Double Exposure in Daytona Beach
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Double Exposure
African Americans Before and Behind the Camera
January 23 – May 30, 2010
“The visual dialogue created by this exhibition links past, present, and future generations of African American artists. This dialogue seeks to help viewers explore the universal nature of memory and photographic representation in relation to their own personal histories.” – Lisa Henry
Saturday January 23, 2010
Curators Talk with Lisa Henry 5 p.m.
Exhibition Opening Reception 6-7:30 p.m.
Unless noted otherwise, all museum exhibitions, events and films are presented at the Southeast Museum of Photography which is located on the Daytona Beach campus of Daytona State College at 1200 International Speedway Blvd, three miles east of 1-95. The museum is located in the Mori Hosseini Center (Bld. 1200). Visitor parking is available. Admission & Events are free. For detailed exhibition and program information visit www.smponline.org or call the museum information hotline at (386) 506-4475
About the exhibition
Double Exposure showcases vintage photographs from the Amistad Center for Art & Culture’s historical collection of art and artifacts with photo-based art by contemporary African-American artists. This landmark exhibition comprehensively explores the African American experience through an examination of representation in photographic works from the 19th and 20th centuries. It highlights African American history, as well as the history of photography and includes photographs, albums, and cased images, as well as contemporary art that incorporate vintage photographic imagery.
It brings together photographers from diverse backgrounds with different artistic, photographic and cultural interests. The contemporary section features late 20th century photography, photo-collage, and mixed media by artists that visualize the black experience and identify a larger contemporary experience of race through the use of personal, cultural and historical images of race, society and identity. Concepts of identity and memory form one of the exhibition’s over-arching themes, visually theorizing the shifting relationships between black cultural memory and contemporary photographic storytelling.
Significant figures from the history of African American photography are represented in Double Exposure. Predominant subjects include the history of African-Americans as photographic subjects; the diversity and artistry of black life as depicted by African-Americans who have taken up the camera to create their own images; contemporary works that comment on slavery and the civil rights conflicts of the 20th century; and contemporary explorations of family, identity and history.
Lisa Henry is an independent curator and writer. She is a former Assistant Curator for American Art at the Newark Museum in New Jersey. Her exhibitions include: The Grapes of Wrath: Horace Bristol’s California Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, I’m Thinking of a Place at the UCLA Hammer Museum, and Blacks in and Out of the Box at The California African American Museum.
Frank Mitchell is Consulting Historian for The Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Collections Manager for the New Haven Municipal Art Collection, and has taught museum studies for Trinity College’s Graduate Studies Program. He is a founding partner of the consulting group Westside Works and board president of the Connecticut public history cooperative Stone Soup.
Photographers Represented in the Exhibition:
Maya Freelon Asante ◦ J.P. Ball ◦ April Banks ◦ Cornelius Marion Battey ◦ Sheila Pree Bright ◦ Kesha Bruce ◦ Albert Chong ◦ Renee Cox ◦ Gerald Cyrus ◦ Alan Kimara Dixon ◦ Bridget Goodman ◦ Myra Greene ◦ Leslie Hewitt ◦ Melvina Lathan ◦ Stephanie Lindsey ◦ Willie Robert Middlebrook ◦ Wendy Phillips ◦ Glynnis Reed ◦ Betye Saar ◦ Napoleon Sarony ◦ Addison Scurlock ◦ Bayeté Ross Smith ◦
Lorna Simpson ◦ Clarissa Sligh ◦ Darryl Smith ◦ James Van Der Zee ◦ Carl Van Vechten ◦ Augustus Washington ◦ Lewis Watts ◦ Carrie Mae Weems ◦ Carla Williams ◦ Amanda Williams ◦ Deborah Willis ◦ Hank Willis Thomas.
This exhibition was curated by Lisa Henry and Frank Mitchell and is organized by The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, Inc., Hartford, Connecticut and sponsored by Aetna.
Tags: Addison Scurlock > Alan Kimara Dixon > Albert Chong > Amanda Williams > April Banks > Augustus Washington > Bayeté Ross Smith > Betye Saar > Bridget Goodman > Carl Van Vechten > Carla Williams > Carrie Mae Weems > Clarissa Sligh > Cornelius Marion Battey > Darryl Smith > Deborah Willis > Frank Mitchell > Gerald Cyrus > Glynnis Reed > Hank Willis Thomas > J.P. Ball > James Van Der Zee > Kesha Bruce > Leslie Hewitt > Lewis Watts > Lisa Henry > Lorna Simpson > Maya Freelon Asante > Melvina Lathan > Myra Greene > Napoleon Sarony > Renee Cox > Sheila Pree Bright > Southeast Museum of Photography > Stephanie Lindsey > Wendy Phillips > Willie Robert Middlebrook
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