Artist Thomas Allen Harris, who’s shown work at the Whitney Biennial and the Museum of Modern Art, brings his sensibility to an ambitious documentary series on black identity. The varied […]
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Identity and Affirmation In California
Identity and Affirmation: African American Post War Photography Currently on Exhibition at: California State University, Northridge Art Galleries Identity and Affirmation: African American Post War Photography consists of 145 images […]
Jules Allen on Gleason’s Gym
It wasn’t exactly a sucker punch, but Jules Allen was struck by what he found upon entering into Gleason’s Gym: sweat-soaked champs and punch-drunk pugs. Gangsters and posers. Men with […]
Through A Lens Darkly Documentary nears completion
“Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People” is a feature length, documentary and multimedia outreach project that explores how African American communities have used the […]
Martin Luther King: A Dream Fulfilled
A Dream Fulfilled, Martin Luther King Memorial Opens Now we know: The arc of the moral universe is long, but it leads to a picturesque glade beside the Tidal Basin, […]
Exhibit at Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art
Photographic Portraits of People Opens at Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art An exhibition featuring more than 100 original photographic portraits of people of color opened yesterday at the Nasher […]
SNEAK PREVIEW: Through A Lens Darkly
Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People is a two-hour film that will explore the role of photography, since its rudimentary beginnings in the 1840s, […]
“For All the World To See” Featured in Washington Post
“For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights” was organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, […]
Dred Scott: Picturing a Nineteenth Century Icon
This article addresses the visual image of Dred Scott in the public imagination particularly through the photographic portrait of Scott made in 1857. Limited by the not yet developed technology […]
Norman Baynard Collection featured in “New York Times”
African-American families have been descending on the San Diego History Center for the last few months, leafing through mid-20th-century photographs of their ancestors and relatives. The History Center owns about […]