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Where We Find Ourselves - The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922 (Hardcover)
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Where We Find Ourselves - The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922 (Hardcover)
Series: Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
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Self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham,
North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the
frontier-like boomtown on the map. As an itinerant portraitist
working primarily in North Carolina and Virginia during the rise of
Jim Crow, Mangum welcomed into his temporary studios a clientele
that was both racially and economically diverse. After his death in
1922, his glass plate negatives remained stored in his darkroom, a
tobacco barn, for fifty years. Slated for demolition in the 1970s,
the barn was saved at the last moment-and with it, this surprising
and unparalleled document of life at the turn of the twentieth
century, a turbulent time in the history of the American South.
Hugh Mangum's multiple-image, glass plate negatives reveal the
open-door policy of his studio to show us lives marked both by
notable affluence and hard work, all imbued with a strong sense of
individuality, self-creation, and often joy. Seen and experienced
in the present, the portraits hint at unexpected relationships and
histories and also confirm how historical photographs have the
power to subvert familiar narratives. Mangum's photographs are not
only images; they are objects that have survived a history of their
own and exist within the larger political and cultural history of
the American South, demonstrating the unpredictable alchemy that
often characterizes the best art-its ability over time to evolve
with and absorb life and meaning beyond the intentions or
expectations of the artist.
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