by Alanah Swindle | Dec 22, 2023 | Black Portrait Photograph Collection, Theorizing the archive, Unknown Location
Creating pictorial genealogies was the means by which one could ensure against the losses of the past. . . .They provided a necessary narrative, a way for us to enter history without words. –bell hooks1 At the end of October 2023, our class, “Curating the Hidden...
by Alanah Swindle | Dec 22, 2023 | Black Portrait Photograph Collection, Texas, Tintypes, Unknown Location
In taking care to unpack the materiality of a given photograph, who do we leave behind? Is it possible to acknowledge all the hands involved in the process? “The photographer’s thumbprint, a common artifact, is in the lower right corner.”1 The above quote is culled...
