A Picture Gallery of the Soul

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-520-38806-2
Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 921 g

A vivid and moving celebration of the ways that Black Americans have shaped and been shaped by photography, from its inception to the present day.

A Picture Gallery of the Soul presents the work of more than one hundred Black American artists whose practice incorporates the photographic medium. Organized by the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota, this group exhibition samples a range of photographic expressions produced over three centuries, from traditional photography to mixed media and conceptual art.

From the daguerreotypes made by Jules Lion in New Orleans in 1840 to the Instagram post of the Baltimore Uprising made by Devin Allen in 2015, photography has chronicled Black American life, and Black Americans have defined the possibilities of photography. Frederick Douglass recognized the quick, easy, and inexpensive reproducibility of photography and developed a theoretical framework for understanding its impact on public discourse, which he delivered as a series of four lectures during the Civil War. It has been widely acknowledged that Douglass, the subject of 160 photographic portraits and the most photographed American of the nineteenth century, anticipated that the history of American photography and the history of Black American culture and politics would be deeply intertwined. A Picture Gallery of the Soul honors the diverse visions of Blackness made manifest through the lens of photography.

Published in association with the Katherine E. Nash Gallery.

Exhibition dates:

Katherine E. Nash Gallery: September 13–December 10, 2022.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oransky, Howard

Weitere Mitwirkende

Milligan, Herman J.

Finley, Cheryl

nelson, crystal am

Rodney, Seph

Oransky, Howard

Willis, Deborah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstsammlung, Museen, Ausstellungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Foreword

Deborah Willis

Preface

Herman J. Milligan, Jr.

Preface

Howard Oransky

Mining the Archive of Black Life and Culture

Cheryl Finley

A Visual Politics of Black Pleasure

crystal am nelson

Why We Wear a Suit to Do the Work

Seph Rodney

Plates

Notes to Plates

Contributor Biographies

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Howard Oransky is Director of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, operated by the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is editor of Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta.