Framing — and Reflecting — Beauty
A photo in Deborah WIllis's new exhibit shows a woman holding a mirror inside a beauty parlor. It underscores how African-Americans have constructed their image to empower themselves.
View ArticleCivil Rights, One Person and One Photo at a Time
In the midst of the national struggle for civil rights, James Karales, born into an immigrant Greek family in Ohio, turned his camera on the individuals fighting for rights and respect.
View ArticleThe Woman in a Jim Crow Photo
Gordon Parks documented some of the quieter, but no less compelling or important, moments of the civil rights struggle. Decades later, one of his subjects recalls a poignant image.
View ArticleImages of Emancipation
A new book argues that photography was not incidental but central to the war against slavery, racism and segregation in the1850s through the 1930s.
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