This course explores the ways in which objects and material culture embody personal narrative. Moving back and forth from ephemeral traces of events and experiences to the culturally invested luxury goods that create legacy to the objects that facilitate daily life, this class will use, as its primary references, examples that draw from queer and African American cultures to underscore the potential of objects to tell the stories that not only reflect majority traditions and experiences but those of the disenfranchised, the details of whose lives are often obscured. In addition to readings that will provide background for class discussion, student will be asked to play the roles of detectives, archeologists, and curators at various sites around New York City. Each student will also be asked to create an annotated material record that reveals the public and private lives of one individual. That record may consist of texts, objects or any variety of media chosen or designed by the student. This blogs serves as an archive for the work done in the context of this course and related materials that become relevant to this exploration.

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Barneys NY Spring 2014 campaign

For the Spring 2014 campaign, Barneys featured 17 transgender people whose unique personal stories were shared in a series of short films called Brothers, Sisters, Sons & Daughters. Barneys also donated 10% of all sales from its flagship stores nationwide on February 11th to the LGBT Center in New York City and the National Center for Transgender Equality. 


Also shot by iconic photographer Bruce Weber in New York City, many were photographed and filmed surrounded by family, friends, and loved ones. By depicting these human connections, Weber was able to represent both the struggles and triumphs a trans person may face in relation to their gender identity. Barneys New York is proud to support the transgender community by telling a few of their incredible stories.

Links to video- http://thewindow.barneys.com/brothers-sisters-sons-daughters-the-film/

Also the story of two friends in the series- http://thewindow.barneys.com/brothers-sisters-sons-daughters/

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