Good Black News: 'Black Victorian Photos Exhibit "Black Chronicles II" at Harvard University's Cooper Gallery Through December'

September 6, 2015
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“We are not what we seem.” When the iconic novelist Richard Wright wrote those words, in 1940, he was describing the African-American experience. As a stunning new exhibit at Harvard University’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery shows, the complexity of seeing and identity took its own twists on the other side of the Atlantic when the relatively new art of photography began producing images of people of color in Victorian England.