It is crucial for us to see how and why European and American images of Palestine have historically distorted the realities of this region.
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The Victorian-era Daguerrotypes of Women Breastfeeding
In the 19th century, just after the daguerreotype’s introduction in the United States, there was a fashionable moment for portraits of women breastfeeding.
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Jacob Riis’s Photographic Battle with New York’s 19th-Century Slums
Jacob Riis may have set his house on fire twice, and himself aflame once, as he perfected the new 19th-century flash photography technique, but when the magnesium powder erupted with a white, blinding light, he illuminated some of the darkest corners of Manhattan’s impoverished tenements.
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Seeking Humanity in the Barbarity of Brazil’s Slave Past
At the University of São Paulo’s Museum of Contemporary Art, a new exhibition is interrogating Brazil’s legacy of slavery, disrupting a body of photography that was meant to normalize slavery.