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Title
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African Americans, civil rights, Jesse Owens / Amanda Chestnut.
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Description
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"Several years ago, Rochester-based artist Amanda Chestnut was researching in Visual Studies Workshop's Soibelman Syndicate News Agency Archives and observed how photographs of Black subjects were treated differently than images of non-Black people and subjects. Not only did the photographers and the news agency treat the subjects differently, but our organization's archivists clearly had as well. As a 2020 resident in VSW's Project Space, Chestnut worked with us to publish this remarkable archive/book that re-claims the other-ness of Black photographic subjects as well as the innumerable attempts to personally other the Black artist and her family for much of her life."--Publisher's web site <https://bookstore.vsw.org/product/african-americans-civil-rights-jesse-owens>, accessed 24 June 2021
Arist's book, comprising 41 booklets and 15 images contained in a lidded box.
Edition limited to 40 numbered copies signed by the artist.
Includes a lock of the artist's hair tucked in to one of the booklets.
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Subject
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Art Media Workroom
N7433.4 .C4447 A87 2020
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Artists' books -- New York (State)
Racism -- United States
Portrait photography -- United States
Classification -- Archives
African Americans
African Americans -- Race identity
Artists' books
Autobiographical memory in art
Autobiographical memory in literature
Classification
Hair in art
Portrait photography
Racism
New York (State)
United States
Visual Studies Workshop
Chestnut, Amanda
Archives
Portraits
Artists' books -- New York (State) -- 2020
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Discover UR
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Creator
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Chestnut, Amanda, book artist.
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Publisher
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Rochester, N.Y. : Visual Studies Workshop Press 2020
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Format
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1 box : illustrations ; 13 x 18 x 12 cm
