A poignant collection of 150 photographs, "Camera Man's Journey"
takes us to a place at once familiar and foreign. Set in the South
early in the twentieth century, these photographs bridge a distance
not only of time but also of contrasting attitudes and customs.
The images show African Americans in or around Columbia,
Beaufort, and Hilton Head, South Carolina. Some photographs were
taken in surroundings where blacks might associate with whites--out
of necessity and according to strict custom. Most of the images,
however, are set in "colored sections" or other remote areas of
town and country where blacks were obliged to fashion lives apart.
Under segregation and disenfranchisement, men, women, and children
are portrayed in ordinary occupations and pursuits: a peddler
selling his wares, a woman tying a toddler's shoes, a barber and
his young apprentice taking a break outside their shop.
Julian Dimock, whose works appeared often in major travel and
nature magazines, took the photographs in 1904-5. So many
photographers of the era tended to romanticize or politicize their
African American subjects; Dimock was different. Signs of want and
inequity are plain to see in these images, but Dimock portrays his
subjects as they really were in all of their dignity, strength, and
beauty.
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