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    PHOTOGRAPHY AND RACE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: ABOLITION, CIVIL WAR, AND RECONSTRUCTION

    PHOTOGRAPHY AND RACE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: ABOLITION, CIVIL WAR, AND RECONSTRUCTION

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    Photography served alternately as a tool of racial domination and resistance before and after the Civil War (1861-65). Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass effectively used images to promote abolitionist crusades. Photographs of dead Union and Confederate soldiers helped puncture the myth of the romance of war. Images also helped expose the possibilities and limitations of the Reconstruction period and its aftermath—particularly as seen in lynching photos in which white crowds posed with murdered black Americans. This fascinating slide lecture explores the evolution of photographic technology, new aesthetic conventions, and the circulation and consumption of these artifacts in the nineteenth century. Join us for Professor Hiatt’s original insights into this tremendously important period of history.
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    About the lecturer(s)

    Willie Hiatt

    Willie Hiatt, a Kentucky native, is an Associate Professor of History at Long Island University, Post Campus, and a former Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University (2019-20). He’s the author of The Rarified Air of the Modern: Airplanes and Technological Modernity in the Andes (Oxford, 2016). His current research is an oral history project examining how Maoist insurgents in Peru targeted high-tension towers during the Shining Path movement (1980-92).

    Lecture Details

    Program
    Summer 2023
    Sessions
    1 lecture(s)
    Day & Time
    Friday, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
    Date(s)
    Jun 16, 2023