by Jamie Clifford | Nov 8, 2023 | Black Portrait Photograph Collection, Tintypes
Living in the digital age, I am not used to thinking of photographs as objects. I most commonly encounter photographs as images on a phone screen or computer monitor. While there are old photo albums at my parents’ house, they have spent the past ten or so years...
by Jamie Clifford | Nov 8, 2023 | Black Portrait Photograph Collection, Texas
Recto: a photograph of a baby — chubby limbs not quite still for his portrait, gaze curious but unfocused — nestled in a fur rug atop a rattan chair. Verso: “Cecil Allen” scrawled in pencil. Beneath it, possibly written in a different hand: “Dead.” Who was Cecil...
