[Durham INC] Durham County Library Hosts Scholar on Early African-American Photography

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Gina Rozier
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Date: July 18, 2012                                                                                                   CONTACT: Gina Rozier
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                             919-560-0151 or grozier at durhamcountync.gov<mailto:grozier at durhamcountync.gov>

Durham County Library Hosts Scholar on Early African-American Photography

Program:             Meet the Editor: Dr. Maurice Wallace
Date:                     Sunday, July 29
Time:                    3 p.m.
Location:             Main Library, 300 N. Roxboro St.
Cost:                      Free and open to the public


About:  Durham County Library welcomes Dr. Maurice Wallace, associate professor of African-American Studies and English at Duke University, to discuss his latest book, Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity on Sunday, July 29 at 3 p.m. at the Main Library, 300 N. Roxboro St.



Co-written with Shawn Michelle Smith and featuring over 70 images, the book brings to light wide-ranging practices of early African-American photography and studies the effects photography had on racialized thinking.



In Pictures and Progress, Wallace explores how prominent 19th-century, African-American intellectuals and activists used the power of photography to shape perceptions about race, and employed the new medium in their quest for social and political justice. Wallace asserts that these images were used to counter the racist imagery widely circulated during this era and as an empowering means of self-representation. By engaging scholars from a variety of disciplines, this book reconsiders such figures as Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Paul Lawrence Dunbar and W. E. B. Du Bois as important and innovative theorists and practitioners of photography. The book also presents interpretive essays that analyze the work of four photographers of the period.



Prior to his tenure at Duke, Wallace taught in the departments of English and African and Afro-American Studies at Yale University. He is a former member of the Yale Journal of Criticism editorial collective. Author of Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775-1995. His recent teachings and writings have turned to literature and visual culture, with particular emphases on autobiography, realism and the visual technologies of race and gender.



This program is made possible by funding from Durham Library Foundation. For more information, contact Joanne Abel at 919-560-0268.



Durham County Library provides the entire community with books, services and other resources that inform, inspire learning, cultivate understanding and excite the imagination. For more information, visit your local library or visit us online at durhamcountylibrary.org.
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