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Matinee: 'Alanna Airitam on W. Eugene Smith'
26 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 575th in our series of Saturday matinees today: Photographer Alanna Airitam on W. Eugene Smith.
Two weeks ago we featured Canadian photographer Ron Smid talking about his photograph Wild Cherry Blossoms. This week, we're on the other side of the frame as photographer Alanna Airitam talks about her favorite photograph in Etherton Gallery's summer show, Redux: Selections from The Photography Show presented by AIPAD.
Airitam talks about W. Eugene Smith's image, Untitled from the KKK Series (1951) and why it resonates with her. The 20 x 16-inch print is an early gelatin silver print.
As a photographer, Airitam is not your garden variety gsllery viewer. She can speak about eloquently about not just the composition, lighting and other formal qualities of an image but what makes it sing.
She herself has exhibited at the Center for Creative Photography, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. She has also showcased her art at prominent art fairs, while her work has been collected by institutions and individuals and displayed in galleries across the United States.
She is the co-founder of the Southwest Black Artists Network, an Oakwood Arts Board Member and Board Member for Medium Photo. Born in Queens, N.Y., Airitam now works and resides in Tucson, Arizona.