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SUMMARY:Real and Imaginary: Plantation Images of the Enslaved in Lynchburg\, Virginia
DESCRIPTION:Self-emancipated from a plantation in Maryland\, the most photographed man in the 19th century\,\nFrederick Douglass\, once stated “It is evident that the great cheapness and universality of\npictures must exert a powerful\, though silent\, influence upon the ideas and sentiment of present\nand future generations.” \nThinking about plantation images\, real and imaginary – where is the line between fact and\nfiction? In what ways do the plantation images out of Lynchburg\, Virginia act as tools through\nwhich the city created and maintains a fictional version of identity? Using the text Listening to\nImages by Tina M. Campt (Duke University Press\, 2017) King and Macaluso approach a series\nof images from yesterday and today to ask questions with the following methodology in mind:\n…listening to images is constituted as a practice of looking beyond what we see and attuning our\nsenses to the other affective frequencies through which photographs register. It is a haptic\nencounter that foregrounds the frequencies of images and how they move\, touch\, and connect us\nto the event of the photo. (Campt\, 9) \nHistorical sites have and are currently grappling with how to best represent the lives of the\nenslaved. Visual images are an important and often used means of interpretation to better\nunderstand history. But how truthful are these images? Analyzing these images in ways that\nunearths new meanings and different narratives yields different possibilities for the past\, present\nand the future. Together with examining the archival material\, academic scholarship and\nsustained conversation with descendant communities are means of providing legitimacy.\nIn the absence of the self-presentation or self-creation of visual images\, portraits\, and paintings;\nhow do we interpret and reimagine such visuals as a means of understanding the lives of the\nenslaved and history? What can these images tell us about the observer\, the subject(s)\, and their\nrealities? How can they be reimagined as sites of self-possession\, freedom\, and sound?\nKing and Macaluso will describe and analyze images that are repeated and disseminated to the\npublic via history books and museum exhibits\, but rarely connected and examined.
URL:https://lauramacaluso.com/event/real-and-imaginary-plantation-images-of-the-enslaved-in-lynchburg-virginia/
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