Exhibition Review: Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch

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Review| June 01 2021 Exhibition Review: Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch. Gallery 825. Los Angeles: January 23–February 19, 2021. Judith B. Herman Judith B. Herman Judith B. Herman is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles County who has written on art for the Los Angeles Times, Slate, and other publications. Her website is www.judyherman.com. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2021) 48 (2): 139–143. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2021.48.2.139 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Judith B. Herman; Exhibition Review: Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch. Afterimage 1 June 2021; 48 (2): 139–143. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2021.48.2.139 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAfterimage Search In an intimate alcove within the Los Angeles Art Association’s Gallery 825, the three walls were papered, nearly floor to ceiling, with mostly black-and-white framed photographs of mostly Black people and a few white people, captured at work or play, as if by some family shutterbug intent on memorializing each moment, no matter how mundane. In pictures spanning more than forty years, photographer Lisa McCord documented people of the small farming community of Rotan, in the Mississippi Delta of northeastern Arkansas, focusing on her grandparents, who owned a cotton farm, and the workers they employed. The sixty-two photographs that were in the exhibition are mostly McCord’s work, taken primarily in the early 1980s. For historical context, the artist also included several pictures of her family by an unknown photographer. The exhibition was titled Rotan Switch after a local landmark, the railroad switch at her grandfather’s farm where bales of cotton... You do not currently have access to this content.