Photo Collection: Anne Porter Modelling 1950s

Anne Porter Modelling 1950s, originally uploaded by olympia2x.

This image is part of a set of photographs of Anne Porter at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjsoulpictures/sets/72157623624153679/show/

Photo Collection: Anne Porter & Yvonne Mullings Modelling in the 50s

Anne Porter Modelling 1950s, originally uploaded by olympia2x.

These were two of my grandmother's models, her particular favorites. They are wearing dresses designed by Mme. Willi Posey in the 1950s, maybe mid-50s. I love the contrast in their height. They were both such lovely sweet women. Verna Photographers. Brooklyn 10017.

Photo Collection: De Facto Segregation by Faith Ringgold

De Facto Segregation by Faith Ringgold, originally uploaded by olympia2x.  All rights reserved.  Copyright Faith Ringgold 1994. 

Faith did this cartoon for The Nation in 1994 in connection with the anniversary of the Supreme Court Decision on Brown versus the Board of Education. They paid for it but chose not to print it. It thus became one of my prized possessions. I love it more and more as time goes on. It is very particularly the Ringgold brand of humor. This is also what I mean by the idea that some pictures talk, and some people talk in pictures. Maybe we should do this more.

Photo Collection: Grandma, Teddy and Faith 1980s

Grandma, Teddy and Faith , originally uploaded by olympia2x. All rights reserved.  Faith RInggold Collection.  Photo by C. Love. 

Faith and her grandchildren in Harlem in the 1980s. These photographs are part of the series taken at the time of the Change Performances and Story Quilts. Photo by C. Love.

Photo Collection: Faith looking over Harlem 1980s

Faith on Roof at 345 Photo by Ellen Eisenman 1987, originally uploaded by olympia2x.

Photo by Ellen Eisenman, 1987. Taken from the roof of 345. Harlem was composed by a desolate landscape then but Faith was always hopeful, always positive. She is the peak of her weight loss powers.

Photo Collection: Baby Faith, Grandma and Teddy 1980s--Part of the Change

Baby Faith, Grandma and Teddy, originally uploaded by olympia2x.

At 345 West 145th Street in Harlem with her granddaughters Faith and Teddy. 1987. Photo by C. Love.

Photo Collection: Change 1987 Performance Images

Faith and her Collaborator, Artist Assistant Lisa Yee

Image including Video Camera Man.  What became of that video I wonder?

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Faith dancing with Bernice Steinbaum and Baby Faith in 1987 at her Change Performance in Soho.  Baby Faith is about 5.  Photograph by Clarissa Sligh.  All rights reserved.  Copyright Clarissa Sligh.

Photo Collection: Faith Ringgold's Change 1980s VII

Faith in La Jolla, California.  1987.  Photo by C. Love

More of the performance of Change by Faith Ringgold.  In the foreground, plastic bags filled with water equivalent to 100 pounds of weight. Celebratory dance at the end with Barbara and her two children, Faith in the dress and Teddy in her arms.  1987.

Faith reading from her text in the Change Performance (1987).  Seated in the audience is Lisa Yi, her artist assistant and collaborator then.   Photograph by Clarissa Sligh.  All rights reserved. 

Faith in La Jolla, California at an earlier stage in her weight loss program.  Perhaps 1986.  Photo by Lind Shlecht.  All rights reserved. 

Photo Collection: Excerpt from my Ms Cover of 1979

Photo by Anthony Barboza, originally uploaded by olympia2x.

The excerpt is a thing of beauty to read.  Perfect in every respect except that it softens a number of the rougher edges, in particular the critique of white women.  The other edge it softened, which was much appreciated, was its critique of various black writers including Nikki Giovanni and Angela Davis.  I love both of these ladies, always did in truth.  They are  fierce. The picture is heaven although  I know it wasn't heaven for Mom.  She felt like she got the shaft.  I KNOW I did.

Photo Collection: Marion, My Counselor 1960s

MarionCamp, originally uploaded by olympia2x.

This lovely lady was my first counselor at camp and I adored her. She was sweet, gentle and pretty.

Photo Collection: Baby Michele 1950s

Baby Michele, originally uploaded by olympia2x.

This picture of Aunt Barbara represents very much the way she was, somebody who confronted the camera, who was there to meet it. She adored me from my birth, she had told me endless times. In 1952 on Edgecombe Avenue in Harlem, what a beautiful baby I was with a beautiful aunt. Beauty was a pretty big thing for Aunt Barbara and God had blessed her with great beauty for much of her life. Here she is, somehow, very much as I remember her from the 50s. And me as the fat faced, big headed baby, alert and alive to the attentions of these beautiful women. This may have been the day upon which I was christened at Abyssinian Baptist Church with Mr. Morrison as my godfather and Aunt Doris as my godmother. Momma T had come from Guam in particular to see me. Everybody know a man's child, my mother reports she said upon seeing me. My mother was only 22 and already in need of a divorce from her musician husband, Earl Wallace, 25 years old.

