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PhotoNOLA 2022

Seeing Black: Black Photography in New Orleans 1840 & Beyond

Seeing Black: Black Photography in New Orleans 1840 & Beyond
Includes First Frame, an immersive installation centering the photography of Florestine Perrault Collins
October 7, 2022 – June 4, 2023

New Orleans African American Museum
1418 Governor Nicholls St.
New Orleans, LA 70116
Thurs-Sun, 11 am-4 pm

 

SEEING BLACK is a multimedia, research-based project chronicling and celebrating the history, influence, performative aesthetic, and futurity of Black photography in New Orleans. From photography’s pre-Civil War beginnings to its 21st-century practices, SEEING BLACK engages the intellectual inquiry, cultural histories, political positioning, and innovative versatility of historical and contemporary Black photography.

Organized around a publication, a series of exhibitions spanning multiple sites, a digital platform, an index, and public programming, SEEING BLACK challenges traditional exhibition didactics, conventional object presentations, and historical assumptions of blackness and representation. The project robustly engages a broad body of work from more than eighty historical and contemporary photographers and the themes and vernacular embodied in their images.

First Frame, the preludial exhibition for SEEING BLACK: Black Photography in New Orleans 1840 & Beyond, is an immersive installation centering the photography of Florestine Perrault Collins, the first documented Black woman photographer in New Orleans, and work by early Black photographers documenting Black life, self-expression, political struggles, and social achievement through the camera.

Featuring a reimagined Florestine Perrault Collins Parlor Room, an early twentieth-century Black portrait studio, 1920s camera equipment, and photography artifacts, First Frame opens at the New Orleans African American Museum on October 6, 2022, at 7 pm, and will be on view from until June 4, 2023.

Posted on: Nov 20 2022
Posted in: PhotoNOLA 2022, Exhibitions, Treme, Museums, December 10

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