With 160 portraits made, Douglass became the most photographed man of the entire nineteenth century, showing the world of autonomy and self-determination.ĭouglass is but one of the many luminaries now on view in More Than a Picture: Selections from the Photography Collection at the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. Legendary social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman Frederick Douglass understood this, and adopted the new medium with a quickness. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Gift of Walter Iooss © Walter Iooss.
Subject of: Michael Jordan, Red Green & Black, Chicago 1988.
It put the power of picture making in more people’s hands, and once freed from the strictures of the academy, the discipline flourished. Art in the age of mechanical reproduction enabled the image to be created at a much lower cost, be duplicated en masse, and distributed widely. Once the provenance of the wealthy elite and the power structure, the photograph liberated the picture plane from those who used it to support highly biased histories, mythologies, and narratives. Photography radically democratized the act of representation. Also: “Crossing 125th” with Legendary Photographer Jamel Shabazz In many cases it is proof, as in the new standard bearer: “Pics or it didn’t happen.” In this way, the photograph can transform our understanding of life by speaking in all languages at the same time without ever saying a word. Photography bears witness to an event as it unfolds, creating a document of the moment that becomes part of the historical record. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Monica Karales and the Estate of James Karales © Estate of James Karales.Ī photograph is more than a picture-far more than mere art. Lewis “Big June” Marshall Carrying the U.S. Karales Printed by: Rick Rhodes Photography & Imaging, LLC Subject of: Lewis “Big June” Marshall. By Miss Rosen May 8th, 2017 Photograph by: James H.
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