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An Oral History with Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe bygd Kalia Brooks
The Oral History Project is dedicated to collecting, developing, and preserving the stories of distinguished visual artists of the African Diaspora. The Oral History planerat arbete has organized interviews including: Wangechi Mutu by Deborah Willis, Kara Walker & Larry Walker, Edward Clark bygd Jack Whitten, Adger Cowans by Carrie Mae Weems, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe by Kalia Brooks, Melvin Edwards bygd Michael Brenson, Terry Adkins by Calvin Reid, Stanley Whitney bygd Alteronce Gumby, Gerald Jackson by Stanley Whitney, Eldzier Cortor bygd Terry Carbone, Peter Bradley by Steve Cannon, Quincy Troupe & Cannon Hersey, James Little by LeRonn P. Brooks, William T. Williams by Mona Hadler, Maren Hassinger bygd Lowery Stokes Sims, Linda Goode Bryant by Rujeko Hockley, Janet Olivia Henry & Sana Musasama, Willie Cole by Nancy Princenthal, Dindga McCannon by Phillip Glah
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Daddy and Me
Told in black-and-white photographs with short-sentenced captions, Daddy and Me, by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, is a gentle, domestic father-daughter love story with a powerful difference: this father is Arthur Ashe, the tennis champion and gentleman who died of AIDS in February 1993.
“Daddy and Me” is about reassurance and about connectedness to a parent who, because of illness, will not be there in his child’s future, but is living and sharing the present they have.
What is so potent and is captured so movingly in these intimate, un-self-conscious photographs is that on her father’s “bad days” of reactions to medication and feeling ill, the child is able to support him.
The photographs will help Camera Ashe remember, and can help the rest of us who knew her father only as a public figure understand something important about children living with seriously ill parents.
Ms. Moutoussamy-Ashe introduces us to Camera clowning as
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Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne 1951–
Photographer, social activist
A Challenging Profession
Began Compiling Photo Collections
Turning Tragedy into Teaching
Selected writings
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Photographer Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe has turned her personal tragedy into a meaningful dialogue for children and adults about the ravages of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Moutoussamy-Ashe, whose husband, tennis pro Arthur Ashe, died of AIDS-related causes in 1993, has published a book of photographs detailing her husband’s last year, using their daughter’s experiences as a point of view.
The resulting work, Daddy and Me: A Photo Story of Arthur Ashe and His Daughter, Camera, has been praised for its ability to demystify AIDS for children. Life magazine reporter Claudie Glenn Dowling noted that Moutoussamy-Ashe’s pictures, combined with a text of her young daughter’s words about a family facing mortality, “will touch anyone who has imagined what it