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A Willing Suspension of Disbelief + Photography and Fetish

Directed by Christopher Harris
January 1, 201417mNo grades yet
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A three-channel video installation and a split-screen video installation in response to an 1850 daguerrotype of a young American-born enslaved woman named Delia, who was photographed stripped bare as visual evidence in support of an ethnographic study by the Swiss-born naturalist professor Louis Agassiz, who held that racial characteristics are a result of differing human origins.

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