A couple more items from the news:
1. New Orleans-based photographer William Widmer is featured on the New Yorker magazine's website with a portfolio of his work A Cajun Courir, documenting Mardi Gras festivities in western coastal Louisiana.
This is a very un-New Orleans version of Mardi Gras.
The New Yorker describes Courir de Mardi Gras as "a ceremonial run that is believed to have its roots in Medieval French begging customs. Participants travel the countryside on horseback and on foot, soliciting ingredients for a communal gumbo that is prepared at the end of the run."
Some stunning images by Widmer on view here, well worth your attention.
2. Honorary Southern Photographer Dawoud Bey has several images in this year's Whitney Biennial, including the diptych Maxine Adams and Amelia Maxwell, from Bey's portfolio The Birmingham Project (see above).
Bey's work, including his formal portrait of Barack Obama, is on exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art, at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, in Manhattan, through May 25th, 2014.
Good to see Southern photographers, and Southern subjects, on view in NYC.
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