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- Title
The Black Female Body in Photographs from World's Fairs and Expositions.
- Authors
Willis, Deborah; Williams, Carla
- Abstract
The article draws a parallel between the act of photography and the classification inherent in racial anatomical studies by examining the photographic record of African women made during world's fairs and expositions. The authors use the experiences of Sarah Baartman, as a paradigm through which to look at the practice of displaying and photographing nude African women at European and American world's fairs in the nineteenth century. Under the guise of science these displays and the resulting photographs had a powerful hand in shaping popular European and American attitudes toward African women, attitudes that include repulsion, sexual curiosity, and a total disregard for dignity and individuality.
- Subjects
PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY of women; PHOTOGRAPHY of the nude; BAARTMAN, Sarah; RACE discrimination; ART fairs
- Publication
Exposure (00988863), 2000, Vol 33, Issue 1/2, p11
- ISSN
0098-8863
- Publication type
Article