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About this blog

DIA associate curator Nancy Barr posts about Detroit area and DIA community-related photography events, exhibitions, and artists. From time-to-time, guest bloggers will join Barr. The site will also be home to announcements on upcoming online photo competitions and other photo-related and cultural offerings and events.

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    13 responses to “About”

    1. Cherie Happy | February 21, 2010 at 3:05 am |

      Want to be informed of new posts!

      Thanks!

    2. David Cherry | May 20, 2010 at 4:53 pm |

      Hi Nancy,

      I found your blog!

      d

    3. photocurator | May 20, 2010 at 6:44 pm |

      Hi David – Good to see you’re out here in wordpress land. Nancy

    4. gilda snowden | August 26, 2010 at 8:16 pm |

      I love the blog!

    6. John Wright | September 8, 2010 at 12:23 am |

      I’m so glad that I found your blog.

    7. nancy barr photocurator | September 8, 2010 at 1:31 am |

      Hi John – Glad you found me – long time no see! Nancy

    8. Richard Haskin | November 17, 2010 at 3:17 pm |

      Hi Nancy,
      Please add me to your subsribers list.
      thanks,
      Richard

    9. nancy barr photocurator | December 9, 2010 at 6:15 pm |

      Hi Richard, I will add you to our eblast list – nice to meet you at the members’ event last month. Nancy

    10. AnnMarie Mannino | May 16, 2011 at 8:13 pm |

      Hello Nancy! Your blog is new to me. I’ll be following and good luck. Hope you and yours are well.

    11. Wesley Aelbrecht | May 26, 2011 at 3:51 pm |

      Dear Nancy Watson Barr,

      Great Blog! I discovered it when I was searching for an article you published in 2000: “Truth, memory, and the American working-class city: Robert Frank in Detroit and at the Rouge”, in Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts v. 76 no. 1/2 (2002) p. 62-74.

      However, I don’t seem to have access through my university, University College London, where I am at this moment a PhD candidate in the Architectural History and Theory department. Would it be possible to send me the article as a PDF?

      Kind regards,
      Wesley Aelbrecht

    12. nancy barr photocurator | May 28, 2011 at 7:27 pm |

      Dear Wesley,

      Thanks for this note. I will contact you by email and get you a copy of the Bulletin article on Robert Frank. We’re on holiday here through Monday, May 30 – so I’ll get to it after that!

      Regards,
      Nancy

    13. Maik Schlüter | August 18, 2012 at 7:35 am |

      Dear Nancy,
      your blog is very very good. I discovered it when I was doing my research about an american photographer called Jerry Berndt.

      I woluld be very happy to have a discussion with you about his work:

      OLD MOLE-Politics, Protest and Everyday Culture

      America between 1967 and 1977. The American photographer Jerry Berndt (*1943) accompanied and documented this ten-year period like no other. Berndt was himself active in the anti-Vietnam War activities of the 1960s. He created an extensive sociodocumentary body of work that, beyond any simple polarizations, allows in-depth insight into the social constitution of those years.

      Jerry Berndt photographed a lot in Detroit.

      You like to see more? Please have a look at my website.

      I looking forward to your answer!
      very best

      Maik

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