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Thu, Oct 10, 2024
6:30–7:30 pm
Leslie Cheek Theater
$8 ($5 VMFA members)
Join Dr. Sarah Kennel, VMFA’s Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography, Director of the Raysor Center, and Exhibition Curator, for a talk to explore the American South’s distinct, evolving, and contradictory character through an examination of photography from the 19th century to the present. A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845 examines how photographers working in the region have reckoned with the South’s fraught history and poses urgent questions about American identity.
ASL interpretation will be provided during this program.
Livestream will also be available.
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IMAGE Jackson, Mississippi, 1972, printed 1986, William Eggleston (American, born 1939), dry transfer print. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, funds provided by the Museum Purchase Program of the National Endowment for the Arts, matching funds provided by the Volunteer Committees of Art Museums, 89.50. ©️ artist or artist’s estate