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Stacy Kranitz Keynote Lecture
Friday, October 16 - 5:30PM to 7:00PM
The Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater
For the past seventeen years, Stacy Kranitz has been making photographs in the Appalachian region of the United States in order to explore how photography can solidify or demystify stereotypes, and interpret memory and history in a region where the medium has failed to provide an equitable depiction of its people. Rather than reinforcing conventional views of Appalachia as a poverty-ridden region, or by selectively dwelling on positive aspects of the place and its people to offset problematic stereotypes, her work insists that each of these options are equally problematic ways of looking at place.
In her latest work, Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down, she examines the evolving representation of the Appalachian mountaineer, tracing how poverty in the region has been constructed, challenged, and reimagined over time. Through historical archives and contemporary images her work explores how the camera has served as a witness to hardship, a tool of propaganda, an instrument of oppression, and, at times, a vehicle for redemption.
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