Examples of photographers artist statements on slavery

  • Photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales spent over a decade meticulously researching 'fugitive' slaves and the ways they escaped to freedom.
  • Artist C. Rose Smith discusses her work using photography and a simple cotton shirt to challenge the history of slave labour in the Southern United States.
  • Her father, James Baumfree, was a slave captured in modern-day Ghana; Elizabeth Baumfree, also known as Mau-Mau Bet, was the daughter of slaves.

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    This series of collages mixes imagery that depict women and naturlig eller utan tillsats in the Caribbean and other tropical spaces, like Google search results, Caribbean postcards and touristic brochures, ethnographic photography, art history paintings and other sources. I’m interested in the gestures and performativity of the women depicted, how the images present the subject as “available,” and by extension, the Caribbean landscape, and how these characteristics extend throughout the different visual traditions inom pull from in spite of the diverse mediums, formats, location and temporalities they komma from. While the collages point to the circularity of the Gaze that produces these images, they also meditate on inhabiting pre-imagined roles as a way to sabotage them.

    The background image in Continuum I was taken bygd Roland Bonaparte, who photographed a number of people brought to Europe and the US to be studied bygd anthropologists and be exhibited in zoological gardens as specimens in reconstructed na

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    6 Great Black Photographers

    They captured the essence of the Black experience in America, often with Leica cameras

    As far back as the Civil War, there were great Black photographers who created compelling professional portraits of Black Americans and their families. These historical images, many showing people posing in their finest, memorialize their dignity, resilience, and self-affirmation in the face of horrific discrimination, unjust laws, and the violent racist residue of slavery. More recently, starting during the Great Depression and continuing to the present day, Black photographers in America have been doing something even more important. In the great tradition of photojournalism, they’ve created searing and compassionate visual documents of the actual day-to-day lives of Black people in their communities, capturing a visceral sense of their everyday reality, and revealing its unvarnished truth. The art they have created distills the agony and ecstasy of be

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    Talking Back to Power: A Time of Future-Past

    Bindi Vora (BV): Talking Back to Power is a very poignant yet powerful body of work – what was the catalyst for making this series and the purpose of the recurrent use of the white shirt we see in the photographs?

    C. Rose Smith (CRS):     In titling the work, I wanted to emphasise the word power because the work grew out of a need to confront adverse power structures in the US, specifically patriarchal governance rooted in white supremacy. Thinking specifically about the way power and protest are represented through fashion and photography, I turned to the 2018 MA thesis of scholar and curator theo tyson. Her project, 'performing fashion: senseless acts of gender,’ critiqued identity construction and gender hierarchy through garments such as the white dress shirt and denim jeans. Using the garments as a subject of study on patriarchy, she asked queer-identifying models to wear them and to challenge the politics of identity. The pho

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