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Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of enslaved people, ending a long legal battle
Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement with a woman who says she is one of the subjects’ descendants.
The enslaved people in the photos are alleged descendants of Tamara Lanier, who accused Harvard of capitalizing on the images ...
An exhibition in Cambridge, England uses contemporary portraits to give a face to prominent Black rebels and abolitionists of ...
I found people all over the country, black photographers, making mostly portraits of black people but also some of white abolitionists." Incidentally, Willis first wrote about Augustus ...
he was also painting sensitive portraits of Black people, some of which, unusually for the time, were shown at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Philpot’s most frequent Black subject was ...
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How the Black Portraiture Boom Went Bustespecially those from Africa and those who painted portraits of Black people. A month after the sale of Fashion Icons, Kwesi Botchway, a friend of Clottey’s in Ghana, saw one of his own ...
The project also challenges stereotypes that Black fathers aren’t involved ... I wanted to have a recurring portrait series of people, and to add that element of hands and what that can mean ...
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