by local artist John Clark Mayden. Bronze Winner of the Foreword
INDIES Award for Photography by FOREWORD Reviews Baltimore native
John Clark Mayden's photographs are distinctive to the city and
specific to black life there, lingering on the front stoops and in
the postage-stamp backyards of Charm City row houses. But these
pictures are far from nostalgic. Informed by the photographer's
deep commitment to both social justice and storytelling, they strip
Baltimore of pretense and illusion and show the city's veins.
Baltimore Lives gathers 101 of Mayden's best photographs in print
for the first time. Taken between 1970 and 2012, these photos
illuminate the experiences of life throughout the predominantly
African American city, capturing the relaxed intimacy of community,
family, and the comfort of home in contrast to the harsh sting of
social injustice, poverty, and crime. In Mayden's work, we meet
people who are not expecting us. We bear witness to their
lives-their emotions, gestures, and faces that often reveal more
than they conceal. But regardless of the camera's presence, people
go on waiting for the bus, catching a breeze on their front steps,
slogging through the snow to work and school, and, every so often,
returning the photographer's gaze with a sly grin, a backward
glance, a curious frown. Including a brief biography of John Clark
Mayden written by his sister, Ruth W. Mayden, and an essay by art
historian Michael Harris on how Mayden's work fits into larger
trends of black photography, Baltimore Lives is a stunning visual
history of the spatial and human elements that together make
Baltimore's inner city.
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