Camara Dia Holloway
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On being black and visiting museums
by Jendella Benson Deciding that it is never too early to take the task of cultural reproduction seriously (see David Osa Amadasun’s article, “‘Black people don’t go to galleries’ – The reproduction of taste and cultural values”), I took my fourteen month old son to the National Portrait Gallery one brisk November afternoon. The exhibition […]…
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New exhibition of photos of 1957 civil rights march by Lee Friedlander
Check out this exhibition Let Us March On: Lee Friedlander and the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom at the Yale University Art Gallery curated by my former student, La Tanya Autry. The Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, a virtually forgotten civil rights gathering at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on May 17, 1957, was photographed by Lee Friendlander. This…
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James Barnor, photographer
Having spent several summers in Accra, I was delighted to learn about the incredible photographer, James Barnor, who operated the Ever Young studio in Jamestown. Autograph mounted an exhibition of his work: http://autograph-abp.co.uk/exhibitions/james-barnor-ever-young and an accompanying monograph has been published of his work. He has visited the US for the first time and spoke at…
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Anna May Wong and Cross-Racial Masquerade
The Chinese-American star, Anna May Wong, regularly appeared in films in roles that were non-Asian but always racialized. I am currently obsessed with how often imagery linked her with blackness, as in this Paramount Studio photograph by Eugene Robert Richee:
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Celestial Sphere, Color Movies, Gardens on Parade!
Originally posted on MCNY Blog: New York Stories: Promotional ephemera from the Collection on the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair. Museum of the City of New York, X2013.156.6. Help the Museum digitize its 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair Collection! The Museum’s New York World’s Fair collections continue to be a major resource for researchers all…
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Anna May Wong for Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
Originally posted on FROM THE BYGONE: Portrait of Anna May Wong for Daughter of the Dragon directed by Lloyd Corrigan 1931 via theredlist.com Anna May Wong and Warner Oland in Daughter of the Dragon directed by Lloyd Corrigan 1931 via theredlist.com ?
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Desperately Seeking Photographer
I have been unable to identify the photographer of the following portrait of Anna May Wong. It was likely taken in 1934 when Wong was starring in a film tltled Chu Chin Chow, aka Ali Baba Nights. If anyone knows, please let me know using the comment field or email me at camara.holloway@icloud.com
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Picturing Americans…Insights come from everywhere!
Last Friday, I had the opportunity to participate in a convo, “Picturing Americans,” about Thomas Hart Benton as part of the opening festivities for “American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood” at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. Thinking about Benton’s relationship to Hollywood and parallels with my research on Carl Van Vechten revealed…
CAMARA DIA HOLLOWAY 