Photography, Antiblackness, and the Politics of the Visual with Kimberly Juanita Brown

In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Kimberly Juanita Brown (Dartmouth College) examines photography's long history as tethered to global histories of antiblackness that have ritualized ways of seeing for the viewing public. She unpacks what she calls a “cartography of the ocular” as one of the important ways to measure legibility in images of violated black subjects.

Presented in person in the Clark auditorium. A 5 pm reception in the Manton Research Center reading room precedes the event.

Image: Cover detail of Kimberly Juanita Brown's Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual