Abstract: At first glance, Jessica Ingram's landscape photographs could have been made nearly anywhere in the American South: a fenced-in backyard, a dirt road lined by overgrowth, a field grooved with muddy tire prints. These seemingly ordinary places, however, were the sites of pivotal events during the civil rights era, though often there is not a plaque with dates and names to mark their importance. Many of these places are where the bodies of African Americans-activists, mill workers, store owners, sharecroppers, children and teenagers-were murdered or found, victims of racist violence. These images are interspersed with oral histories from victims' families and investigative journalists, as well as pages from newspapers and FBI files and other ephemera. With Road Through Midnight, the result of nearly a decade of research and fieldwork, Ingram unlocks powerful and complex histories to reframe these commonplace landscapes as sites of both remembrance and resistance and transform the way we regard both what has happened and what's happening now-as the fight for civil rights goes on and memorialization has become the literal subject of contested cultural and societal ground.
Titolo e contributi: Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial / Jessica Ingram
Pubblicazione: [S.l.] : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 1 v. (senza paginazione) : ill. ; 28,5 cm
EAN: 9781469654232
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
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Biblioteca | Collocazione | Inventario | Stato | Prestabilità | Rientra |
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Biblioteca d’arte contemporanea “Guido Ballo” | TEC.9.ING.1 | 1-36255 | Su scaffale | Solo consultazione |
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