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Pat Ward Williams is an African American photographer whose work often engages with the complexities of race, gender, and history. In addition to her smaller-scale photographs and installations, she has designed three public artworks in Los Angeles. Williams holds a BFA from Moore College of Art and Design (1982) and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (1987).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fsu.edu/cvdb/PWILLIAMS.rtf )〕 ==Work== One of Williams’ best known works is ''Accused/Blowtorch/Padlock'' (1986), which consists of an image of a black man tied to a tree (originally published in ''Life'' magazine in 1937 and not attributed to a specific photographer) surrounded by text expressing the artist’s reaction to this image. The text poses questions that the viewer can consider, such as “Can you be BLACK and look at this?,” “How can this photograph exist?” and “Could Hitler show pics of the Holocaust just to keep the JEWS in line?” The text ends with the phrase “Somebody do something.” Williams has explained her intent in the work and how that relates to the title of the piece: “I force the viewer to look at what is really going on by dissecting the important body of information and by directing with text what the viewer should notice: the tied hands (accused), the scarred back (blowtorch), and the lock, chain, and tree (padlock).” Art historian Dora Apel has argued that in including the text of her own response to the image, Williams “attempts to define for the viewer the relationship between violence, spectacle, and public representation.”〔 ''Accused/Blowtorch/Padlock'' has been included in exhibitions such as ''The Decade Show,'' a large-scale collaborative exhibition by the New Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, and The Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art as well as in ''Art, Women, California 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersections'' at the San Jose Museum of Art.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://archive.newmuseum.org/index.php/Detail/Entity/Show/entity_id/2056 )〕 Williams was part of the Photo-Active Feminist Visiting Artists 1998-99 Series, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and The University of Michigan School of Art and Design and Women's Studies Program. The group of artists, which also included Paula Allen, Barbara Kruger, Susan Meiselas, Connie Samaras, Kathy Constantinides, Wendy Ewald, and Marilyn Zimmerman, were chosen for their engagement with social and political issues in their work and traveled to the University of Michigan to present their work to students and the community.〔 In 1992, Williams published the exhibition catalog ''Probable Cause'', which contained a series of photographs shown at the Goldie Paley Gallery at Moore College of Art and Design. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pat Ward Williams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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