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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
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Sandrine Colard: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard
As an African photography scholar of Congolese descent, I have dedicated more than 10 years of my research to the study of the Congolese people’s history of their own images.
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Kimberly Juanita Brown: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard
The daguerreotypes of Renty Taylor, his daughter Delia, along with other enslaved men and women, more than presenting subjects bound by unfreedom, offer evidence of the violence and brutality of American slavery, whose dismissals and denials haunt the nation still.
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Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard
A full exposition on the world-historical crime of transatlantic racial slavery is impossible to render within the bounded written text of any historical or legal document.
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Legal Precedents or Reparations? Lawsuit Against Harvard May Decide Who Owns Images of Enslaved People
Tamara Lanier’s battle for the ownership of her ancestors’ images is forcing the law to contend with the the institution of chattel slavery in interpreting intellectual property parameters.
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The Continuing Fight to #FreeRenty
“For years, Papa Renty’s slave owners profited from his suffering,” Lanier said in a statement at the time. “It’s time for Harvard to stop doing the same thing to our family.”
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Bay Area Artists Put Together an A-Z Guide for Forming a Museum Union
The artists released the risograph-printed booklet series Organizing Power to assist in the arduous process of assembling a bargaining unit and negotiating.