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1. SIPGPO_180112_01.JPG: Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant), 1743-1807 Convinced that victory for the American colonists meant disaster for Native people, the Mohawk warrior Thayendaneagea (also known as Joseph Brant) led Loyalist troops in a number of devastating campaign against rebel forces during the American Revolutionary War. At the war's conclusion, Brant journeyed to England to remind George III of his promise to compensate the Iroquois Confederacy for their military service and forfeited land. Brant's old friend Huge Percy, the Duke of Northumberland, who had fought beside him in America, commissioned this imposing likeness from the American artist Gilbert Stuart, who was then based in London. In the portrait, Brant is shown wearing two gifts from the king: a crescent-shaped silver plate (known as a gorget) and a peace medal bearing the monarch's profile. Brant's diplomatic efforts resulted in the award of 675,000 acres on the Grand River in Ontario, Canada, where he settled more than 1,800 Native American and white Loyalists. Gilbert Stuart, 1786 Private collection
2. SIPGPO_180112_26.JPG: Yarrow Mamout, c 1736-1823 Yarrow Mamout's remarkable story testifies to the contradictory attitudes toward slavery, the African diaspora, and Islam in the early years of the American Republic. When he was approximately sixteen, Yarrow was forcibly taken from his educated family in 1752, working first on a plantation near present-day Takoma Park, Maryland and then in Georgetown, Washington DC. Gaining his freedom after forty-four years, Yarrow remained in Georgetown -- living among the approximately four hundred freed slaves there -- working at many different tasks: making brick and charcoal, loading ships, weaving baskets. With his earnings, Yarrow bought stock in the local bank and, in 1800, a log home (now demolished) on Dent Place, in the garden of which he would pray toward Mecca. James Alexander Simpson, Georgetown University's first art instructor, painted this portrait amid rumors that Yarrow was a centenarian, which had turned him into a local celebrity of sorts. Indeed, for this reason, Charles Wilson Peale, portraitist of George Washington and other luminaries, had made a special two-day visit to Georgetown to paint the "chearfull" Yarrow a few years earlier. Upon his death, Yarrow was remembered as a pious Muslim and for his industriousness and determination in the face of adversity. James Alexander Simpson, 1822 Lent by Peabody Room, Georgetown Branch, District of Columbia Public Library
3. SIPGPO_180317_08.JPG: Robert Johnson, born 1946 Born Hickory, Mississippi Robert Johnson is one of the most important television and entertainment industry businessmen of recent times, not least because he is African American. After graduating from the University of Illinois, Johnson held political and communications jobs in Washington, D.C. Seizing a business opportunity provided by the emerging cable market and serving his own community, Johnson launched Black Entertainment Television (BET) in 1979. The network was a hit, becoming the first majority African American enterprise listed on the New York Stock Exchange and selling for a reported three billion dollars in 2001. Johnson remained as BET's head until 2006. He has subsequently devoted himself to politics, finance, philanthropy, and one-time ownership of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats (the name was a play on Johnson's first name), which is referenced in Simmie Knox's portrait. Simmie Knox, 2006
4. SIPGPO_180317_14.JPG: Fab 5 Freddy Fred Brathwaite, born 1959 Between the late 1970s and the early 2000s, hip-hop developed from a New York City urban subculture of African American and Puerto Rican youth into a powerful industry that had become the most widely listened-to music genre internationally. Fred Brathwaite, aka Fab 5 Freddy, was instrumental to this process. Coming out of the street art scene during the 1970s, which included luminaries like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, Brathwaite derived his nickname from his association with the Fabulous 5 graffiti group that painted the sides of the city's subways. Through graffiti exhibitions that he curated in the galleries and rock clubs of downtown Manhattan, Fab 5 Freddy helped connect street culture with the city's art scene. In 1988 he became the host of MTV's first foray into rap: Yo! MTV Raps. Jane Dickson painted this portrait in 1982, the same year she co-produced the hip-hop cult movie Wild Style with Fab 5 Freddy and Charlie Ahearn. Jane Dickson, 1982
5. SIPGPO_180317_28.JPG: Jim Morrison and the Doors With iconic recordings such as "Light My Fire" (1967) and "Riders on the Storm" (1971), the Doors -- led by charismatic wild child and principal vocalist Jim Morrison (1943-1971; center) -- were among the most notable and controversial rock groups to emerge in the 1960s. Founded in Los Angeles in 1965 by Morrison and keyboardist Ray Manzarak (1939-2013; right), the band's roster also included guitarist Robby Krieger (born 1946; left) and drummer John Densmore (born 1944; not pictured). With the release of their first album Doors (1967), the group quickly developed a reputation for provocative songs that reflected darker strains within the counterculture movement. Morrison himself became a symbol of rebellion by engaging in outrageous, alcohol-fueled antics onstage that resulted in several arrests. Soon after stepping away from the Doors to "write and rest" in 1971, Morrison died in Paris of unspecified causes at the age of twenty-seven. Linda McCartney, 1967 (printed later) -- According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club, the list of musicians, like Jim Morrison, who died at the age of 27 is fairly long. It includes Robert Johnson, Brian Jones (Rolling Stones), Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson (Canned Heat), Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Pete Ham (Badfinger), Cecilia, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse.
