Abstract This article is an interview with Clarence Major, author, poet, and artist. He has won multiple awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in the Fine Arts from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and an International Literary Hall of Fame award from Chicago State University. In this interview, Major discusses the differences between critical writing and creative writing, sources of inspiration, nonconformism, travel, and politics in art.
In this interview, noted photographer Harry Gamboa Jr. discusses his work with Jeremiah Axelrod. Topics include the influence of avant garde cinema, advertising, and mass media on Gamboa’s aesthetic, brutal institutional and cultural prejudice in mid-twentieth century Los Angeles, and his many efforts over the years to counteract those ubiquitous propagandistic negative media images to make visible a much fuller spectrum of Chicano cultural creation and authorship.
