Artifact Questions: Exhibiting Thought-Provoking Objects by Adrienne Berney.
A photograph in the Louisiana State Museum collection raises many questions. The image compels a viewer to ponder circumstances associated with creation of portrait circa 1860, and its subsequent defacement. piece inspired staff members conduct survey assess photograph’s potential for exhibition. Survey participants interpreted variety ways. While majority assumed filial relationship between portrait’s two subjects, significant minority concluded that picture showed slave nanny her White infant charge, history piece’s fragmented provenance supports. Most found cut out face adult subject intriguing, their responses suggested power could have an exhibition value artifact
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