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PhotoNOLA 2022

The Life and Work of Florestine Perrault Collins

Buddy in costume with feathers by Florestine Perrault Collins undated, between 1928 and 1949 photographic paper The Historic New Orleans Collection, George Lewis Collection 2015.0060.308
The Historic New Orleans Collection’s Williams Research Center
410 Chartres Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
504-523-4662
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30am - 4:30pm

Registration Opens Monday, November 28, 12 pm CST
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Panel Discussion: Saturday, December 10, 2022 – 11 am
Sponsors: The Jules L. Cahn Family

The Historic New Orleans Collection and the New Orleans Photo Alliance will co-present a panel discussion on The Life and Work of Florestine Perrault Collins for the Jules L. Cahn’s Annual John H. Lawrence Photography Lecture at PhotoNOLA.  

Born in 1895, Florestine Marguerite Perrault Collins began her photography career at age 14. She was one of the first professional African American female photographers in the country, transforming her parlor into a photography studio to challenge pervasive stereotypes during Jim Crow Era New Orleans. Collins’s work has been featured in exhibitions such as Women Artists in Louisiana, 1825–1965: A Place of Their Own; a 2012 publication, Picturing Black New Orleans: A Creole Photographer’s View of the Early Twentieth Century, by her great-niece Dr. Arthé A. Anthony; a 2014 documentary, Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People; a 2022 exhibition, Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers (on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art); and the 2022 exhibition First Frame, the preludial exhibition for SEEING BLACK: Black Photography in New Orleans 1840 & Beyond curated by Shana M. griffin with Kalamu ya Salaam, Eric Waters, and Girard Mouton,III, which is currently on view at the New Orleans African American Museum.

The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC) is hosting this lecture at the Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street. Moderated by THNOC Reference Associate Jari Honora, our panelists include Dr. Arthé A. Anthony, Shana M. griffin, and Girard Mouton,III.
Admission: Free, first come first served. Registration is required.

Posted on: Nov 14 2022
Posted in: PhotoNOLA 2022, Festival Events, Lectures & Talks, French Quarter, , December 10

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