A Picture Gallery of the Soul

Howard Oransky, Herman J. Milligan, Jr., Cheryl Finley , crystal am nelson

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University of California Press
29 November 2022

History of Art & Design Styles; Photography & photographs; Museums & museology; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Black & Asian studies

A vivid and moving celebration of the ways that Black Americans have shaped and been shaped by photography, from its inception to the present day.

A Picture Gallery of the Soul presents the work of more than one hundred Black American artists whose practice incorporates the photographic medium. Organized by the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota, this group exhibition samples a range of photographic expressions produced over three centuries, from traditional photography to mixed media and conceptual art.

From the daguerreotypes made by Jules Lion in New Orleans in 1840 to the Instagram post of the Baltimore Uprising made by Devin Allen in 2015, photography has chronicled Black American life, and Black Americans have defined the possibilities of photography. Frederick Douglass recognized the quick, easy, and inexpensive reproducibility of photography and developed a theoretical framework for understanding its impact on public discourse, which he delivered as a series of four lectures during the Civil War. It has been widely acknowledged that Douglass, the subject of 160 photographic portraits and the most photographed American of the nineteenth century, anticipated that the history of American photography and the history of Black American culture and politics would be deeply intertwined. A Picture Gallery of the Soul honors the diverse visions of Blackness made manifest through the lens of photography.

Published in association with the Katherine E. Nash Gallery.

Exhibition dates:

Katherine E. Nash Gallery: September 13–December 10, 2022.

Contributions by: Herman J. Milligan Jr., Cheryl Finley, crystal am nelson, Seph Rodney
Edited by: Howard Oransky
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 907g
ISBN: 9780520388062
ISBN 10: 0520388062
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 29 November 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Foreword Deborah Willis Preface Herman J. Milligan, Jr. Preface Howard Oransky Mining the Archive of Black Life and Culture Cheryl Finley A Visual Politics of Black Pleasure crystal am nelson Why We Wear a Suit to Do the Work Seph Rodney Plates Notes to Plates Contributor Biographies Index

Howard Oransky is Director of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, operated by the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is editor of Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta.