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Responding to Pressure From Cambodia, Met Museum Reviews Suspected Looted Artifacts
An investigation by the Cambodian government flagged 45 “highly significant” items in the museum's collection as looted.
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“Ecosystem X,” an art-based reimagining of life on planet Earth, is the theme of this open call. 10 artists will win $5,000 and one student will receive $5,000 as a scholarship/stipend.
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Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard
“Black infants in America are now more than twice as likely to die as white infants—11.3 per 1,000 black babies, compared with 4.9 per 1,000 white babies, according to the most recent government data—a racial disparity that is actually wider than in 1850, 15 years before the end of slavery, when mos
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Laura Wexler: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard
In 1850, when Dr. Robert W. Gibbes commissioned J. T. Zealy to make daguerreotypes of persons held in slavery in and around Columbia, South Carolina, for Harvard Professor Louis Agassiz to use in support of his theory that African people were a separate species, daguerreotypes were at the height of
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Brian Wallis: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard
The ownership of images has a long and nuanced legal history, which has evolved dramatically in recent years as cultural standards and photographic technologies have rapidly advanced
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Stephen Sheehi: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard
Renty and his daughter Delia. Renty was an enslaved African, kidnapped from the Congo, sold and forced into slave labor on the South Carolina plantation of B.F. Taylor
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Fred Moten: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard
What is the relation between possessing a person, possessing their image, and dispossessing their progeny
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Jane'a Johnson-Farnham: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard
As a scholar of African American history and photography whose work has focused on the status of violent images in museums and archives, I fully support the validity of Ms. Tamara Lanier’s claim and the amicus brief.
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Eunsong Kim: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard
The daguerreotypes of Renty Taylor, Delia, Drana, Alfred, Jack, George Fassena, and Jem remained in an unused storage cabinet until 1975, when it was discovered by an employee of the Peabody Museum.
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Marianne Hirsch: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard
I am writing in support of the amicus curiae brief submitted by Professor Ariella Aïsha Azoulay of Brown University for the full restitution of the daguerreotypes of Renty Taylor and his daughter Delia, currently held by Harvard University, to their familial descendant, Tamara Lanier.
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Carles Guerra: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard
We cannot be indifferent to the long-lasting effects of photography. The photographs at the center of Lanier v. Harvard are relentless in making Renty and Delia Taylor work and perform as slaves. The pain inflicted on them has not ceased. Photography has the capacity to propagate harm, and we have t