by Lyric Lott | Nov 13, 2023 | Black Portrait Photograph Collection, Texas, Theorizing the archive, Uncategorized
The bright flash of a light bulb, the chafe of a stiff collar, the quiet clink of glass plates. What would the sitters of this portrait photograph have seen, felt, heard, and smelt when this photo was taken? A few weeks ago, I found myself walking down the...
by Lyric Lott | Nov 10, 2023 | Black Portrait Photograph Collection, Unknown Location
Men’s, women’s, boys’, and girls’. Anyone who has ever shopped at a clothing store is familiar with the typical categories these shops contain, with aisles clearly demarcating the different sections like traffic-filled streets on a city street plan. Yet how many of us...
by Hannah Grantham | Nov 8, 2023 | Black Portrait Photograph Collection, Texas, Uncategorized, Unknown Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. “Mrs. Annie Albrittan, who does washing in her home in Woodville, Greene County, Georgia, November 1941.” The...
by Leah Mackall | Nov 8, 2023 | Black Portrait Photograph Collection, Theorizing the archive
Photography stands at the crossroads of history and memory.[1] Throughout the semester in “Curating Hidden Collections & The Black Archive” we’ve tried to come to terms with the varied ways we can interpret and present information on people we’ve never met and...
by Hannah Grantham | Nov 8, 2023 | Black Portrait Photograph Collection, Texas, Uncategorized
Albumen photographic print mounted onto a cabinet card created at W.J. Cassaday’s photography studio in Waco, Texas. This is a story of Franklin C. Wilkerson (1897-1964) of Waco, Texas. What follows is an attempt to give a name to a boy found in the archive and...
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...
