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Frances Benjamin Johnston : the Hampton album / Sarah Hermanson Meister ; with a contribution by LaToya Ruby Frazier.
Fine Arts Library LC2851.H333 J64 2019
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952. Hampton album.
- Johnston, Frances Benjamin.
- Hampton Institute--Pictorial works.
- Hampton Institute.
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.).
- Freed persons--Education--Virginia--Hampton--Pictorial works.
- Freed persons.
- Indians--Education--Pictorial works.
- Indians.
- African Americans--Education--Pictorial works.
- African Americans.
- African American universities and colleges--Virginia--Hampton--Pictorial works.
- African American universities and colleges.
- Documentary photography--Virginia--Hampton.
- Documentary photography.
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)--Photograph collections.
- Photograph collections--New York (State)--New York.
- Photograph collections.
- Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952.
- Freed persons--Education.
- Indians--Education.
- African Americans--Education.
- Virginia--Hampton.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 31 cm
- Other Title:
- Hampton album
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : The Museum of Modern Art, [2019]
- Summary:
- Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), credited as the first female photojournalist in the United States, was commissioned in 1899 to photograph the Hampton Institute, then a 30-year-old institution dedicated to the education of young African American and Native American men and women. What became known as the Hampton Album, comprised of 159 luxurious platinum plates that offer insight into the daily life of students, originally exhibited in 1900 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, is Johnston's signature work, and a touchstone for contemporary artists and historians. The leatherbound album was discovered serendipitously by Lincoln Kirstein in a Washington, DC, bookstore during World War II, and donated to MoMA in 1965. This volume makes the album available to the public in its entirety for the first time, and features a contextualizing essay by curator Sarah Hermanson Meister and a response to the album from artist LaToya Ruby Frazier --Artbook website (viewed on June 4, 2019)
- Contents:
- Learning the meaning of things / Sarah Hermanson Meister
- Photographs, schools, and systems / Latoya Ruby Frazier
- Plates
- A note on the prints
- Selected bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art.
- Notes:
- "Unless otherwise noted, works by Frances Benjamin Johnston are from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York."--Colophon.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-197).
- ISBN:
- 9781633450813
- 1633450813
- 1633450805
- 9781633450806
- OCLC:
- 1086332087
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