Photo Collection: Mom and Dad in 2009

Mom and Dad in 2009 at IHop.  Pictures taken by their loving granddaughter, Faith Wallace Gadsden.  Just brilliant!

Photo Collection: MJ with Her Favorite Model Anne Porter1950s

In the 50s, MJ had a particular favorite among her models.  This was Anne Porter.  The two of them sitting in the livingroom at 363 Edgecombe Avenue. Photographer TBA.

Photo Collection: MJ and Me on The Beach at Setauket 1980s

These were good times, the summer of 1980 or so with Momma Jones (MJ) and Pop-Pop on the Beach at Setauket.  MJ married Pop-Pop, her teenage sweetheart, in the late 70s perhaps because her cataracts made her feel as though she needed a shoulder to lean on.  I am 28 and the author of Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman.  My sister Barbara, I suspect, is the photographer in this case.  By this time, MJ had begun to wear a blonde wig, much to the consternation of her daughter Faith.

Photo Collection: Mom at the Gala

Photograph taken by Anthony C. Dominiczak. All images property of the Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers.

These photos belong to IWA.

Photo Collection: Michele on the Last Day of School

Michele Wallace., originally uploaded by Stacy in wonderland..

Stacy took pictures yesterday on one of our terraces at CCNY. He asked me to show the disapproval I felt when a student had said something ridiculous. I don't know whether this was one of those but in any case, this is me with my hair blowing in the wind in May of 2009 at the ripe old age of 57.

Photo Collection: Faith with her Mom

Faith with her Mom, originally uploaded by olympia2x.

I just love this picture of Momma Jones and Little Faith. Reproduced a lot but it is still great. About 1933.

Photo Collection: THE FRENCH COLLECTION BY FAITH RINGGOLD

The French Collection Number 8:

On the Beach at St. Tropez,

Acrylic on canvas, tie-dyed quilt frame

74 x 92 inches

Copyright Faith Ringgold, 1991.

The French Collection Number 7:

Picasso's Studio, 1991

Acrylic on canvas, tie-dyed quilt frame

73 x 68 inches

Worcester Art Museum

Worcester, Massachusetts

Charlotte E. Buffington Fund

Copyright Faith Ringgold, 1991

French Collection Number Five:

Matisse's Model, 1991

Acrylic on canvas, tie-dyed quilt frame

73.5 x 90 inches

Baltimore Museum of Art

Baltimore, Maryland

Copyright Faith Ringgold 1991

French Collection Number 6:

Matisse's Chapel, 1991

Acrylic on canvas, tie-dyed quilt frame

74 x 79.5 inches

Collection of George Wein

Copyright Faith Ringgold 1991

French Collection Number Nine:

Jo Baker's Birthday, 1993

Acrylic on canvas, tie-dyed quilt frame

73 x 78 inches, St Louis Art Museum

St. Louis, Missouri

Copyright Faith Ringgld 1991

French Collection Number Three:

Picnic at Giverny, 1991

Acrylic on canvas, tie-dyed quilt frame

Private Collection

Copyright Faith Ringgold 1991

See "The French Collection: Momma Jones, Mommy Fay and Me." In Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts edited by Dan Cameron, University of California Press 1998. Forgot to mention that this is a pretty expensive book if you buy from the University of California, which is where this link goes. The price is $35 or so at Amazon. Of course, there's shipping. Also, for more on this topic see The Mona Lisa Interview at http://www.faithringgold.com.

Photo Collection: My Photo Sets on Flickr and Zenfolio

 Zenfolio Collection

Flickr Collection

I am including here links to the family photos collections I have uploaded onto Flickr and Zenfolio for reference.  All of these photos are limited in their use by the copyright of Faith Ringgold.  They are currently available at these addresses on Flickr for research and/or genealogical investigation, primarily not in large formats.

We have many more but this is a healthy group made up of photos from the teens through the 90s of myself, my sister, my Aunt, my mother, dad and grandmother Mme. Willi Posey, as well as some reproductions of the art of Faith Ringgold.

Photo Collection: Susan Shannon circa 1910

Susan Shannon circa 1910, originally uploaded by olympia2x.

Susan Shannon was the great-great-grandmother of Faith Ringgold, the great-grandmother of Willi Posey and my great-great-great-grandmother.  In this photo, which may have been taken by Uncle Cardoza, she was almost 100 years old.  Born in 1917, she surely had many memories of slavery.