6. SIPGPO_180908_01.JPG: The Chinese College at Hartford, Connecticut Yung Wing, 1828-1912 Unidentified artist, 1878
7. SIPGPO_181101_01.JPG: Tomb II, 1998-1999 Gregory Gillespie
8. SIPGPO_181101_27.JPG: George Lucas Born Modesto, California The creator of the epic science fiction series Star Wars and a joint creator of the Indiana Jones adventure series, George Lucas has combined a gift for high-drama storytelling with groundbreaking visual and sound effects to achieve Hollywood superstardom. Lucas studied filmmaking at the University of Southern California. One of his first feature films was American Graffiti, a 1973 coming-of-age drama that drew upon his early passion for automobile culture. In part because of its commercial success, Lucas began to develop the first Star Wars, which after its 1977 debut surpassed Steven Spielberg's Jaws to become the highest-grossing movie at that time. Andres Serrano's portrait shows the film director in 1999, the year that Stars Wars: The Phantom Menace was released. Andres Serrano, 1999 (printed 2009)
9. SIPGPO_181101_34.JPG: Fab 5 Freddy Fred Brathwaite Between the late 1970s and the early 2000s, hip-hop developed from a New York City urban subculture of African American and Puerto Rican youth into a powerful industry that had become the most widely listened-to music genre internationally. Fred Brathwaite, aka Fab 5 Freddy, was instrumental to this process. Coming out of the street art scene during the 1970s, which included luminaries like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, Brathwaite derived his nickname from his association with the Fabulous 5 graffiti group that painted the sides of the city's subways. Through graffiti exhibitions that he curated in the galleries and rock clubs of downtown Manhattan, Fab 5 Freddy helped connect street culture with the city's art scene. In 1988 he became the host of MTV's first foray into rap: Yo! MTV Raps. Jane Dickson painted this portrait in 1982, the same year she co-produced the hip-hop cult movie Wild Style with Fab 5 Freddy and Charlie Ahearn. Jane Dickson, 1982
10. SIPGPO_181101_40.JPG: Ann Landers Born Sioux City, Iowa Esther Pauline Friedman became the incredibly popular columnist Ann Landers in 1955, when she won a contest to write the syndicated newspaper feature "Ask Ann Landers." Throughout her five-decade career she changed the tone of advice columns from treacly to direct and candid. Her sympathetic guidance reached more than 90 million readers through more than 1,200 newspapers. She counseled people on everything from wedding etiquette and the correct height of toilet paper to more serious topics, including cancer and AIDS. Throughout much of her life she was in direct competition with her twin sister, who wrote her own column, "Dear Abby." The California artist Roger Robles painted Landers's portrait twice, in 1977 and 1988. Landers preferred this later portrait since it made her look "less starchy." She displayed the painting in her apartment until her death. Roger Robles, 1988
11. SIPGPO_181101_48.JPG: Judith Martin in Venice Judith Martin Since 1981, Judith Martin (born 1938)-known to all newspaper-reading Americans who care about proper etiquette as "Miss Manners"-and her husband, Robert, have traveled to Venice for extended stays several times a year. The gregarious Martins quickly made friends, among them Englishman Victor Edelstein and his Italian-born wife, artist Anna Maria Succi. Edelstein's initial career was as a couturier. Among his designs is the blue-velvet evening gown that Princess Diana wore to a White House dinner in 1985, the night she danced with John Travolta. Robert Martin commissioned Edelstein to paint his wife's portrait as a present for a forthcoming birthday. The numerous sittings took place over several years in the historic Palazzo Albrizzi. Edelstein selected the costume from among the clothes Martin owned. The books are two that Martin authored. The model of the vaporetto was made by a well-known Venetian craftsman. Victor Edelstein, 2008
12. SIPGPO_181101_61.JPG: Antonia Hernandez Barbara Carrasco, 2005
13. SIPGPO_181101_65.JPG: Beyonce Knowles Born Houston, Texas One of the most popular performers on the planet, Beyonc� is a megastar whose talent embraces singing, dancing, songwriting, acting, and entrepreneurship. Her music is generally R&B, but also includes pop, electropop, funk, hip-hop, and soul. The Recording Industry of America has recognized her as the Top Certified Artist of the 2000s. As of 2013, Beyonc� was the most-nominated woman in Grammy Award history, winning seventeen awards. She has also won twelve MTV Video Music Awards, a Billboard Millennium Award, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. An electrifying performer, she is known for highly choreographed dance routines that are as eye-popping as her costumes. The New Yorker has described Beyonc� as "the most important and compelling popular musician of the twenty-first century. Right now, she is the reigning national voice." Markus Klinko and Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri, 2003
14. SIPGPO_181101_76.JPG: Rudolfo Anaya "What I've wanted to do is compose the Chicano worldview -- the synthesis that shows our true mestizo identity -- and clarify it for my community and myself." Rudolfo Anaya achieved this in his first novel, Bless Me, Ultima (1972), a partly autobiographical story of a child growing during World War II, who through a curandera, or healer, begins to understand the mysteries of nature, morality, and spirituality. The novel was acclaimed for its lyricism, its alternation of English and Spanish, and its fresh way of relaying the Mexican American experience of the Southwest, where Native American, Mexican, Spanish, and Anglo cultures converge. His work is a fundamental text of Chicano literature and heralded a career that spanned four decades, which includes the award-winning books Tortuga (1979) and Alburquerque (1992), a reference to the original spelling of the city name. Similar to Anaya, El Paso artist Gaspar Enr�quez is lauded for community portraits that enhance our understanding of Chicano identity on the local, regional, and national stage. Gaspar Enriquez, 2016
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2018 photos: Overnight trips this year: (February) Greenville, NC for a Civil War Trust conference,, (May/June) Newport News, VA for another CWT conference, (July) my 13th consecutive trip to San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles), (August twice, October) three trips to New York City (including New York Comic-Con), and (September) Chicago, IL for my CWT swansong event. Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: about 535,000.
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