A reflection on Maurice Berger's Race Stories
We will begin our retrospect of Maurice Berger’s Race Stories and reflection on black history and our current political and social climate by featuring, “Capturing the Struggle for Racial Equality, Past and Present.” This article looks at works from Black American photographer, Sheila Pree Bright’s book “#1960Now” that served as a reminder that activism and the struggle for racial equality in the United States has existed throughout all of American history and is ongoing. Bright uses the medium of black and white photography to “[underscore] this historical continuity” and contribute to the scores of legendary civil rights photographs that testify to racial violence and injustice in America.
Posted: June 22, 2020, 11:08 AM