An exhibition called “For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights” at the International Center of Photography defines visual culture broadly and was co-organized by CADVC. There are plenty of photographs, though few framed prints. Instead they are in newspapers, magazines and brochures and on posters. These are interspersed with videos, films and objects (dolls, commemorative coins, baseball cards). And there’s lots of audio material. As the exhibition’s curator, Maurice Berger, senior research scholar at the Center for Art Design and Visual Culture, points out, “the protesters had a controlling hand in creating what television broadcast.”
The article, “Images that Steered a Drive for Freedom,” ran May 20 in The New York Times.
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