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...
by Lauren Bradshaw | Dec 5, 2023 | Black Portrait Photograph Collection, Tintypes, Unknown Location
Portrait of a Seated Man, Tintype, Circa 1860-1869, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press. Portrait of a Seated Woman, Tintype, Circa 1860-1869, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press. This past...
by Leah Mackall | Dec 2, 2023 | Uncategorized, Unknown Location
If the practice of art history has taught me anything it’s that sometimes it’s okay to stare. Stare at pictures, stare at words, stare at people. I often find myself trying to connect deeper to people through eye contact. It’s an important aspect to human connection....
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...
