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AMALIA AMAKI (1949 - ) born to blow blue.
Cyanotype, printed on mixed media textile, with ruffled black lace, framed central soft pillow, 1991. 362x597 mm; 14 1/4x23 1/2 inches. Signed, titled and dated in ink, lower right.
Provenance: private collection, Atlanta.
In her 2005 mid-career retrospective, Boxes, Buttons and the Blues, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, many of Amaki's jazz singer cyanotypes were exhibited including Bessie Smith in born to blow blue. Of jazz singers, Amaki stated "There is something about their honesty…when you think about them as a group, there is a particular honesty about how they express themselves. They really weren't ashamed of conveying in a way that was very natural or true to their experiences."
