Regarding the Portrait: The Photographers
Through the advancements in technology and printing, photography becomes the most accessible form through which individuals could determine how they wanted to be seen. The burgeoning black media ensured the publication and circulation of photographic portraits, as well as the development of a modern criticality through the act of representation. In this lecture, Professor Mooney explores how, in collaboration with their patrons, African American commercial photographers generated a body politic that fostered racial equality through portraiture.

For more information: torch.ox.ac.uk/event/the-terra-lectures-in-american-art-regarding-the-portrait-0
Date: 1 June 2020, 17:00 (Monday, 6th week, Trinity 2020)
Venue: Online with Zoom
Speakers: Amy M Mooney (Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art), Moderator: Professor Deborah Willis (University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University)
Organising department: Department of History of Art
Organiser: TORCH (University of Oxford)
Part of: Terra Lectures in American Art: Regarding the Portrait
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Laura Spence