A Willing Suspension of Disbelief + Photography and Fetish
Plot: A three-channel video installation and a split-screen video installation in response to an 1850 daguerrotype of a young American-born enslaved woman named Delia, who was photographed stripped bare as visual evidence in support of an ethnographic study by the Swiss-born naturalist professor Louis Agassiz, who held that racial characteristics are a result of differing human origins.
Release Date:
Wednesday, January 1 2014
11 years ago
11 years ago
Christopher Harris