Identity, resilience and community: early Black portrait photography – in pictures — SkimNews
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- National Gallery of Art will open Remember Me: Picturing African Americans in Early Photography in Washington DC on 7 November, with the show running until 14 March 2027.
- Remember Me: Picturing African Americans in Early Photography features 70 works drawn from the museum’s archives, including work by African American photographers and portraits featuring African American subjects.
- African American photographers and portrait subjects anchor the exhibition’s aim of showing how African Americans used portrait photography to depict themselves, their communities, their aspirations and their identities.
- Photography in Black communities provides the exhibition’s historical through-line, with the 70-work selection tracing the medium’s evolution.
Why it matters: The National Gallery of Art is presenting 70 archived works by African American photographers and featuring African American portrait subjects from 7 November through 14 March 2027. That gives the photographers and subjects represented in the archive an extended public platform for self-representation, while bringing the record of photography’s evolution in Black communities to museum visitors.
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