“In this seventeen minute talk(at the 23:00 mark), professor, curator, photographer Deborah Willis discusses the pictorial record and a “new memory of photography”—how these images have become standards for reimagining the lives of black soldiers and workers. As Civil War photographs were widely circulated, they became a story telling moment for those who posed. Looking at numerous images, she contemplates the “standard of pose” and what may have happened in front of the camera as well as the ways that these photos document the jobs, lives, aspirations, and beliefs of the soldiers. This talk was part of the public seminar: Is There Anything More to See?”
“This is the third program of Still Hazy After All These Years, a series of public panels at the CUNY Graduate Center marking the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. In this program, a panel of noted art historians and historians addresses the persistence of photography’s influence over the vision of the Civil War, and what remains to be learned from the medium and the war’s visual record. Among other questions, the panelists will discuss photography’s impact on Americans’ perceptions of the conflict in the past and how the meanings and uses of the visualization of the war have changed over time.”
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(Source: ashp.cuny.edu)