African descent. His photographs have over the years appeared in magazines including Look, Life, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Ebony, Essence and Black Enterprise, and Higgins has also published several collections of his photography, among them Black Woman (1970), Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa (1994), Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging (2000), and Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer’s Journey (2004).
Phong H. Bui
Phong H. Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, and Co-Founder and Publisher/Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail, Rail Editions, River Rail and Rail Curatorial Projects.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have Edwin Torres reading.
Edwin Torres
Edwin Torres is a NYC native and neo-lingualisualist. His books of poetry include; Quanundrum: i will be your many angled thing (Roof Books) which received a 2022 American Book Award, Xoeteox: the collected word object (Wave Books), The PoPedology of an Ambient Language (Atelos), and editor of The Body In Language: An Anthology (Counterpath Press). Multi-disciplinary collaborations with a wide range of cultural nomads have contributed to the development of his bodylingo poetics. Edwin will be teaching "Brainlingo," his workshop on poetry and portals, as an adjunct this semester at Columbia University.
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