Working Hands - An interview with photographers David Bacon and Frank Silva from Jackson Nichols on Vimeo.
https://vimeo.com/169321492?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-cliptranscode-201504&utm_campaign=29220
Interview with workplace photographers Frank Silva and David Bacon, along with ILWU Educator and poet Gene Dennis, at the ILWU main office in San Francisco on May 18, 2016.
"What we are doing here, all three of us, is producing socially conscious art, art that is very consciously part of a social movement for change. I don't think that is very well respected in our world, in our art world especially. I don't think you're going to see it at the de Young. I don't think you're going to see it at the Berkeley Art Museum. And I think that is wrong.
"There have been periods of time in the history of this country when the art of working people was part of the mainstream, a very well respected part of our culture. So I think that our show is fighting for something in the art world as well. For the legitimacy, and not just for the legitimacy, but for the importance of having art that reflects the reality that people are dealing with day to day, and that is part of the movement for social change.
"That's someplace where our art world needs to go. So I hope we get some curators from some institutions to come and see this show and think about what they're putting on their own walls. And wondering why there's such a, what I would say, terrible absence of art that really relates to the concerns of the people you see in the photographs that we have on the walls at Photocentral [and the Asian Resource Gallery]."
- David Bacon, from the interview
WORKING HANDS
Photographs of Farm and Recycling Workers by David Bacon
Photographs of Longshoremen by Frank Silva
Photocentral Gallery
1099 E St.
Hayward, CA
6/4 to 8/6/16
Hours: Mon 5-10pm, Tu & Th 10am - 1pm, Sat 12-3pm
ON THE STREETS : UNDER THE TREES
Homelessness and the struggle for housing in urban and rural California
Photographs by David Bacon
Asian Resource Gallery
317 Ninth St at Harrison
Oakland, CA
May - June, 2016
THE REALITY CHECK - David Bacon blog
http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com
EN LOS CAMPOS DEL NORTE: Farm worker photographs on the U.S./Mexico border wall
http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=fc67a76dbb9c31aaee896aff7&id=0644c65ae5&e=dde0321ee7
Youtube interview about the show with Alfonso Caraveo (Spanish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJeE1NO4c_M&feature=youtu.be
David Bacon radio review of the movie, Cesar Chavez
https://soundcloud.com/kpfa-fm-94-1-berkeley/upfronts-david-bacon-reviews-film-on-cesar-chavez-and-the-grape-strike
Interviews with David Bacon about his book, The Right to Stay Home:
Book TV: A presentation of the ideas in The Right to Stay Home at the CUNY Graduate Center
http://booktv.org/Watch/14961/The+Right+to+Stay+Home+How+US+Policy+Drives+Mexican+Migration.aspx
KPFK - Uprisings with Sonali Kohatkar
http://uprisingradio.org/home/2013/09/27/the-right-to-stay-home-how-us-policy-drives-mexican-migration/
KPFA - Upfront with Brian Edwards Tiekert
https://soundcloud.com/kpfa-fm-94-1-berkeley/david-bacon-on-upfront-9-20
Books by David Bacon
The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration (Beacon Press, 2013)
http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2328
Interview with workplace photographers Frank Silva and David Bacon, along with ILWU Educator and poet Gene Dennis, at the ILWU main office in San Francisco on May 18, 2016.
"What we are doing here, all three of us, is producing socially conscious art, art that is very consciously part of a social movement for change. I don't think that is very well respected in our world, in our art world especially. I don't think you're going to see it at the de Young. I don't think you're going to see it at the Berkeley Art Museum. And I think that is wrong.
"There have been periods of time in the history of this country when the art of working people was part of the mainstream, a very well respected part of our culture. So I think that our show is fighting for something in the art world as well. For the legitimacy, and not just for the legitimacy, but for the importance of having art that reflects the reality that people are dealing with day to day, and that is part of the movement for social change.
"That's someplace where our art world needs to go. So I hope we get some curators from some institutions to come and see this show and think about what they're putting on their own walls. And wondering why there's such a, what I would say, terrible absence of art that really relates to the concerns of the people you see in the photographs that we have on the walls at Photocentral [and the Asian Resource Gallery]."
- David Bacon, from the interview
WORKING HANDS
Photographs of Farm and Recycling Workers by David Bacon
Photographs of Longshoremen by Frank Silva
Photocentral Gallery
1099 E St.
Hayward, CA
6/4 to 8/6/16
Hours: Mon 5-10pm, Tu & Th 10am - 1pm, Sat 12-3pm
ON THE STREETS : UNDER THE TREES
Homelessness and the struggle for housing in urban and rural California
Photographs by David Bacon
Asian Resource Gallery
317 Ninth St at Harrison
Oakland, CA
May - June, 2016
THE REALITY CHECK - David Bacon blog
http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com
EN LOS CAMPOS DEL NORTE: Farm worker photographs on the U.S./Mexico border wall
http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=fc67a76dbb9c31aaee896aff7&id=0644c65ae5&e=dde0321ee7
Youtube interview about the show with Alfonso Caraveo (Spanish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJeE1NO4c_M&feature=youtu.be
David Bacon radio review of the movie, Cesar Chavez
https://soundcloud.com/kpfa-fm-94-1-berkeley/upfronts-david-bacon-reviews-film-on-cesar-chavez-and-the-grape-strike
Interviews with David Bacon about his book, The Right to Stay Home:
Book TV: A presentation of the ideas in The Right to Stay Home at the CUNY Graduate Center
http://booktv.org/Watch/14961/The+Right+to+Stay+Home+How+US+Policy+Drives+Mexican+Migration.aspx
KPFK - Uprisings with Sonali Kohatkar
http://uprisingradio.org/home/2013/09/27/the-right-to-stay-home-how-us-policy-drives-mexican-migration/
KPFA - Upfront with Brian Edwards Tiekert
https://soundcloud.com/kpfa-fm-94-1-berkeley/david-bacon-on-upfront-9-20
Books by David Bacon
The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration (Beacon Press, 2013)
http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2328
Illegal People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon Press, 2008)
Recipient: C.L.R. James Award, best book of 2007-2008
http://www.beacon.org/Illegal-People-P780.aspx
Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006)
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100558350
The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004)
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9989.html
En Español:
EL DERECHO A QUEDARSE EN CASA (Critica - Planeta de Libros)
http://www.planetadelibros.com.mx/el-derecho-a-quedarse-en-casa-libro-205607.html
HIJOS DE LIBRE COMERCIA (El Viejo Topo)
http://www.tienda.elviejotopo.com/prestashop/capitalismo/1080-hijos-del-libre-comercio-deslocalizaciones-y-precariedad-9788496356368.html?search_query=david+bacon&results=1
For more articles and images, see http://dbacon.igc.org
Recipient: C.L.R. James Award, best book of 2007-2008
http://www.beacon.org/Illegal-People-P780.aspx
Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006)
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100558350
The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004)
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9989.html
En Español:
EL DERECHO A QUEDARSE EN CASA (Critica - Planeta de Libros)
http://www.planetadelibros.com.mx/el-derecho-a-quedarse-en-casa-libro-205607.html
HIJOS DE LIBRE COMERCIA (El Viejo Topo)
http://www.tienda.elviejotopo.com/prestashop/capitalismo/1080-hijos-del-libre-comercio-deslocalizaciones-y-precariedad-9788496356368.html?search_query=david+bacon&results=1
For more articles and images, see http://dbacon.igc.org
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