AUTHORS IN CONVERSATION | Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle
- When
- Sat Jan 28, 2012
- Where
- Museum of the African Diaspora
- Time
- 2:00PM - 4:00PM
- Tags
- Arts, Museums, Cultural Museums
Description
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Leigh Raiford, author of Imprisoned in A Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle and Dr. Martin Berger. In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary about black lives. By putting photography at the center of the long African American freedom struggle, Raiford also explores how the recirculation of these indelible images in political campaigns and art exhibits both adds to and complicates our memory of the events.Dr. Leigh Raiford is associate professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her interests include race, gender, and visual culture with an emphasis on film and photography's intersections with memory.
Dr. Martin Berger is professor and chair of the History of Art and Visual Culture Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the founding director of the Visual Studies Ph.D. program at Santa Cruz. His most recent book, Seeing through Race: A Reinterpretation of Civil Rights Photography, was published in 2011.
More Info
- Link
- http://moadsf.org/visit/calendar.html#day-28
- Call
- 415-318-7200
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