Soldiers who took up arms to fight for their freedom. Using photographs and the written record she examines not only the individual stories of the soldiers, but also the importance of africanamerican communities during and after the war. Deborah willis is University Professor and chair of the department of photography and imaging at the Tisch School of the arts at new York University and has an affiliated appointment with the college of arts and Sciences Department of social and cultural Analysis And Africanus studies. Well, this is the author of envisioning Emancipation And Michelle obama. Both of which received naacp image awards as well as posing beauty now, lets hear from deborah willis. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you. Welcome and good afternoon everyone. Im excited to be here and i thank the national archives for this invitation and to share my work and inviting me. Its really exciting to consider the work a place where i that a lot of work in terms of research at the n
Sense of immediacy that we dont have with paintings and prints from the revolutionary war are other earlier conflicts. We can identify individual faces and we can imagine ourselves on the actual battlefields in the aftermath of the fighting. Thousands of those images are now in the national archives but photos of black soldiers are rare. In her book the black civil War Soldier Deborah Willis shows us the faces of a number of black soldiers who took up arms to fight for their freedom. Using photographs and the written record she examines not only the individual stories of the soldiers, but also the importance of africanamerican communities during and after the war. Deborah willis is University Professor and chair of the department of photography and imaging at the Tisch School of the arts at new York University and has an affiliated appointment with the college of arts and Sciences Department of social and cultural Analysis And Africanus studies. Well, this is the author of envisioning
Gould shaw, one of the civil wars first africanamerican units. The work specifically commemorates the july 18th, 1863 storming of Fort Wagner in which onethird of the 51sts men or officers were killed or wounded. Tell it with pride seeks to shine a spotlight on the group. Good morning. Im sarah greenough, the senior curator of photographs here at the national gallery of art, and i am the cocurator of this exhibition. Augusta Saint God dins began to work on this memorial in 1883. Initially he was going to take it a monument just dedicated to shaw himself. If you look at some of the examples in the case behind you, youll see one of his first ideas for the monument was to depict Colonel Robert Gould Shaw on a horse. That kind of depiction is often referred to as the man on the mount. However, colonel Shaws Family objected to that. They shout such a depiction was too grand a way to show their son. He was, after all, only 25 years old when he was killed at the battle of Fort Wagner. They th
Faces and imagine ourselves in the battlefields in the aftermath of the fighting. Thousands of those images are in the national archives burk photos of the black soldiers are rare. In the book the black civil War Soldier Deborah Willis shows us the faces of the black soldiers who took up arms to fight for their freedom. Using photographs and the written record, she examines not only the individual stories of the soldiers, but also the importance of the africanamerican communities during and after the war. Deborah willis is a University Professor and chair of the department of photography at new York University and has an affiliated department with the college of arts and sciences and department of social and cultural Analysis And Africana studies and also wrote a book on Michelle Obama and african beauty, and both have received naacp image awards. Welcome. Thank you, everyone. I am excited to be here and i thank the national archives for this invitation to share my work and inviting me
Courage, family, and citizenship to counteract prevailing stereotypes, and the national archives hosted this talk and provided the video. Greetings from the national archives. Im david fairio, archivist of the united states. And it is my pleasure to present Deborah Willis Author of the black civil War Soldier. The civil war was the most prolonged conflict to be extensively be recorded in photographs. This visual record gives a sense of immediacy that we dont have with paintings and prints from the revolutionary war and other earlier conflicts. We can identify individual faces and imagine ourselves in the battlefields in the aftermath of the fighting. Thousands of those images are in the national archives but photos of the black soldiers are rare. In the book the black civil War Soldier Deborah Willis shows us the faces of the number of black soldiers who took up arms to fight for their freedom. Using photographs and the written record, she examines not only the individual stories of th