Tuesday Studio: For All the World to See

This summer, the International Center for Photography in New York is presenting the exhibition For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, curated by Maurice Berger, a professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.  The show presents film and television clips, photography, newspapers, and other objects in order to demonstrate the role that they played in enabling civil rights changes and in establishing the character of the movement. 

For those of you unable to get to the exhibition, reviewed by Laila Pedro in Idiom magazine as “one of the most careful and engaging curatorial efforts I’ve seen in a long time,” there are a host of other ways to experience the exhibit.  There is an online version of the exhibition, which offers some of the images and written ideas behind the organization of the show, and an online film festival which matches seventeen films with short essays.  All of the films are easily available on DVD, and the corresponding essays establish their connections to and influences on the civil rights movement.

The exhibition will also be travelling to the National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. and the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at University of Maryland Baltimore County.  Whether or not you make it to the show, you can bring the experience home with the exhibition catalogue, which is available from the Yale Press website. 

To learn more about the exhibition, check out this video from PBS’s Sunday Arts.  They featured the exhibition in their August 1 show, and posted the piece online.

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