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Summary:

"Frank Stewart's Nexus: An American Photographer's Journey, 1960s to the Present is a dynamic retrospective of Stewart's photography that centers on his sensitive and spontaneous approach to portraying world cultures and Black life in many forms -- including music, art, travel, food, and dance. His work over the years captured intimate and empathetic images of lives experienced and observed across subjects, cities, and countries. Tracing both Stewart's explorations of life on the road and the trajectory of his stylistic journey, the exhibition brings together a comprehensive visual autobiography through over 100 black-and-white and color photographs as well as a selection of cameras from Stewart's personal archives. Frank Stewart's Nexus explores Stewart's avid experimentation and numerous subjects over the course of half a century, including aspects and rituals of Black culture, trips to Africa and Cuba, and music. As the senior staff photographer for Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for 30 years, Stewart captured both public performances and candid, personal moments, including well-known photographs of jazz legends Miles Davis, Ahmad Jamal, and Wynton Marsalis. Frank Stewart's Nexus also provides a window into less-explored aspects of Stewart's practice, including his more abstract and painterly Drawings series, inspired by his travels. Color has dominated Stewart's photography for the past two decades, and he has also increased the sizes for many images. In more recent images, he captures the ever-changing landscape and environmental catastrophes. At the center of his varied practice is a familiarity Stewart creates with the people and places that inhabit his works." -- https://www.phillipscollection.org

Table of Contents:

• Some few choruses for the excellent Frank Stewart / Wynton Marsalis
• Directors' Foreword / Dorothy Kosinski and Benjamin T. Simons
• Introduction / Mary Schmidt Campbell
• Haunted by the medium / Ruth Fine and Fred Moten
• Improvising on a riff: a conversation with Frank Stewart / Ruth Fine and Frank Stewart
• Feast for the senses / Fred Moten
• Frank Stewart's international lens / Cheryl Finley.

Contributors:

Stewart, Frank , photographer, interviewee

Fine, Ruth, 1941- , contributor, interviewer

Moten, Fred , contributor

Marsalis, Wynton, 1961- , writer of supplementary textual content

Kosinski, Dorothy M. , writer of foreword

Simons, Benjamin T. , writer of foreword

Campbell, Mary Schmidt , writer of introduction

Finley, Cheryl , writer of supplementary textual content

Phillips Collection , host institution, issuing body, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb

Baker Museum (Naples, Fla.) , host institution, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his

Telfair Museums (Savannah, Ga.) , host institution, issuing body, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Stewart, Frank — Exhibitions

Stewart, Frank — Interviews

Street photography — Exhibitions

Hurricane Katrina, 2005, in art — Exhibitions

Jazz musicians — Pictorial works — Exhibitions

Landscape photography — Exhibitions

Portrait photography — Exhibitions

Environmental disasters — Pictorial works — Exhibitions

Black people — Portraits — Exhibitions

Photography, Artistic — 20th century — Exhibitions

Photography, Artistic — 21st century — Exhibitions

Stewart, Frank

Photography, Artistic

1900-2099

Hurricane Katrina (2005) in art

Jazz musicians

Landscape photography

Portrait photography

Environmental disasters

Black people

Street photography

Genres:

Exhibition catalogs

Pictorial works

Interviews

Portraits

General Notes:

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Phillips Collection, June 10-September 3, 2023; Arts--Naples, The Baker Museum, October 14, 2023-January 7, 2024; and Telfair Museums, February 9-May 12, 2024.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-200) and index.

Physical Description:

207 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm

Physical Characteristics:

portrait; illustration

Call Numbers:

TR647 .S817 2023

ISBNs:

9780847899357 (hardcover)
0847899357 (hardcover)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2022949899

OCLC Numbers:

1373397870