Double Exposure is a major new series based on the remarkable photography collection held by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Washington, D.C.. From daguerreotype portraits taken before the Civil War, to twenty-first century digital prints, Double Exposure is a striking visual record of key historical events, cultural touchstones, and private and communal moments, that helps to illuminate African American life. The first volume in the series, ‘Through the African American Lens’, is an introduction to the collection, revealing the ways in which African Americans have used activism, community and culture to fight for social justice and create a better life. AUTHOR: Lonnie G. Bunch III is the founding director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Rhea L. Combs is a curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and head of the museum’s Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center of African American Media Arts Deborah Willis is an art photographer and professor and chair at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University
Bryan Stevenson is Executive Director and Founder of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a private, nonprofit law organization that focuses in the context of criminal justice reform in the United States. In 1995, he was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship Award Prize. He is also a 1989 recipient of the Reebok Human Rights Award, the 1991 ACLU National Medal of Liberty, the 2000 Olaf Palme Prize in Stockholm, Sweden for international human rights. He is the author of the bestselling memoir ‘Just Mercy’ (2014).