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Hidden portraits: rare photos of African American life get a spotlight | The Guardian

African American History, Black History ... Posted by: KOLUMN Magazine Staff

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Hidden portraits: rare photos of African American life get a spotlight | The Guardian

Nadja Sayej, The Guardian
Daisy Studio. Studio portrait, 1940s–50s. Photograph: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Featured Image



[dropcap]In[/dropcap] 1861, African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass took the stage at Boston’s Tremont Temple Baptist church and declared: “To the eye and spirit, pictures are just what poetry and music are to the ear and heart.”

It was part of his speech Pictures and Progress, one of the most historic lectures on contemporary photography where Douglass talked about how photography could be a powerful force of positive self-representation to overcome racism during the second world war. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″]

African American Portraits: Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s, Metropolitan Museum of Art, African American History, Black History, African American Communities, Black Communities, African American Photography, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN, KINDR'D Magazine, KINDR'DUnknown American maker. Studio portrait, 1940s–50s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
African American Portraits: Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s, Metropolitan Museum of Art, African American History, Black History, African American Communities, Black Communities, African American Photography, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN, KINDR'D Magazine, KINDR'DUnknown American maker. Studio portrait, 1940s–50s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

His spellbinding words are the inspiration for the exhibition African American Portraits: Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s, which opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on 26 June.

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