Art Talk—Reframing Photographic Histories at the Harvard Art Museums with Makeda Best from simmons writing center Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 19 min 96 sec ✓ Published: 04-May-2021
Description: What makes a photograph an appropriate object for a teaching museum? How do objects invite us to consider and to activate their multiple social, economic, and political realities across time? How can an object encourage curators to acknowledge the impacts of and to relinquish our structures and voices of authority? In this talk, photography curator Makeda Best will explore the history of photography collecting at Harvard and share her work to foreground new perspectives, contexts of interpretati
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