by lindaoppenheim | May 18, 2017 | Article
A photo essay “Let’s Talk About Race” by photographer Chris Buck that is featured in O, the Oprah Magazine’s May 2017 issue on race, included “three photos that flipped stereotypical tropes on their heads . . . [and] depict a complex...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 19, 2017 | Exhibit
Oliver Clasper, a London-born photographer and journalist, . . . has set out to provoke a conversation with a project he calls The Spaces We Inherit. In photographs and interviews, he is documenting historic sites where African Americans were terrorized and murdered...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 3, 2017 | Article
New York Times reported that “Cornell University Library has just made its Loewentheil Collection of African-American Photographs — 645 rare images dating from the 1860s through the 1960s that show a slice of American life not widely visible or preserved —...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 3, 2016 | Opinion
David Brooks comments on Frederick Douglass’s strategic use of photographic portraiture to breakthrough common stereotypes. “Douglass was redrawing people’s unconscious mental maps. He was erasing old associations about blackness and replacing them with...
by lindaoppenheim | May 6, 2015 | Events, Review
In the current issue of U.S. 1, Ilene Dube describes the Wendel A. White exhibition at the New Jersey State Museum. “Entering the Wendel White exhibit at the New Jersey State Museum, one gets a sensation similar to that when visiting the Holocaust Museum. Here...
