by Marie Pinkney | Dec 11, 2023 | Theorizing the archive, Theory & Practice, Uncategorized
Do you see yourself out there? Where do you see your likeness when you travel around the world? How do you know where you belong or where you’re going? It is often said that representation matters. Portrait photography is representation. It is proof that we...
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 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 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 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 Natalia Lopez | Jun 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
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