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Matinee: Ken Light
19 October 2024
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 574th in our series of Saturday matinees today: Ken Light.
In this brief 47 second clip, photographer Ken Light tslks to Bronx Documentary Center founder and creative director Mike Kamber about the vital role of community-based organizations like the Center.
As short as it is, it covers four generations in less than a minute, so we won't keep you from it.
But just in case it leaves you hungry for more, we found this older piece in which Light illuminates what he learned from Richard Avedon about the (amusing difference between documentary photographs and family photographs:
Ken Light | American Stories:1969-1995 is on view at the Bronx Documentary Center through Nov. 17.