The photos range from optimistic pride to mourning sadness. He was found innocent of murder and charged with assault and battery. The ironies continue with two photos summarizing the Boston area in the mid-'80s when NU's Michael Dukakis was governor. With Dukakis, NU's distinguished professor of political science, spending the winter quarter at UCLA, scheduling the exhibit during Black History Month was a smart idea. The exhibit isn't all serious issues.
Many subjects are playful individuals.
Like Ritts' work, these subjects are outsiders the untouchables. Next to this customer sits artist Glendena McCrae with glossy lipstick and a revealing blouse that shines from light. She's about to stand and walk away in Richard LaHart's 1980 photo. In 1979 Steve Stone captured the mug of Sunny Jo White, program manager and founder of Boston's first disco station, KISS 108. He unearthed this area's disco from gay clubs onto the radio dial.